None This Tide / Nor Any Tide

November 2022

My Boy Jack, by Rudyard Kipling

“Have you news of my boy Jack?”
Not this tide.
“When d’you think that he’ll come back?”
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide …

Top photo: Newfoundland National War Memorial; above: sculptor Basil Grotto with caribou memorial statue

Dan of the Galapagos (4 of 7)

BY Monica Walsh

Dan is always the nice guy. He is always the one who does the favours, the one who doesn’t’ get the girl, the one who is last to be chosen and first to be bossed around. But that night in Ropewalk Lane, he walked home a different man.

Poetry Canada 150

Falling Leaves Write About Themselves

BY Matthew Hollett

I WANTED TO TRY collaging together a poem from the pages of an old issue of NQ. I chose the Spring 1963 issue because it features the exact same photo of a whitecoat seal that was on the cover in Spring 1962… except with awkwardly-pasted additional seals.

Visual Art

Leyton Gallery decks the walls for their annual Christmas Exhibition,

with gorgeous art, no ho-ho-holding back on the verve or the vibrancy, for ’tis the season for light and colour, and all things that bring joy. Opening tomorrow at The…