Chilling with Brent Beshara
BY Ainsley Hawthorn
As I watch Brent use a broomstick to shatter the layer of ice coating the pond, I feel a pang of terror. What have I gotten myself into? I’m standing…
Q and A with Writer and Artist Katie Vautour
BY NQ
Katie Vautour’s debut poetry collection, An Unorthodox Guide to Wildlife, has just been released by Breakwater Books. NQ caught up with the author (and director of Piper’s Frith Writing Retreat)…
Volatile Vulnerability in Pepa Chan’s Brush
BY Eva Crocker
Pepa Chan’s Brush is installed in a secluded corner of The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery. The small gallery suits the exhibition, which uses the act of hair brushing to explore…
Q & A with writer Terry Doyle
BY NQ
Could you tell us a little about yourself? Oh dear. I am from the Goulds (Goulds Rules) and I was born in 1982, I’m told that means I’m neither GenX…
Clean-Up
BY Molly Clarke
We’re trying to sell the house because none of us want to live here. We have our jobs and our lives and our houses with open concept designs. We all…
MAKING NEWFOUNDLAND’S SOLDIERS: THE NEWFOUNDLAND REGIMENT, THE BRITISH ARMY, AND TRAINING FOR BATTLE, 1914-1915
BY Dr Mike O’Brien
In early October 1914, the first contingent of the recently-raised Newfoundland Regiment left St John’s for England on SS Florizel, after having undergone a month of basic training at a…