SNIPPET: Edwin John PRATT, one of Newfoundland and Canada's foremost poets, grandson of a sea captain and bred to the sea though he took up the religious and later the academic life, remained always a poet. His moving "Erosion" is just eight lines: "It took the sea a thousand years,/A thousand years to trace/The granite features of this cliff/In crag and scarp and base/ It took the sea an hour one night,/An hour of storm to place/The sculpture of these granite seams/Upon a woman's face." "However Blow The Winds: An Anthology of Poetry and Song from Newfoundland, Labrador and Ireland," (2004) ed. John ENNIS, Randall MAGGS, Stephanie McKENZIE (Scop Productions Inc/Waterford Institute of Technology, gives us an overview of the interlocked song and poetry of both Ireland and Newfoundland, the latter born of the working poor of both Ireland and Britain, but quickly developing a body of culture of its own not uninfluenced by the indigenous Innou tradition of Labrador. This new book is the sister volume from the same people who gave us "The Backyards of Heaven: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from Ireland and Newfoundland and Labrador" (2003). Amongst the earlier material we have the work of Donnchad Rua MacCONAMARA who lived and wrote in Newfoundland in the 18th century A wide range is included - Eibhlin Dubh Ni CHONAILL, Brian MERRIMAN, W. B. YEATS, Enos WATTS, Sean O'RIORDAN, John MONTAGUE, Mary DALTON, John STEFFLER and Al PITTMAN. A particular focus of the anthology is the folklore-related ballad. So high prized is this cultural expression that almost every Newfoundland Bay and inlet has its own particular favourite - sometimes more than one." ISBN 0-9540281-2-0, P/b Can $40.00/25.00 euros. -- Review, "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine published in Dublin. .