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George Elliott Clarke

January 01, 1970

George Elliott Clarke, OC ONS (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto[1] from 2012 to 2015, and as the 2016–2017 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.[2] His work is known for its use of a wide range of literary and artistic traditions (both "high" and "low"), as well as its physicality and political substance. One of Canada's most illustrious poets, Clarke is also known for chronicling the experience and history of the Black Canadian communities of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography that he has coined "Africadia."

George Elliott Clarke
OC ONS
Clarke in 2018.36
Born (1960-02-12) February 12, 1960 (age 64)
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
NationalityCanadian
EducationQueen Elizabeth High School
Alma materUniversity of Waterloo; Dalhousie University; Queen's University
Occupations
  • Writer
  • poet
  • academic
Known forPoet Laureate of Toronto (2012–2015); Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016–2017)

Life edit

Clarke was born to William and Geraldine Clarke in Windsor, Nova Scotia,[3] near the Black Loyalist community of Three Mile Plains, and grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He graduated from Queen Elizabeth High School in 1978.[4]

He earned a BA honours degree in English from the University of Waterloo (1984), an MA degree in English from Dalhousie University (1989) and a PhD degree in English from Queen's University (1993). He has received honorary degrees from Dalhousie University (LL.D.), the University of New Brunswick (Litt.D.), the University of Alberta (Litt.D.), the University of Waterloo (Litt.D.), and most recently, Saint Mary's University (Litt.D). He taught English and Canadian Studies at Duke University from 1994 to 1999 and was appointed the Seagrams Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies at McGill University for the academic year 1998–1999.[5]

In 1999, he became professor of English at the University of Toronto, where, in 2003, he was appointed the inaugural E J Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature. Clarke has also served as a Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia (2002), as a visiting scholar at Mount Allison University (2005), and as the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at Harvard University (2013–14); and, outside of the academic sphere, as a researcher for the Ontario Provincial Parliament (1982–83), editor of the Imprint (University of Waterloo, 1984–85) and The Rap (Halifax, 1985–87), social worker for the Black United Front of Nova Scotia (1985–86), parliamentary aide to Howard McCurdy (1987–91), and newspaper columnist for the Halifax Daily News (1988–89).[6]

Clarke is a well-known conference speaker and active in poetry circles throughout Canada, the US, the Caribbean, and Europe. He is also a founding member of the music collective Afro-Métis Nation, which put out its first album, Constitution, in May 2019. The group derives its name from the artists' mixed Africadian and Mi'kmaq descent. Clarke has described the group's sound as "a mash-up of southern-fried blues and saltwater spirituals, with Nashville guitars, Mi’kmaw-and-“African” drums, Highland bagpipes and Acadien fiddles."[7]

Writing career edit

Clarke is recognized both for his own works, including seventeen collections of poetry, two novels, and four works of drama and opera, as well as for collecting and promoting stories of African-Canadian writers and poets in anthologies and studies such as Border Lines (1995), Eyeing the North Star (1997), Odysseys Home (2002), Fire on the Water (2002), Directions Home (2012) and Locating Home (2017). His artistic influences stretch from Shakespeare to Miles Davis, from Ezra Pound to Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Malcolm X. It is from the intersections of these thinkers of all periods of history that Clarke's later work draws much of its power. His style, with its embrace of the vernacular, lends itself well to the bold, passionate performances for which he is well known. His poetic and academic careers overlap in their particular emphasis on the perspectives of the African descendants in Canada and Nova Scotia, especially the African-American slaves’ descendants who settled on the East coast of Nova Scotia, whom he calls "Africadian." He writes that it is a word that he "minted from 'Africa' and 'Acadia' (the old name for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick), to denote the Black populations of the Maritimes and especially of Nova Scotia."[8]

Some of his poetry has also been set to music by the a cappella gospel quartet Four the Moment.[9]

