Published Works
The personal stories in White's ten editions of A Woman's Almanac (1987-1996) were published in The Finest Kind, a compendium of Almanac stories. Other published works include the biographical book Not A Still Life, the art and writings of artist Rae Perlin; a History of Newfoundland and Labrador published by Grolier Ltd., as a part of their Canadian series on the provinces, and Skinny Dipping her first book of poetry. White’s second book of poetry, Mind Your Eyes, wase released by Creative Books in Fall 2003. She is currently working on a sensuous feast of a novel called Ah Paris! that takes place in Newfoundland and Paris, France.
To obtain copies of any of the books below contact Marian or her publicist, Donna Francis, at this email address: dfrancis@printatlantic.comMIND YOUR EYES BY MARIAN FRANCES WHITE
Click image above for enlarged viewMind Your Eyes is Marian Frances White's second book of poetry. Through her direct yet subtle voice that is carved from the elemental longing of life in Newfoundland, White takes us on a journey through the secrets of her ancestral survival, to travels that conjure up the beauty of a Jamaican night, or a communion with the Greek gods and goddesses.
In Mind Your Eyes there is an underlying current of belonging to a global community, one where a poem can take us to an encounter with forbidden love and back to the watchful eye of a lover. In the three sections of Mind Your Eyes, there is room for readers to move in, get comfortable, and make themselves at home.ISBN: 1-894294-60-2, 96 Pages, 5.5 X 8.5 paper
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1991 Not A Still Life - Editor
The art and writings of artist Rae Perlin
Killick Press, NF:
Over 100 art reproductions of artwork are presented here by a woman who has created visual art, wrote essays and commentary since the 1930's.
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1992 The Finest Kind, Writer / Editor
A compendium of seventy-two Almanac profiles.
"The personal accounts of women's lives, their hopes and their determination is very powerful writing which we have seldom been privy to in the past"
Evening Telegram
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1995 The Eldamar Cookbook, a fine vegan cuisine
Published by Creative Publishers, NF
Eldamar Cookbook celebrates a vegetarian lifestyle with tasty, healthy recipes, glossary of food items and an introduction by Greg Malone
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1996 Skinny Dipping, White’s first book of poetry
Published by gynergy books, P.E.I.White rips superficialities from language, seeking the palpitating energy of verbs - both crude and deluxe, the crucial heart of poetry.
George Elliot Clarke
The Chronicle
Poetry
St. Mary’s Bay
Shameless affectionate gannets
mate by the thousands
before ageless granite
hills green with victory
they have won a corner of the world
no small wonder
why here
and not the next ocean erect cliff
another age old question
unanswerable
the sheep baa to the gannet grrr
tourists leave
speechless
lens closed
past patches of open irisMarian Frances White
2 stanzas, 15 lines
(taken from Mind Your Eyes)Book Binders
Spines press
into a futon
our layers unfold
like leaves of a book
we bind our wor(l)d
shape the dialogue within our bodies
title our forehead for lovers’ eyes
press our lips to hold our wor(l)d
our fingers the thread that writes
the lines of our skin like prologues
using sandpaper to curve this fiction
made rough from a lifetime of leather drafts
the tools we use to shape this day
this body binding hour
are not clamps or hammers or punches
but finishing tools – our bodies
the hot plate that supports the cradle
our bodies the press boards thick enough
to not warp this story
our bodies make book binders
eager to work
long into the night
Marian Frances White
from Skinny Dipping, 1996
