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BY NQ
Summer is here, and so is another issue of Newfoundland Quarterly! This time, we’re exploring the idea of composition: we’re putting things and ideas together, seeing how one concept, stitch…
Inis Oírr iii
BY Heather Nolan
when the ferry gets in island folks line up along the dock offering tours in the family car faces eroded by the rain. horses wait hitched to carriages. every hour…
“Bee”lieve in the Newfoundland honey bees
BY Melissa Wong
Honey bees are threatened by habitat loss, pesticides, herbicides, parasites, and disease. Newfoundland, Western Australia and the Isle of Man are the only three places where they are safe from…
Chanterelles
BY Heidi Wicks
“Matilda,” her father told her once, “there’s this one kind of mushroom, they look a whole lot like chanterelles, but let it be known – they’re not chanterelles. They’re called Jack-o’-Lanterns and they make a person quite sick.”
Mary Pratt: “Why Do People Paint Pictures?”
BY Newfoundland Quarterly Magazine (Print)
Hearing a painter you love describe how, and why, they create is a rare treat. Indeed, it is fitting that the Winter 2011-2012 NQ issue containing this article (adapted from…
No place for women: Hilda Dove in the Arctic
BY Maura Hanrahan
In 1930, a Newfoundland woman celebrated her 20th birthday in Greenland. Her smile was wide as she posed for the camera. She was on board a ship skippered by Robert…
Memory
BY Florence Button
Shining dully from the coffers of the soul Leaning hard against the heart. Mute testimony. Memories from the moulds of yesterday. A silent, siren call Glimpses of sacred…