He views "Africadian" literature as "literal and liberal—I canonize songs and sonnets, histories and homilies."[8] Clarke has stated that he found further writing inspiration in the 1970s and his "individualist poetic scored with implicit social commentary" came from the "Gang of Seven" intellectuals, "poet-politicos: jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, troubadour-bard Bob Dylan, libertine lyricist Irving Layton, guerrilla leader and poet Mao Zedong, reactionary modernist Ezra Pound, Black Power orator Malcolm X and the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau."[10] Clarke found "as a whole, the group's blunt talk, suave styles, acerbic independence, raunchy macho, feisty lyricism, singing heroic and a scarf-and-beret chivalry quite, well, liberating."[10] His poetry and scholarship, which address and challenge historic encounters with racism, segregated areas, discrimination, hatred, forced relocation and a loss of a sense of identity and belonging experienced by the Black populations of Canada, have earned him worldwide acclaim.

In his anthology Fire On The Water, Clarke uses a biblical timeline stretching from Genesis to Psalms and Proverbs to Revelation to present Black writings and authors born within a specific period. These names reflect the Africadians’ and other Black peoples’ forebears and the first singers' own preferences for singing "the Lord’s song in this strange land."[8] In his most recent book, These Are the Words, a collaboration with Canadian Poet John B. Lee, Clarke translates one of the nine books of the Bible's apocrypha into a vigorous English vernacular.[11] It is a prime example of his wide and open poetic sensibility, in which the spiritual and the sensual have equally their parts.

His intellectual contributions involve both his ability to combine literary criticism and theatrical forte and his continuance of the themes of cultural inclusiveness and Canadian iconic symbolism. In his 2007 play Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path, Clarke features his Liberal hero Trudeau (1919–2000) describing him as "the Shakespearean character: a figure about whom it is almost impossible to say anything definitive because he is encompassed by so many contradictions, but that’s what makes him interesting." In presenting a multicultural Trudeau on the international stage, Clarke seeks to capture the human dimensions, the personality of Trudeau, rather than his politics, so as to emphasize the dialogues among key characters and "show the people as people, not just exponents of ideas."[12] In 2012 Clarke was given substantial critical recognition in a volume devoted to the body of his writing, Africadian Atlantic: Essays on George Elliott Clarke, edited by Joseph Pivato.

In his 2016 and 2017 collections of poems, the names of which, Canticles I (MXXVI) and Canticles I (MMXVII), are a reference to Ezra Pound's The Cantos and The Song of Solomon, Clarke puts famous thinkers, explorers and rulers of the 17th, 18th and 20th Centuries into a dialogue on slavery and heritage. Together, these collections make up the first part of a projected three-part epic. Canticles II: MMXIX was released in 2019.[13]

In his time as Poet Laureate of Toronto, Clarke created the Poets' Corner at City Hall, and worked with the Toronto Public Library to create the Toronto Poetry Map, an electronic map of the city that marks all sites referenced in Canadian poetry, and presents the relevant lines to the viewer. He also founded the East End Poetry Festival. For these accomplishments he is credited with expanding the role and responsibilities of the Poet Laureate. Clarke similarly expanded the role of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate during his tenure, becoming the first to have his poems recited in the Houses and recorded in Hansard.[14]

Family edit

Clarke is a great-nephew of the late Canadian opera singer Portia White, politician Bill White and labour union leader Jack White. A seventh-generation African Canadian, Clarke is descended from African-American refugees from the War of 1812 who escaped enslavement in America to the British and were relocated to Nova Scotia. He is the great grandson of William Andrew White, an American-born Baptist preacher and missionary, army chaplain, and radio pioneer, who was one of the very few black officers in the British army worldwide during World War I. Clarke also has Mi'kmaq Indigenous ancestry.

