Take Me Home
Poems and Photographs from the Edge of Memory
Deborah Bandy
Published by Felicity Buckell, West Road Whole Works
Snow is falling—
How was the drive,
the hill, slippery?
I packed my bags this morning—
waiting for someone,
but who is coming for me?
I speak from the softest place—
Take me home.
—from Ornaments of Memory
About Take Me Home
In Take Me Home: Poems and Photographs from the Edge of Memory, Deborah Bandy traces her aunt’s journey through depression, alcoholism, and dementia.
In tender poems and colour photographs, Bandy captures moments of confusion, clarity, and unexpected grace.
Moving between presence and absence, the book anchors fleeting memories in the textures of landscape, light, and everyday ritual. Part portrait and part elegy, Take Me Home is shaped by love as well as loss — a quiet meditation on the fragile beauty of remembering.
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About Deborah Bandy
Deborah Bandy is a poet and photographer based in Northern Ontario.
Her work explores memory, landscape, and the intimate spaces where emotion meets observation.
Reflections from readers
“A very intimate exploration… A sad but lovely little book.”
—Brit GriffinAuthor of The Haunting of Modesto O’Brien“Every poem in this book evokes this fading sense of longing, of belonging, and of being.”
—Marvyn MorrisonAuthor of Stumbling Through Paradise“The voice of the person with the diagnosis is one we often do not hear. Take Me Home honours that voice with compassion.”
—Tracy Koscamp-BergeronExecutive Director, Alzheimer Society of Timmins-Porcupine DistrictPurchase the book
Hardcover, full-colour book by Northern Ontario poet Deborah Bandy.
In Take Me Home: Poems and Photographs from the Edge of Memory, Bandy traces her aunt’s journey through depression, alcoholism, and dementia.
In tender poems and colour photographs, Bandy captures moments of confusion, clarity, and unexpected grace.
Email felicitybuckell@hotmail.com to arrange for pickup or delivery.
Net proceeds will be donated to the Alzheimer Society.
Available through West Road Whole Works
Haileybury, Ontario
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With the pages turning,
the lost find their way.
—from Bears in the Dark