SALTWATER SPIRITUALS AND DEEPER BLUES George Elliott Clarke Porters Lake (NS), Potterfield Press, c1983. 96pp, paper, $6.95. ISBN 0-919001-13-0. Grades 10 and up. Reviewed by Barbara Jaques. Volume 11 Number 6. 1983 November. Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues is a collection of poetry by a twenty-three-year-old Nova Scotia born black, George Elliott Clarke. His style is unique, echoing his deep spirituality and feeling for the history of his people. The poems are divided into three sections: "Soul Songs," given the titles of various Nova Scotian African churches; "Blues Notes," dedicated to various people, places, and ideas; and "The Book of Jubilee," delving into personal and black history. After each section is a series of photographs. The introduction, by Sylvia Hamilton, contains a background of the author and a history of blacks in Nova Scotia. George Elliott Clarke's poetry appeals to all the senses and rolls nicely off the tongue when reading, as evidenced by the poem "Childhood," from "The Book of Jubilee":          field niggers moaned tidewater blues,          endless, endless sorrow songs,          all my livelong, lovelorn youth,          and i was spiritualized          by cornhusker poets          hollering melody from rivers and rocks,          pulling rhythm from ploughs and earth,          finding words in hoes, horses, whores,          the chink, clink, of chains,          the apple-brandy slur-speech of horseback preachers          bell-gabble and rain-whisper . . .          all was music melancholy,          all sang, "many thousands gone;          none comin' back"          but when august baked berries black,          then tambourine and timbrel tintinnabulation          sounded jubilee; all sang          joy-joined: "all i want in dis creation          is a pretty little girl and a big          plantation. Recommended for purchase. Barbara Jaques, Dalhousie R. H. S., Dalhousie, NB.