Another major literary project which boasts of the connection between Newfoundland and Labrador and Ireland. However Blow the Winds: An Anthology of Poetry and Song from Newfoundland and Labrador and Ireland is the companion piece to The Backyards of Heaven, a collection of Irish and Newfoundland poetry which was launched earlier. One of the most exciting and challenging aspects of this anthology is the creative interweaving of material from one culture to another. Wisely broad in its selections-ballads, folk songs, laments, songs of the sea, spinning songs, narratives, dialect material, anonymous works - it illuminates very different worlds and, at the same time, connects them through its varied and imaginative portrayals of human experience.