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November 2018
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Wash Day
BY Sheila Hallett
In the early 1960s, me, my Mom, Dad (who was mostly absent because he worked at sea) and my two sisters lived in an upstairs apartment on Church Hill in…
“Seeing your own home in a fresh way can be difficult, and Matthew Hollett does it with grace, humour and intelligence” – review by Monica Kidd
Optic Nerve by Matthew Hollett Brick Books, 2023 $22.95 80 pages Full disclosure. I first became aware of this collection of poetry a few years back, shortly after St John’s…
Making Album Rock
BY Matthew Hollett
You can find such surprising and funny things while digging through archives. The Pilote de Terre-Neuve, published in 1869, is full of dollhouse-like illustrations of Newfoundland’s coastline, complete with tiny ships and houses. I also came across a sea captain’s letter to his daughter, in which he describes “seven little gulls recently hatched” that he is attempting to raise.