![]() ![]() The documentary was to mark the 100 th anniversary of the disaster. A voice in my head was already repeating, “say no, say no, say no.” The sealing disaster is one of the most iconic, and complicated, events in Newfoundland history. A generation ago, Gracie Joe’s had been a funeral parlour. We were sitting directly across the street from Her Majesty’s Penitentiary. NFB producer Annette Clarke first talked to me about a documentary on the 1914 Newfoundland sealing disaster at a St. Michael is the writer of the forthcoming NFB short animated film 54 Hours, a vivid account of a 1914 tragedy in which 132 men were stranded on the ice during a severe snowstorm off the coast of Newfoundland. His poetry collections include Arguments with Gravity (1996), Hard Light (1998) and Under the Keel (2013). His debut novel, River Thieves (2001), was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Michael is a Canadian poet and writer whose work often draws on the history and landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador. ![]() This is a guest post written by Michael Crummey. ![]()
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