Home » Addressing Anti-Black Racism » Recommended Readings & Films » Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems : 1978-1993
Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems : 1978-1993
These poems range from a personal evocation of Black Nova Scotian history to an intense, intimate response to world events in the last thirty years. All are "fugitive poems" evolving from 1979 to 1991.
George Elliott Clarke is a poet, playwright and scholar born in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Other publications from this author include:
- Portia White: A Portrait in Words (2019)
- Locating Home: The First African-Canadian Novel and Verse Collections (2018)
- These Are the Words (2018)
- The Motorcyclist (2017)
- The Merchant of Venice (Retried) (2017)
- Canticles I: (MMXVII) (2017)
- Canticles I: (MMXVI) (2016)
- Gold (2016)
- Extra Illicit Sonnets (2015)
- Traverse (2014)
- Illicit Sonnets (2013)
- Lasso the Wind: Aurelia's Verses and other Poems (2013)
- Red (2011)
- Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature (2011)
- I & I (2009)
- Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke (2008)
- Trudeau: Long March & Shining Path (2007)
- Black (2006)
- George and Rue (2005)
- Illuminated Verses (2005)
- Quebecite (2003)
- Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (2002)
- Execution Poems : The Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue (2001)
- Blue (2001)
- Blue II (2001)
- Gold Indigoes (1999)
- Whylah Falls: A Play (1999)
- Beatrice Chancy (1999)
- Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature (1997)
- Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing, Volume Two (1992)
- Whylah Falls (1990)