George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke is a revered artist in song, drama, fiction, screenplay, essays and poetry. His publications include titles in Braille, Chinese, Italian, and Romanian. The inaugural E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto, Clarke has taught at Duke, McGill, the University of British Columbia, and Harvard. His recognitions include the Bellagio Center Fellowship (US), the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellows Prize, the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry, the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry, the Premiul Poesis (Romania), the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry (US), Encyclopedic Poetry School: International Fellow (China), and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award.



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Red
George Elliott Clarke

2011 / Poetry / $19.95
9781554470983 / Trade paper / 160 pp


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. Its poems mix the candid sexuality of pre-Christian Rome with the pop sentimentally of Italian screen scores of the 1960s and 70s, drenching us in the brute violence of Titus Andronicus, the reflections of Malcolm X and the music of Charles Mingus (whose “bass sounds like a typewriter/Punctuating Ulysses”). Whether he situates his reader in his father’s Halifax cab, on a beach in Rhodes, or in front of Alma Duncan’s painting Young Black Girl, Clarke is ever sensitive to “the hard work of words,/The even harder work of love.” Red rings with Clarke’s lush voice, full-throated and unparalleled.



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Other Books by this Author

White
George Elliott Clarke

2021 / Canadian Poetry / $29.95 CAN
9781554472307 / Trade paper / 256 pp
The Merchant of Venice (Retried)
George Elliott Clarke

2017 / Poetry / $19.95 CAN
9781554471713 / Trade paper / 64 pp
Gold
George Elliott Clarke

2016 / Poetry / $21.95 CAN
9781554471577 / Trade paper / 160 pp
Black
George Elliott Clarke

2012 / Poetry / $21.95 CAN
9781554471034 / Trade paper / 152 pp
Blue
George Elliott Clarke

2011 / Poetry / $21.95 CAN
9781554470990 / Trade paper / 176 pp
Whylah Falls
George Elliott Clarke

2010 / Poetry / $21.95 CAN
9781554470952 / Trade paper / 208 pp
Execution Poems
George Elliott Clarke

2009 / Poetry / $14.95 CAN
9781554470815 / Trade paper / 48 pp
Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path
George Elliott Clarke

2007 / Poetry / $21.95 CAN
9781554470372 / Trade paper / 128 pp
Québécité
George Elliott Clarke

2003 / Poetry / $39.95 CAN
9781894031752 / Fine / 112 pp
Québécité
George Elliott Clarke

2003 / Poetry / $18.95 CAN
9781894031745 / Trade paper / 112 pp
Africadian History: An Exhibition Catalogue
George Elliott Clarke

2001 / Poetry / $4.95 CAN
9781894031523 / Pamphlet / 16 pp
Execution Poems
George Elliott Clarke

2001 / Poetry / $12.95 CAN
9781894031486 / Trade paper / 48 pp

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