George Elliott Clarke
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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.
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Clarke's Whylah Falls was one of the selected books in the 2002 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by Nalo Hopkinson.
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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
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