Acorn Press Canada

0-894838-00-9 - 88 pp - 6 x 9 - pb - $15.95 CAD

Poetry by Dianne Hicks Morrow

Long Reach Home is a celebration of the many ways we humans are blessed and betrayed by our emotions, our bodies and by those we love. Deceptively simple, Morrow's poems reveal more and more with every reading.
-- Bernice Morgan - Random Passage and Waiting for Time

Exploring the literal and metaphoric landscapes of the past, the vagaries of family, and the knocks of time and fate, Dianne Morrow writes with a delicate, hands-off touch, trusting the images and anecdotes to work their own effect; ironies emerge naturally, and not infrequently, with epigrammatic bite. Her sharp eye never strays from the pangs and follies of life, but her warm voice and abundant generosity allow her to negotiate their challenges while cultivating the best in human nature.
-- Brent MacLaine - author of Wind & Root

A book of wisdom, grace and gratitude. Morrow's voice is authentic and her vision compassionate as she meditates and questions, celebrates and remembers. Her characters will linger. The lyricism and truth of her words reach out and take us all home.
-- Sheree Fitch - author of In This House Are Many Women and Toes in my Nose

Here are love poems, to family and friends, to places and to the imperfect body. If you've been away (or just missing a friendly voice), pull up a chair—here, close to the fire—and enjoy being back home again.
-- Kate Braid - author of Inward to the Bones: Georgia O'Keefe's Journey with Emily Carr

Like a mirrored globe, Dianne Hicks Morrow's book of poetry refracts and reflects a lifetime of experiences—the glint of pain in overheard conversations, the lifelong search for balance and trust, a poignant sense of childhood difference, the absolution that children and parents withhold from each other. Especially fine is the "Polio Kick" series, which concludes with yet another "sparkling gem of memory."
-- Maureen Hynes - author of Rough Skin and Harm's Way

Dianne Hicks Morrow's Long Reach Home is a very personable, plainspoken, heart-felt reminiscence about love, living with physical challenges (her polio, her mother's blindness), the Island, and no regrets. Here feminism is Maritimes-candid and no-nonsense, along with a greatness of heart and the clarity of honesty.
-- George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Sunday Herald, 5 May '02

Dianne Hicks Morrow's Maritime roots (conceived in Newfoundland, growing up on Long Reach, along the St. John River, and currently residing on Prince Edward Island) figure prominently: an acute awareness of the land and its elemental importance to the lives of its inhabitants threads throughout the book and informs its ethos.
-- Kjeld Haraldsen, The New Brunswick Reader, Telegraph Journal, 20 June '02

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