Articles, short stories, poetry, and essays in anthologies
Alphabet, in its issue of August 1966, published one poem illustrated with wood engravings by G. Brender à Brandis.
A Miscellany of Prints & Poems. This anthology contains four poems by Marianne, and many wood engravings by G. Brender à Brandis. (The Brandstead Press, Carlisle, Ontario, Canada, 1970.)
"The Christmas Candlestick", a short story published in Family Circle in December 1972.
Four poems in From a Chosen Land: a Dutch-Canadian Anthology, compiled by Hendrika Ruger, published by The Netherlandic Press, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1986.
An untitled article in Canadian Children's Literature, No. 48, 1987.
"Rebellion: The Back of the Tapestry", an article published in Canadian Children's Literature, #84 (Winter 1996).
“Past Present: Imagining and Writing History”, in The New Quarterly, #84, Fall 2002.
“Virgin Crone”, an essay in Dropped Threads 2, published by Vintage Canada (Random House) in 2003
Between November 2011 and January 2014, Marianne wrote 24 articles about issues relating to the revitalization of the Market Square in her current hometown of Stratford, Ontario. They were published in the Stratford Gazette and can be found on the Market Square’s website.
“Drawing with Light: Rosemary Kilbourn, wood engraver,” first published in Block & Burin, the newsletter of the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN), Autumn 2018. Also available as a free-standing chapbook.
“Links with the world: the Dutch Training Camp in Stratford during WWII,” published in January 2021 on the website of the Stratford and District Historical Society.
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“Artist at Work: Gerard Brender à Brandis, Wood Engraver and Bookwright.”
A bookwright is someone who makes books – the physical objects themselves. Gerard, one of Canada’s foremost wood engravers, is also one of its best-known creators of limited-edition handmade books. This professional biography describes his work and its roots in many traditions, and the lifestyle that he has created as the foundation and context that make the work possible. It is illustrated with 25 of his wood engravings and 12 photographs, and it includes a checklist of his books.
Though officially “only” an article, this biography is in fact about 80 pages in length. It appears in DA, A Journal of the Printing Arts, Number 64, Spring/Summer 2009, published by The Porcupine’s Quill. Copies of this issue of DA may be available from the Porcupine’s Quill.
Please note that this biography has now been revised and updated, and has been published as Books by Hand.
This is Gerard sketching the Grand River for our book The Grand River / Dundalk to Lake Erie. For further information about his work, please go to Gerard's website.