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.
Root Cellars and Flying Fish: the Bonavista Biennale
Biennales happen in big cities: Venice, Istanbul, São Paulo, Berlin. So the idea of a ‘Bonavista Biennale’ sounds incongruous, something like proposing Woodstock at Woody Point, or an Olympics at Ochre Pit Cove.
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.
Clarence Birdseye Eats His Way Through Labrador
OF ALL the animals Clarence Birdseye devoured during his three years in Labrador, lynx was the most memorable.
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.
“Walking Even Where No Flowers Grow”
IF WE ALL walked a little more, how would the city change?