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George Elliott Clarke


 

George Elliott Clarke (born February 12 1960) is a Canadian poet and playwright. Born in Windsor Plains, Nova Scotia, he has spent much of his career writing about the black communities of Nova Scotia and served for a time in the African-American Studies department at Duke University. He is currently an English professor at the University of Toronto. In 2001 he won the Governor General's Award for poetry for his book Execution Poems.

Bibliography

Poetry Collections

  • Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues - 1983
  • Whylah Falls - 1990
  • Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems 1978-1993 - 1994
  • Gold Indigoes - 1999
  • Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue - 2001
  • Blue - 2001

Plays

  • Whylah Falls: The Play - 1999
  • Beatrice Chancy - 1999

Novels

  • George and Rue - 2004

Anthologies Edited

  • Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature - 1997
  • Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing (two volumes) - 2002

Academic Books

  • Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature - 2002