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

“Seeing your own home in a fresh way can be difficult, and Matthew Hollett does it with grace, humour and intelligence” – review by Monica Kidd

Optic Nerve by Matthew Hollett Brick Books, 2023 $22.95 80 pages Full disclosure. I first became aware of this collection of poetry a few years back, shortly after St John’s…

Elisabeth de Mariaffi: “Any thriller is a survival story”

Even in the opening pages of The Retreat, the stakes are already so high for your main character, Maeve. She’s recently out of an abusive marriage, she’s away from her…

Non-Fiction Canada 150

RESURRECTING THE GREAT AUK

BY Drew Brown

The Great Auk got a raw deal. Setting its cloned Razorbill-hybrid progeny down on Funk Island as an act of atonement is a tempting proposition. Easing our collective guilt aside, a resurrected Auk could be an economic boon. Every cove and tickle would put in an ACOA grant to host a penguin hatchery.