Awards and merits edit

In 1998 Clarke won the Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement. In 2001, he won the Governor General's Award for poetry for his book Execution Poems, as well as the National Magazine Gold Medal for Poetry. He has also won the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award (2004), the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship Prize (2005-2008), the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction (2006), and the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry (2009).[15]

Clarke was appointed to the Order of Nova Scotia in 2006, and to the Order of Canada, at the rank of Officer, in 2008.

On January 16, 2008 Clarke was made an honorary Fellow of the Haliburton Literary Society, the oldest literary society in North America, at the University of King's College, Halifax; and in 2009 he was a co-recipient of the William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations from the City of Toronto for his outstanding achievements and commitment in making a distinct difference in racial relations in Toronto. Clarke was chosen expressly for "his local and national leadership role in creating an understanding and awareness of African and black culture and excellence in his contribution to redefining culture."[16]

In November 2012, Clarke became Toronto's fourth Poet Laureate.[17][18]

In January 2016, Clarke became Canada's seventh Parliamentary Poet Laureate.[19] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/nahanni-fontaine-george-elliott-clarke-poems-1.5415924

In 2018, thanks to a gift from Ms. Rebecca Gardiner, the George Elliott Clarke Scholarship Fund was established at Duke University.[20]

His 2021 book J'Accuse! (Poem versus Silence) was shortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Award for poetry.[21]

In 2022, Clarke was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for his significant service to the province of Nova Scotia in the field of the Arts.[22]

Bibliography edit

  • "To Paris, Burning," In Constance Rooke (ed.), Writing Away: the PEN Canada Travel Anthology, McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1994.
  • Kamboureli, Smaro (1996), Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literature. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 491
  • Tracey, Lindalee (1999), A Scattering of Seeds: The Creation of Canada. Toronto: McArthur & Company
  • Africadian Atlantic: Essays on George Elliott Clarke. ed. Joseph Pivato. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2012. ISBN 978-1-55071-627-6

Poetry edit

Plays edit

Novels edit

Memoir edit

  • 2021: Where Beauty Survived

Written Anthologies

  • 2023: Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness Nova Scotia, Véhicule Press, ISBN 9781550656077

Anthologies edited edit

  • 1991: Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing, Volume One. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield, ISBN 0-919001-67-X
  • 1992: Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing, Volume Two. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield, ISBN 0-919001-71-8
  • 1995: Border Lines: Contemporary Poems in English. Edited by J.A. Wainwright, George Elliot Clarke and others. Mississauga, Ont.: Copp Clark, 1995. ISBN 0773053425
  • 1997: Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997 ISBN 0-7710-2125-9
  • 2018: Locating Home: The First African-Canadian Novel and Verse Collections. Tightrope Books, 2018. ISBN 1988040213

Criticism edit

  • 2002: Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0-8020-8191-6
  • 2011: Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-0-8020-9425-4

Awards edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Poet Laureate". City of Toronto. May 20, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  2. ^ "George Elliott Clarke, Nova Scotia Writer, Named Parliamentary Poet Laureate" January 8, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. The Canadian Press via The Huffington Post, January 5, 2016.
  3. ^ Compton, Anne (1998). "Standing Your Ground: George Elliott Clarke in Conversation". Studies in Canadian Literature. 23 (2). Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  4. ^ Kimber, Stephen (July 26, 2007). "High times". The Coast.
  5. ^ "George Elliott Clarke". Athabasca University. May 20, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  6. ^ "George Elliott Clarke". Squarespace. May 20, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  7. ^ "The Afro-Metis Nation "Constitution" Project". AfroMetis. May 20, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  8. ^ a b c Clarke, George Elliott, Fire on the Water: Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing, Volume One (1991), Porters Lake, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield Press.
  9. ^ "Four the Moment". The Canadian Encyclopedia, February 7, 2006.
  10. ^ a b "Gaspereau Press - Home Page". www.gaspereau.com. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
  11. ^ Clarke, George Elliott; Lee, John B. "These Are the Words". Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  12. ^ "Trudeau perfect subject for new opera, Clarke says". cbc.ca. July 12, 2006. from the original on May 10, 2007. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
  13. ^ "Canticles I (mmxvii) : George Elliott Clarke". Guernica Editions. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  14. ^ "A Parliament of Poems: An Interview with Parliamentary Poet, George Elliott Clarke". blog.pshares.org. February 11, 2017.
  15. ^ "MA in the Field of Creative Writing Program Faculty | Biographies". Department of English. Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
  16. ^ "Poetry That Speaks Truth to Power". April 11, 2014.
  17. ^ "Council appoints George Elliott Clarke Toronto's new Poet Laureate". City of Toronto. November 28, 2012. Retrieved September 4, 2013.
  18. ^ "The bizzaro history of the poet laureate" November 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, July 7, 2016. Bruce Demara.
  19. ^ "The Parliament Poet Laureate". Parliament of Canada. January 5, 2016. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
  20. ^ "Full Biography". George Elliott Clarke.
  21. ^ "15 poetry books shortlisted for 2022 ReLit Awards". CBC Books, May 2, 2022.
  22. ^ "Professor George Elliott Clarke was presented with The Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Medal". Department of English. Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto. November 22, 2023. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
  23. ^ . Archived from the original on September 8, 2009.

