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Jacqeuline Potter author of By Surf and By Stream

 



Jacqueline Potter is an American writer whose third book
By Surf and By Stream, Illustrated Poems, Stories and Reflections was planned for browsing. It’s lush with black-and-white period photos and dozens of pen-and-ink drawings by her artist husband Elliott Potter. He did several of the drawings many years ago, including the cover pen-and-ink of sea birds soaring above the surf breaking on Forest Beach at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, as above.

During the same period Jacqueline wrote and published her "beach
poems," other poetry and creative nonfiction in Hilton Head's Islander magazine. Everyone in the couple's Midwest family loved their carefree two-week vacation retreats on the island within a few steps of the gentle beach and Atlantic surf.

That happened before Jacqueline published two soft cover novels for Jove under a pen name, novels which were translated into five other languages and enjoyed sales of more than 100,000 copies worldwide. By Surf and By Stream is a collection of her shorter works and reveals more about the author than anything else she has produced. Before publication three years ago, the nature-loving couple worked together creating new material, new drawings, revising and refining the anthology, which they designed for 2-minute escapes and retreats.   

In By Surf and By Steam, you find nature poems, water and beach poems, love poems, nonfiction brief short stories about summers with Grandma and Grandpa on the farm, and narrative poems and reflections about outdoor family fun on coasts and ocean beaches, and floating, canoeing and camping on Ozark streams and rivers not far from her home. Jacqui tells 1930s stories, 1940s stories and early day courtship stories. She includes her reflections on relationships with friends and family, the spiritual path each person can discover, and the healing power and contentment she finds outdoors by water in the heart of the natural world of birds, animals, trees, flowers and all growing things.

Some titles from the collection:

Roaring River Memories                  
On Every Beach                               
Your Eyes                                         
Elegy for Kay                                   
Autumn Day on Elk River              
Creating                                          
The Fire of Love                             
Enchanted Islands                         
The Farm on Spring River           
Morning, Skyline Ridge               
Non-Cool Me                                
Back to the Sea Again                 
Canyon de Chelly                       
What I Am                                    
Harvesting                                   
Stormy Nights on the Farm       
The Front Porch Swing             
A Burst of Blue 
Taste My Grandma's    
   Delicious Recipes

Spring River Saga (nonfiction stories)
Early Days (1890-1930)
Treasure at Hilton Head
Sunday Morning on the Beach
Waiting to Make Camp
Grandfather of the Oregon Coast
A Place to Play
Secrets of the Deep
Awakened at Dawn
Whence Cometh These Loves?
Morning on Forest Beach
Proposal Rock
May/June
Why and How I Write
First Light
The World We Live In
Delie, the Grandma I Knew
For Elliott
Addiction to the Rose,
  The War of the Roses, Poetry and Prose
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Exquisite, that's what "By Surf and By Stream" is—what beautiful drawings, too. A perfect collaboration! Nancy Hemry, author and photographer.

A haunting, insightful realism is brought to life by the author. She touches on the ups and downs of life in a rhythmic cadence that speaks to your soul. Sylvia Mendoza, author of The Book of Latina Women

This is truly poetry to feed the soul. Inspiring and impressive. -- B.J. Mitchell, author The Secret of Hilhouse

What a treasure! A wonderful collection. Elliott Potter's drawings are lovely and perfect.--Suzanne Wilson, Artist-in-Residence and nature writer

Nature/Regional/Poetry/Reflections     ISBN-13: 978-0-9728349-0-2     $13.95 (Canada $17.00)
The book is perfect for gifts, vacations, for bedside tables at home, guest rooms, second homes or condos at the beach, lake, mountains, in your RV or on a cruise. Many of the reflections, poems and nonfiction stories are short and light-hearted, while others are longer, sometimes more thoughtful and meditative, sometimes nostalgic or humorous. You will know instinctively who will appreciate and enjoy this book.


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Poet, novelist,
essayist, speaker
and storyteller



Photographs and
Elliott Potter's drawings

Elliott Potter's matted PRINTS are now available for purchase at
Koka Art Gallery
409 S Main St
Carthage, MO
417-358-2889

 

  

 

By Surf and by Stream is composed of reflections and poems of many forms, lengths and subjects, as well as sixty pages of nonfiction stories about the author's pioneer grandmother and her childhood years at her grandparents' farm on Spring River, with historic photos, maps and ten of her grandmother's favorite recipes."
           

Check out Grandma's Delicious Recipes .
Click on Book Excerpts and scroll to end.

Visit the News Page to learn about Jacqueline Potter's latest publications and events. Find out how to contact her for media interviews and possible 2010 and 2011 talks and workshops for your organization, conference or conventions.
 

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