All the Joys of the Season, & safe and happy holidays to all!
December 2024
NQ will take a break as well – we’ll meet back here in January 2025; we already have exciting stuff lined up!
A Feast of Green
We’re coming up to St Patrick’s Day, which by tradition brings Sheila’s Brush; a snowstorm that follows on the heels of the saint’s day, one hopefully the last of the…
Q & A with Poet Lindsay Bird
BY NQ
What inspires your poetry? Maybe it’s a bit of a boring answer, but I definitely draw from the everyday when I write. Poetry, for me, is often a way to…
The Healers
BY Shannon Webb-Campbell
While I was home in Newfoundland this past summer, I was given a copy of a series of graphic novels by David Alexander Robinson dubbed Tales from Shadow River, illustrated stories about Indigenous people (Highwater Press). The Healer: Mary Webb, retells the life of my paternal great-great-grandmother, Mary Webb, a Mi’kmaq healer and midwife to 700 babies around Bay St Georges on NL’s west coast.