External links edit

  • George Elliott Clarke Papers University of Toronto

Further reading edit

  • Nora Tunkel: Tracing the Lyrics of the Unvoiced: G. E. Clarke, in Tunkel, Transcultural imaginaries. History and globalization in contemporary Canadian literature. Winter, Heidelberg 2012, S. 169–178. = Doct. thesis, Universität Wien, 2009

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This article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject s importance use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance February 2024 Learn how and when to remove this message George Elliott Clarke OC ONS born February 12 1960 is a Canadian poet playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto 1 from 2012 to 2015 and as the 2016 2017 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate 2 His work is known for its use of a wide range of literary and artistic traditions both high and low as well as its physicality and political substance One of Canada s most illustrious poets Clarke is also known for chronicling the experience and history of the Black Canadian communities of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick creating a cultural geography that he has coined Africadia George Elliott ClarkeOC ONSClarke in 2018 36Born 1960 02 12 February 12 1960 age 64 Windsor Nova Scotia CanadaNationalityCanadianEducationQueen Elizabeth High SchoolAlma materUniversity of Waterloo Dalhousie University Queen s UniversityOccupationsWriter poet academicKnown forPoet Laureate of Toronto 2012 2015 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate 2016 2017 Contents 1 Life 2 Writing career 3 Family 4 Awards and merits 5 Bibliography 5 1 Poetry 5 2 Plays 5 3 Novels 5 4 Memoir 5 5 Anthologies edited 5 6 Criticism 6 Awards 7 See also 8 References 9 External links 10 Further readingLife editClarke was born to William and Geraldine Clarke in Windsor Nova Scotia 3 near the Black Loyalist community of Three Mile Plains and grew up in Halifax Nova Scotia He graduated from Queen Elizabeth High School in 1978 4 He earned a BA honours degree in English from the University of Waterloo 1984 an MA degree in English from Dalhousie University 1989 and a PhD degree in English from Queen s University 1993 He has received honorary degrees from Dalhousie University LL D the University of New Brunswick Litt D the University of Alberta Litt D the University of Waterloo Litt D and most recently Saint Mary s University Litt D He taught English and Canadian Studies at Duke University from 1994 to 1999 and was appointed the Seagrams Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies at McGill University for the academic year 1998 1999 5 In 1999 he became professor of English at the University of Toronto where in 2003 he was appointed the inaugural E J Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature Clarke has also served as a Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia 2002 as a visiting scholar at Mount Allison University 2005 and as the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at Harvard University 2013 14 and outside of the academic sphere as a researcher for the Ontario Provincial Parliament 1982 83 editor of the Imprint University of Waterloo 1984 85 and The Rap Halifax 1985 87 social worker for the Black United Front of Nova Scotia 1985 86 parliamentary aide to Howard McCurdy 1987 91 and newspaper columnist for the Halifax Daily News 1988 89 6 Clarke is a well known conference speaker and active in poetry circles throughout Canada the US the Caribbean and Europe He is also a founding member of the music collective Afro Metis Nation which put out its first album Constitution in May 2019 The group derives its name from the artists mixed Africadian and Mi kmaq descent Clarke has described the group s sound as a mash up of southern fried blues and saltwater spirituals with Nashville guitars Mi kmaw and African drums Highland bagpipes and Acadien fiddles 7 Writing career editClarke is recognized both for his own works including seventeen collections of