Ellen Birkett Morris pays attention to detail and always picks just the right word. Her poems are a joy to read and soulful. To read one of the poems in Surrender is to look into the heart.
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
Birkett's poetry is homespun and elegant at the same time. Her bittersweet images linger in your mind and call you to reread.
–Lois Barr, Author of Isaac Unbound and professor of Spanish at Lake Forest College
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
In Surrender, Ellen Birkett Morris shows us love and loss from adolescence to age in images that pierce to the heart: a long-married couple makes love on "sheets / soft with age," a daughter waves from her first school bus with a "purple gloved hand," a poor man dreams "worn shoe-leather dreams." These short poems sometimes seem deceptively quiet, but each shines as softly burnished as a pearl.
–Sherry Chandler, author of Weaving a New Eden and Dance the Black-eyed Girl.
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]