A Storm Message
January 2020
Keep safe & warm. Check on your neighbours. NQ back online next week.
More than groceries in Susan Flanagan’s shopping cart
I’ve read that John Hughes was inspired to write Home Alone after momentarily losing track of one of his children. While I’m sure you’ve never left a supermarket with someone…
“The arts, storytelling, it’s a confrontation with the wrongs of the world.”: Richard Greene releases Cannibal Rats
Congratulations on your new poetry collection – I found it an intimate and rich read. And the arrangement of poems feels very elegant. I had a good editor, Michael Prior,…
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…