poetry two novels and four works of drama and opera as well as for collecting and promoting stories of African Canadian writers and poets in anthologies and studies such as Border Lines 1995 Eyeing the North Star 1997 Odysseys Home 2002 Fire on the Water 2002 Directions Home 2012 and Locating Home 2017 His artistic influences stretch from Shakespeare to Miles Davis from Ezra Pound to Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Malcolm X It is from the intersections of these thinkers of all periods of history that Clarke s later work draws much of its power His style with its embrace of the vernacular lends itself well to the bold passionate performances for which he is well known His poetic and academic careers overlap in their particular emphasis on the perspectives of the African descendants in Canada and Nova Scotia especially the African American slaves descendants who settled on the East coast of Nova Scotia whom he calls Africadian He writes that it is a word that he minted from Africa and Acadia the old name for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to denote the Black populations of the Maritimes and especially of Nova Scotia 8 Some of his poetry has also been set to music by the a cappella gospel quartet Four the Moment 9 He views Africadian literature as literal and liberal I canonize songs and sonnets histories and homilies 8 Clarke has stated that he found further writing inspiration in the 1970s and his individualist poetic scored with implicit social commentary came from the Gang of Seven intellectuals poet politicos jazz trumpeter Miles Davis troubadour bard Bob Dylan libertine lyricist Irving Layton guerrilla leader and poet Mao Zedong reactionary modernist Ezra Pound Black Power orator Malcolm X and the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau 10 Clarke found as a whole the group s blunt talk suave styles acerbic independence raunchy macho feisty lyricism singing heroic and a scarf and beret chivalry quite well liberating 10 His poetry and scholarship which address and challenge historic encounters with racism segregated areas discrimination hatred forced relocation and a loss of a sense of identity and belonging experienced by the Black populations of Canada have earned him worldwide acclaim In his anthology Fire On The Water Clarke uses a biblical timeline stretching from Genesis to Psalms and Proverbs to Revelation to present Black writings and authors born within a specific period These names reflect the Africadians and other Black peoples forebears and the first singers own preferences for singing the Lord s song in this strange land 8 In his most recent book These Are the Words a collaboration with Canadian Poet John B Lee Clarke translates one of the nine books of the Bible s apocrypha into a vigorous English vernacular 11 It is a prime example of his wide and open poetic sensibility in which the spiritual and the sensual have equally their parts His intellectual contributions involve both his ability to combine literary criticism and theatrical forte and his continuance of the themes of cultural inclusiveness and Canadian iconic symbolism In his 2007 play Trudeau Long March Shining Path Clarke features his Liberal hero Trudeau 1919 2000 describing him as the Shakespearean character a figure about whom it is almost impossible to say anything definitive because he is encompassed by so many contradictions but that s what makes him interesting In presenting a multicultural Trudeau on the international stage Clarke seeks to capture the human dimensions the personality of Trudeau rather than his politics so as to emphasize the dialogues among key characters and show the people as people not just exponents of ideas 12 In 2012 Clarke was given substantial critical recognition in a volume devoted to the body of his writing Africadian Atlantic Essays on George Elliott Clarke edited by Joseph Pivato In his 2016 and 2017 collections of poems the names of which Canticles I MXXVI and Canticles I MMXVII are a reference to Ezra Pound s The Cantos and