Settling Down and Setting Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian Black British Women's Writing
Comparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women’s writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends discourses of diaspora and postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing. While these concepts have recently gained theoretical currency, this book argues that they are not always adequate frameworks through which to understand second […]
Red
Red joins George Elliott Clarke’s previous ‘colouring’ books Blue and Black in which he displays an expansive range of poetic forms and rhetorical poses.
Portia White: A Portrait in Words
In his unique brand of spoken word, Africadian poetry, the incomparable George Elliott Clarke explores a personal subject: his great-aunt Portia White.
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.
Lasso the Wind: Aurelia's Verses and other Poems
Lasso the Wind is the first collection of children’s poetry by renowned poet and playwright George Elliott Clarke. By turns absurd, witty, playful, and profound, Clarke’s poems speak to the vivid wonder, the bright joys, and the secret pains of growing up in this world.