The Echoing Years completes a trilogy of anthologies combining the poetry of Ireland and Newfoundland and Labrador. The Backyards of Heaven (2003) and However Blow the Winds (2004) have sold out. This new volume expands its coverage to poetry from across Canada, including French-Canadian (partly in translation) and Aboriginal work, published since 1980. It contains 172 poets, (87 Canadian, 85 Irish), and includes translations/versions of Dante, Virgil, and eastern European poets.
"The Echoing Years is the third of these wonderful collaborative anthologies from Newfoundland-Labrador and Ireland. …Between them these volumes amount to an endlessly compelling cabinet of poetry." – Bernard O?Donoghue, Oxford