The Song of Solomon Clarke puts famous thinkers explorers and rulers of the 17th 18th and 20th Centuries into a dialogue on slavery and heritage Together these collections make up the first part of a projected three part epic Canticles II MMXIX was released in 2019 13 In his time as Poet Laureate of Toronto Clarke created the Poets Corner at City Hall and worked with the Toronto Public Library to create the Toronto Poetry Map an electronic map of the city that marks all sites referenced in Canadian poetry and presents the relevant lines to the viewer He also founded the East End Poetry Festival For these accomplishments he is credited with expanding the role and responsibilities of the Poet Laureate Clarke similarly expanded the role of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate during his tenure becoming the first to have his poems recited in the Houses and recorded in Hansard 14 Family editClarke is a great nephew of the late Canadian opera singer Portia White politician Bill White and labour union leader Jack White A seventh generation African Canadian Clarke is descended from African American refugees from the War of 1812 who escaped enslavement in America to the British and were relocated to Nova Scotia He is the great grandson of William Andrew White an American born Baptist preacher and missionary army chaplain and radio pioneer who was one of the very few black officers in the British army worldwide during World War I Clarke also has Mi kmaq Indigenous ancestry Awards and merits editIn 1998 Clarke won the Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement In 2001 he won the Governor General s Award for poetry for his book Execution Poems as well as the National Magazine Gold Medal for Poetry He has also won the Dr Martin Luther King Jr Achievement Award 2004 the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship Prize 2005 2008 the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction 2006 and the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry 2009 15 Clarke was appointed to the Order of Nova Scotia in 2006 and to the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer in 2008 On January 16 2008 Clarke was made an honorary Fellow of the Haliburton Literary Society the oldest literary society in North America at the University of King s College Halifax and in 2009 he was a co recipient of the William P Hubbard Award for Race Relations from the City of Toronto for his outstanding achievements and commitment in making a distinct difference in racial relations in Toronto Clarke was chosen expressly for his local and national leadership role in creating an understanding and awareness of African and black culture and excellence in his contribution to redefining culture 16 In November 2012 Clarke became Toronto s fourth Poet Laureate 17 18 In January 2016 Clarke became Canada s seventh Parliamentary Poet Laureate 19 https www cbc ca news canada manitoba nahanni fontaine george elliott clarke poems 1 5415924In 2018 thanks to a gift from Ms Rebecca Gardiner the George Elliott Clarke Scholarship Fund was established at Duke University 20 His 2021 book J Accuse Poem versus Silence was shortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Award for poetry 21 In 2022 Clarke was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for his significant service to the province of Nova Scotia in the field of the Arts 22 Bibliography edit To Paris Burning In Constance Rooke ed Writing Away the PEN Canada Travel Anthology McClelland amp Stewart Inc 1994 Kamboureli Smaro 1996 Making a Difference Canadian Multicultural Literature Toronto Oxford University Press pp 491 Tracey Lindalee 1999 A Scattering of Seeds The Creation of Canada Toronto McArthur amp Company Africadian Atlantic Essays on George Elliott Clarke ed Joseph Pivato Toronto Guernica Editions 2012 ISBN 978 1 55071 627 6 Poetry edit 1983 Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues Lawrencetown Beach Nova Scotia Pottersfield ISBN 0 919001 12 2 1990 Whylah Falls Vancouver Polestar ISBN 0 