George Elliott Clarke - biography, career, poetry
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A revered poet, George Elliott Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, near the Black Loyalist community of Three Mile Plains, in 1960. A graduate of the University of Waterloo (B.A., Hons., 1984), Dalhousie University (M.A., 1989), and Queen’s University (Ph.D., 1993), he is now the inaugural E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. An Assistant Professor of English and Canadian Studies at Duke University, North Carolina, 1994-1999, Clarke also served at the Seagrams Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies at McGill University, 1998-1999, and as a Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia (2002) and as a Visiting Scholar at Mount Allison University (2005). He has also worked as a researcher (Ontario Provincial Parliament, 1982-83), editor (Imprint, University of waterloo, 1984-85, and The Rap, Halifax, NS, 1985-87) social worker (Black United Front of Nova Scotia, 1985-86), parliamentary aide (House of Commons, 1987-91), and newspaper columnist (The Daily News, Halifax, NS, 1988-89, and The Halifax Herald, Halifax, NS, 1992-). He lives in Toronto, Ontario, but he also owns land in Nova Scotia. His many honours include the Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement (1988), Governor-General’s Award for Poetry (2001), the National Magazine Gold Medal for Poetry (2001), the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award (2004), and the prestigious Trudeau Fellow Prize (2005).
Poetry Books
* Illuminated Verses. Canadian Scholars Press ; Kellom Press, 2005.
* Blue. [poems] Vancouver : Polestar, 2001. 157 p. ISBN: 1551924145
* Execution poems : the Black Acadian tragedy of "George and Rue." [poems] Wolfville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2001. 44 p. ISBN: 1894031482
Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, 2001
* Lush dreams, blue exile. [poems] Porter’s Lake, N.S.: Pottersfield Press, 1994. 95 p. ISBN: 0919001831
* Whylah Falls. [poems] Winlaw, B.C.: Polestar Press, c1990 159 p. ISBN: 0919591574
* Saltwater spirituals and deeper blues. [poems] Porters Lake, N.S. : Pottersfield Press, 1983. 96 p. ISBN: 0919001130; ISBN: 0919001122
Editor of Anthologies
* Eyeing the north star : directions in African-Canadian literature. Edited by George Elliott Clarke. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, c1997. 268 p. ISBN: 0771021259
* Fire on the water : an anthology of black Nova Scotian writing. Edited by George Elliott Clarke. Porter’s Lake, N.S.: Pottersfield, c1991-1992. 2 v. ISBN: 091900167X; ISBN 0919001718
* Border lines : contemporary poems in English. Edited by J.A. Wainwright, George Elliot Clarke and others. Mississauga, Ont.: Copp Clark, 1995. 465 p. ISBN: 0773053425
Other
* Québécité: A Jass Fantasia in Three Cantos,Gaspereau Press, 2003.
* George & Rue: A Novel, HarperCollins, 2004; Secker & Warburg, 2005; Carroll & Graf, 2006.
* Beatrice Chancy. [play].Victoria, B.C. : Polestar Book Publishers, c1999. 157 p. .ISBN: 1896095941
* Odysseys home : mapping African-Canadian literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 491 p. ISBN: 0802043763 (bound) ISBN: 0802081916 (pbk.)
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