All the Joys of the Season
December 2023
Enjoy your Holidays, and visit us again in the New Year (NQ already has some great posts lined up!).
Salt
BY Samantha Carroll
It doesn’t seem fair To call it “New” or “Found” When its been waiting With weathered salted wisdom For as long as dark rocks have held line after line Of…
Sending Up Kites
BY Matthew Hollett
NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY was founded in 1901, the same year Marconi flew a 500-foot kite on Signal Hill and intercepted the first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission. The second-oldest magazine in Canada, NQ began as “a literary magazine of interest to Newfoundlanders at home and abroad,” which is not far off the way it describes itself today, as “a cultural journal of Newfoundland and Labrador.” That’s a remarkable persistency of purpose over 116 years.
“To give attention to something you really have to be kind of egoless”: a conversation with Lisa Moore and Eva Crocker
“Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up…