NQ’s Summer 1980 issue (vol LXXVI, no 2: Price $1.00) included The ‘Newfoundland’ Disaster of 1914: An Interview with Cecil Mouland, a Survivor, by Lieut Calvin Collins. Here’s an excerpt: Introduction On…
Can you tell us a little about yourself and your art practice? I am a multidisciplinary visual artist. I sometimes describe myself as a “serial material monogamist,” meaning that I…
by Donna Morrissey “You’re so smart,” said my friend, Jude, in a crowded bar one night over drinks and smokes. We were sitting in a booth, the four of us…
By Eva Crocker It’s damp early spring and my across-the-hall neighbour, Michael, is stacking smashed car windshields in the hall outside his unit. Michael collects cracked windshields from garages, and…
You are very versatile with literary forms – with the NQ alone you’ve published non-fiction and poetry, and you’re also a novelist, with Last Hummingbird West of Chile just released…
Winter wren Tiny, short-tailed, plain-brown wren with a huge voice. Subtly patterned, with indistinct pale eyebrow and diffuse dark barring on flanks and wings. Constantly keeps tail cocked at an…
Can you talk about the format of this history – it’s almost a scrapbook of news articles, training manuals, personal documents. How did you organize and contextualize all this? This…