919591 57 4 revised edition 2000 ISBN 1 896095 50 X 1994 Lush Dreams Blue Exile Fugitive Poems 1978 1993 Lawrencetown Beach Nova Scotia Pottersfield ISBN 0 919001 83 1 1999 Gold Indigoes Durham Carolina Wren ISBN 0 932112 40 4 2001 Execution Poems The Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue Wolfville Nova Scotia Gaspereau Press ISBN 1 894031 48 2 2001 Blue Vancouver Polestar ISBN 1 55192 414 5 2001 Blue II A Trestle Chapbook in Running With Scissors Montreal Cumulus Press ISBN 0 9683529 4 4 2005 Illuminated Verses Toronto Canadian Scholars Press ISBN 1 55130 280 2 2006 Black Vancouver Polestar ISBN 1 55192 903 1 2008 Blues and Bliss The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke Wilfrid Laurier University Press ISBN 1554580609 2009 I amp I Fredericton Goose Lane ISBN 978 0 86492 513 8 2011 Red Gaspereau Press ISBN 9781554470983 2013 Lasso the Wind Aurelia s Verses and Other Poems Illus Susan Tooke Nimbus Books ISBN 1771080507 2013 Illicit Sonnets Eyewear Publishing ISBN 978 1908998064 2014 Traverse Exile Editions ISBN 1550963953 2015 Extra Illicit Sonnets Exile Editions ISBN 1550964984 2016 Gold Gaspereau Press ISBN 9781554471577 2016 Canticles I MMXVI Guernica Editions ISBN 9781550719123 2017 Canticles I MMXVII Guernica Editions ISBN 9781771831901 2017 The Merchant of Venice Retried Kentville Nova Scotia Gaspereau Press 2018 These Are the Words Collaboration with John B Lee Hidden Book Press ISBN 978 1 927725 55 9 2019 Portia White A Portrait in Words Nimbus Publishing ISBN 1771086971 2021 J Accuse Poem versus Silence Plays edit 1999 Whylah Falls The Play Toronto Playwrights Canada ISBN 0 88754 565 3 1999 Beatrice Chancy Vancouver Polestar ISBN 1 896095 94 1 2003 Quebecite Wolfville Nova Scotia Gaspereau Press ISBN 1 894031 74 1 2007 Trudeau Long March Shining Path Kentville Nova Scotia Gaspereau Press ISBN 1 55447 037 4 Novels edit 2005 George and Rue Toronto HarperCollins ISBN 0 00 225539 1 ISBN 0 00 648569 3 2016 The Motorcyclist Toronto HarperCollins Memoir edit 2021 Where Beauty Survived Written Anthologies 2023 Whiteout How Canada Cancels Blackness Nova Scotia Vehicule Press ISBN 9781550656077 Anthologies edited edit 1991 Fire on the Water An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing Volume One Lawrencetown Beach Nova Scotia Pottersfield ISBN 0 919001 67 X 1992 Fire on the Water An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing Volume Two Lawrencetown Beach Nova Scotia Pottersfield ISBN 0 919001 71 8 1995 Border Lines Contemporary Poems in English Edited by J A Wainwright George Elliot Clarke and others Mississauga Ont Copp Clark 1995 ISBN 0773053425 1997 Eyeing the North Star Directions in African Canadian Literature Toronto McClelland amp Stewart 1997 ISBN 0 7710 2125 9 2018 Locating Home The First African Canadian Novel and Verse Collections Tightrope Books 2018 ISBN 1988040213 Criticism edit 2002 Odysseys Home Mapping African Canadian Literature Toronto University of Toronto Press ISBN 0 8020 8191 6 2011 Directions Home Approaches to African Canadian Literature Toronto University of Toronto Press ISBN 978 0 8020 9425 4Awards edit1979 Honourable Mention Atlantic Writing Competition Adult Poetry Writers Federation of Nova Scotia 1981 First Prize Atlantic Writing Competition Adult Poetry Writers Federation of Nova Scotia 1983 Second Prize Bliss Carman Poetry Award Banff Centre 1991 Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry Ottawa Independent Writers 1998 Portia White Prize Nova Scotia Arts Council 1998 Bellagio Center Fellow Rockefeller Foundation New York City 1999 Alumni Achievement Award University of Waterloo 2002 Governor General s Award for Poetry for Execution Poems National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry 2004 Martin Luther King Jr Achievement Award Black Theatre Workshop 2006 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship Prize Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation 2006 Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction 2006 Frontieras Poesis Premuil Prize