Matthew Hollett

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Making Album Rock

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.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Iceberg

I'VE BEEN READING After Icebergs with a Painter, Rev. Louis L. Noble’s imaginative travelogue from a voyage around Newfoundland in 1859. It’s like following a jet-setting paparazzo’s Instagram – except instead of celebrity photos, it’s full of nineteenth-century prose portraits of icebergs.

Falling Leaves Write About Themselves

I WANTED TO TRY collaging together a poem from the pages of an old issue of NQ. I chose the Spring 1963 issue because it features the exact same photo of a whitecoat seal that was on the cover in Spring 1962… except with awkwardly-pasted additional seals.

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Falling Leaves Write About Themselves

I WANTED TO TRY collaging together a poem from the pages of an old issue of NQ. I chose the Spring 1963 issue because it features the exact same photo of a whitecoat seal that was on the cover in Spring 1962… except with awkwardly-pasted additional seals.