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	An Unimpoverished Style: the poetry of George Elliott Clarke
		For Clarke, to whom erased villages, abandoned homesteads, and lost nations are present in history, the "boulder-barren, stone-strewn soil" of Canada, like its language, is not naked.
		Clarke's instinct for visually just but fresh imagery gives originality to the Old English or Dylan Thomas style of linking nouns and adjectives in strong stresses and falling rhythms: "incandescent angels/ whirling in crayon blaze" ("The Stars are Winged Creatures Over a Blue World," section V from The Book of Jubilee).
		One of Clarke's finest poems, "The Emissaries," shows what Clarke can do when allowing his understanding of imagery and emotion to create the poem, to become pure poetry, what Robert Frost meant by "poetry" when he called it what could not be translated into a different sound.
	www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol16/lane.htm (2653 words)

	George Elliott Clarke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Elliott Clarke (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet and playwright.
		Clarke's work largely explores and chronicles the experience and history of the Black Canadian community of Nova Scotia, creating a cultural geography that Clarke often refers to as Africadia.
		Clarke is a great-nephew of the late Canadian opera singer Portia White, politician Bill White and labour union leader Jack White.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Elliott_Clarke (292 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Books - Book Review: George Elliott Clarke’s George & Rue (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George provides the hammer and draws the taxi driver into their lives on that fateful day, but he is sick with guilt before the deadly incident.
		George wants to spring his wife and child free, but he doesn’t want to kill his friend, and while he is agonizing about it, his brother steps in and does the job.
		Once the brothers are caught in the steel trap of the law, George grovels at the feet of the police and the court, pleading innocence, blaming his brother, insisting that his own hand did not strike the fatal blow.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/books/georgeandrue.html (1434 words)

	Imprint: January 27, 2006
		George Elliott Clarke, a renowned poet and graduate from the University of Waterloo, returned to speak to St. Jerome's to students as part of the public lecture reading series supported by the Canadian Arts Council.
		Clarke is currently a professor at the University of Toronto, writes a column for the Halifax Herald and is a freelance contributor to numerous publications.
		Clarke says that he âworries that not enough fl people are aware of their own historical progress.â Black History Month, he says, is important as it tells âfl people themselves to remember.â It also âasks larger society to celebrate and respect achievements and contributions of African heritage.
	imprint.uwaterloo.ca /story.php?story=7955 (838 words)

	George Elliott Clarke -- Québécité (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Québécité is an expanded, poetic rendering of a libretto George Elliott Clarke wrote at the request of the Guelph Jazz Festival, with music composed by Juno award-winning pianist D.D. Jackson.
		George Elliott Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
		Clarke won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in 2001 for Execution Poems, published by Gaspereau Press.
	www.gaspereau.com /clarke.html (313 words)

	George Elliott (Canadian writer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He should not be confused with novelist George Elliott Clarke, British novelist George Eliot, British screenwriter George Anthony Elliott or American poet George P. Elliott.
		Elliott attended the University of Toronto, where he was an editor for the student newspaper, The Varsity.
		Elliott published his first novel, The Kissing Man, in 1962.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Elliott_(Canadian_writer) (138 words)

	WFNS: George Elliott Clarke
		George Elliott Clarke was born in the Black Loyalist community of Windsor Plains, Nova Scotia, and raised in Halifax.
		The son of William and Geraldine Clarke, Clarke holds an Honours B.A. in English from the University of Waterloo, an M.A. in English from Dalhousie University and a Ph.D. in English from Queen's University.
		George's poetry is written in a lyrical style, frequently alluding to religious, Black Loyalist heritage.
	www.writers.ns.ca /Writers/gclarke.html (673 words)

	The Bukowski Agency - George and Rue (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brothers George and Rufus Hamilton, in what was supposed to be a simple robbery, drunkenly bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with a hammer.
		George Elliott Clarke has written a horrific — and horrifically funny — story that is also infused with a sensual, rhythmical beauty.
		George and Rufus are as vivid, unforgettable, haunting characters as I have ever met.
	www.thebukowskiagency.com /GeorgeAndRue.htm (767 words)