Poesis Magazine International Poetry Festival Satu Mare Romania 2006 Order of Nova Scotia 2007 Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award for George and Rue 2008 Officer of the Order of Canada 23 2009 Shortlisted Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction 2010 Shortlisted Acorn Plantos Award for People s Poetry 2012 Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Acadia University 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 2012 Excellence in the Arts Award Canadian Civil Liberties Association 2012 Appointed by the Toronto City Council to the post of Poet Laureate of Toronto 2016 Appointed by The Parliament of Canada to the post of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award Dalhousie University Alumni Association 2017 Trailblazers Award National Black Canadians Summit Federation of Black Canadians amp Michaelle Jean Foundation 2017 Elected Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical SocietySee also edit nbsp Poetry portal nbsp Biography portal nbsp Canada portal Acadia Canadian literature Canadian poetry List of Canadian poets List of Canadian writers List of University of Waterloo peopleReferences edit Poet Laureate City of Toronto May 20 2019 Retrieved May 20 2019 George Elliott Clarke Nova Scotia Writer Named Parliamentary Poet Laureate Archived January 8 2016 at the Wayback Machine The Canadian Press via The Huffington Post January 5 2016 Compton Anne 1998 Standing Your Ground George Elliott Clarke in Conversation Studies in Canadian Literature 23 2 Retrieved June 6 2013 Kimber Stephen July 26 2007 High times The Coast George Elliott Clarke Athabasca University May 20 2019 Retrieved May 20 2019 George Elliott Clarke Squarespace May 20 2019 Retrieved May 20 2019 The Afro Metis Nation Constitution Project AfroMetis May 20 2019 Retrieved May 20 2019 a b c Clarke George Elliott Fire on the Water Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing Volume One 1991 Porters Lake Nova Scotia Pottersfield Press Four the Moment The Canadian Encyclopedia February 7 2006 a b Gaspereau Press Home Page www gaspereau com Retrieved November 5 2018 Clarke George Elliott Lee John B These Are the Words Retrieved May 21 2019 Trudeau perfect subject for new opera Clarke says cbc ca July 12 2006 Archived from the original on May 10 2007 Retrieved December 26 2019 Canticles I mmxvii George Elliott Clarke Guernica Editions Retrieved May 21 2019 A Parliament of Poems An Interview with Parliamentary Poet George Elliott Clarke blog pshares org February 11 2017 MA in the Field of Creative Writing Program Faculty Biographies Department of English Faculty of Arts amp Science University of Toronto Retrieved August 5 2023 Poetry That Speaks Truth to Power April 11 2014 Council appoints George Elliott Clarke Toronto s new Poet Laureate City of Toronto November 28 2012 Retrieved September 4 2013 The bizzaro history of the poet laureate Archived November 5 2016 at the Wayback Machine Toronto Star July 7 2016 Bruce Demara The Parliament Poet Laureate Parliament of Canada January 5 2016 Retrieved January 5 2016 Full Biography George Elliott Clarke 15 poetry books shortlisted for 2022 ReLit Awards CBC Books May 2 2022 Professor George Elliott Clarke was presented with The Queen Elizabeth II s Platinum Jubilee Medal Department of English Faculty of Arts amp Science University of Toronto November 22 2023 Retrieved August 5 2023 Governor General Announces New Appointments to the Order of Canada Archived from the original on September 8 2009 External links editGeorge Elliott Clarke Papers University of TorontoFurther reading editNora Tunkel Tracing the Lyrics of the Unvoiced G E Clarke in Tunkel Transcultural imaginaries History and globalization in contemporary Canadian literature Winter Heidelberg 2012 S 169 178 Doct thesis Universitat Wien 2009 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title George Elliott Clarke amp oldid 1222899017, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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