Dianne Hicks Morrow – lisa疯马秀 Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa疯马秀 Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Thu, 06 Jun 2024 11:28:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 Fixing up the Farmhouse /store/fixing-up-the-farmhouse.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fixing-up-the-farmhouse Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:55:53 +0000 /store/fixing-up-the-farmhouse.html/fixing-up-the-farmhouse When Dianne Morrow and her husband, Andy, first saw the ramshackle old farmhouse, they fell in love. What they didn't see was the years of work it would take to make the old house a home. Morrow describes, through essays, journal entries and poetry, the triumphs and the challenges of rebuilding a cozy farmhouse - and nurturing a growing brood of kids and animals. Often humourous, sometimes sad, this is the story of building a home, and a life under the Lindens.

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]]> 54697 Kindred Spirits /store/kindred-spirits.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kindred-spirits Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:51:47 +0000 /store/kindred-spirits.html/kindred-spirits Who is your kindred spirit? Who kindles the fire in your soul?

Driven by curiosity about her own intense friendships and soul-to-soul connections, Dianne Hicks Morrow devoted the last 10 years to asking Atlantic Canadians these questions.

In Kindred Spirits, people as diverse as composer Norman Campbell, lyricist Elaine Campbell, country doctor Jim Bowen, author Sheree Fitch, photographer Freeman Patterson, comedian dentist Marina Sexton, theatre director Duncan McIntosh, minister Elizabeth Stevenson, university president Wade MacLauchlan, and actor Deb Allen reveal their passionate connections to the people, places, and animals that inspire their deepest trust, their most intimate contact, and their unconditional love.

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]]> 54578 What Really Happened is This /store/what-really-happened-is-this.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-really-happened-is-this Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:19:05 +0000 /store/what-really-happened-is-this.html/what-really-happened-is-this This collection of moving poetry puts into words the heartbreak and triumphs of looking after ailing parents.What Really Happened is This is a poetry memoir that focuses on the ten-year journey of an adult "only child" as her beloved parents face declining health and death. The wry, poignant, humorous, and sometimes heartbreaking, poems chronicle the poet's struggle to find balance in her life, as she juggles the needs of her family with her own work and creative life. The poems touch on the universal in specific experiences, as the poet faces the death of each parent, and realizes she is now next in line.

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]]> 53353 Long Reach Home /store/long-reach-home.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=long-reach-home Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:17:03 +0000 /store/long-reach-home.html/long-reach-home Reaching back through a family full of stories and characters, from Newfoundland on her mother's side to New Brunswick on her father's, the poems in Long Reach Home are characteristically personal, warm, and accessible- by turns humorous, by turns enraged- but always engaged with the world, distilling simple pleasures and fundamental human struggles from everyday experience.

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