This page lists the names of those who are describing other texts (novels, movies and other films, songs, poems, and so on) which they connect in some way to the novel The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx.  The title of the associated text is also provided here.

Marilyn Babineau--Bernice Morgan’s Random Passage

Karen Goodey--E. J. Pratt's poem "Newfoundland"

J. Watkins--"Abandoned Outports" by Tom Dawe

Lisa Cameron--Fall on Your Knees by Ann Marie MacDonald

Lori-Ann Harris--"Erosion" and "Newfoundland" by E. J. Pratt (with comments by the Web page author).

Jennifer Gibbons-- an introduction and the "Newfoundland Weather Calendar" are from a 1950 edition of the "Newfoundland Story".

Nancy Parsons--The Way of the Sea and A Whale for the Killing.

Heather Roberts--a poem, "Recipe," by Gordon Rodgers.

Connie Spracklin--House of Hate by Percy Janes.  Connie also connects other texts in her Northern Lights page.

Seamus Stamp--Tom Robbins' Still Life with Woodpecker.

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