	Review - Blue by George Elliott Clarke
		Clarke then lists the poets he considers his precursors ("I pursued poets who immolate themselves in the inferno of witnessing"): Syl Cheney-Coker, Wanda Coleman, Henry Dumas, Allen Ginsberg, Irving Layton, Ezra Pound, and Derek Walcott.
		To accuse Clarke of heated, overblown rhetoric would be, of course, to miss the point.
		Clarke is blatant in his use of High Romantic tropes and supremely unanxious about his more immediate modernist precursors, notably Auden: "Poetry makes nothing happen." How interesting, how odd, how wonderful and dangerous all at the same time.
	www.danforthreview.com /reviews/poetry/geclarke_blue.htm (726 words)

	Amazon.ca: George and Rue: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Asa, father to George and Rufus, describes his wife, Cynthy: "Dependin on light, she was tawny and mahogany and dusky and chocolate and coffee an coconut and brass and bronze and rosy.
		George and Rufus are born into grinding poverty in a fl New Brunswick community.
		George is not very bright, and consequently doesn't get into too much trouble, though he does some time for breaking and entering.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0002255391 (445 words)

	Laughing out loud: profile of George Elliott Clarke
		At the time of his McGill stint, Clarke was on leave from his post at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he was an assistant professor of English and Canadian studies.
		Clarke's opera is the retelling of The Cenci, an Italian story of a young woman who kills her father after he forces her into a sexual relationship.
		What inspires Clarke is the humour and humanity with which many fls have faced and overcome adversity and obstacles living their lives in Canada.
	www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca /bin/000221a.asp (1224 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Review: George and Rue by George Elliott Clarke
		The Hamiltons were born and died in New Brunswick, but Clarke's account of their lives is a fiction which cuts back and forth between the experiences of the two brothers, and climaxes when they unite to commit their final crime.
		In a postscript, Clarke points out that he is also related to a number of distinguished fl Canadian artists, and offers his justification for viewing Canadian history from the perspective of his Hamilton cousins.
		The novel, however, makes nothing of the complexity of their actual heritage and its context, and Clarke's story is much too narrow in its scope to support the weight of his claims to diasporic and universal significance.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1675020,00.html (897 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Books \| George & Rue, by George Elliott Clarke (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Elliott Clarke's assured debut novel draws on the same family history--the story of his first cousins George and Rufus Hamilton, hanged in 1949 for robbing and murdering a white taxi driver in Fredericton, New Brunswick--that netted him a Governor General's Award for poetry in 2001 for Execution Poems.
		Clarke's fertile imagery embraces the expected pastoral inspirations--"the sun cringed amid the kitchen's kerosene and cranky smoke," "each drop was noisy ointment for flowers.
		In the opening pages' description of the crime, Rue thinks "The hunger in his gut was, he figured, much worse than any maybe pain he did." And in George's actual jailhouse journal, excerpted near the novel's end, he writes of the good food in custody, an anchor for the familiar tragedy of hunger becoming anger.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=7933 (318 words)

	George Elliott Clarke: Saltwater Spirituals
		George Elliott Clarke is a widely acclaimed Canadian writer and a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.
		Born and raised in Nova Scotia, he is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, Dalhousie University and Queen's University.
		Copyright © 2002 by George Elliott Clarke, Ronald Tetreault, and the class members of English 4010.
	etc.dal.ca /clarke/index_std.html (144 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: George and Rue: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1949, George and Rufus Hamilton bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with a hammer in the dirt-poor settlement of Barker's Point, New Brunswick.
		George and Rue's brutal act lives on in New Brunswick over half a century later, where the murder site is still known as "Hammertown".
		George Elliott Clark draws from this disturbing chapter in Canadian history in his first novel, brilliantly reimagining the lives - and deaths - of the two brothers.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1843432609 (345 words)

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		George E. Clarke invited the audience to "sit back, relax and be fl" while he delivered energetic readings from his seventeen-character novel in poetic form, Whylah Falls (1990).
		Professor Clarke and Clarke closed out the evening with a brief discussion about the historic silence around race in Canada which has helped to sustain a utopian version of Canadian national identity vis-a-vis the persistent specter of race in the US national imagination.
		Clarke who concurs with Paul Gilroy's assessment that "slavery is the moment when Africans enter into technology." George Clarke insists, however, that although technology is not innocent -- is in fact capitalistic and imperialistic -- it is a means of projecting into the future racial and cultural specificity.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /csblac/newslet/fall98/csf9810.html (1335 words)

	Beatrice Chancy - George Elliott Clarke (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Clarke forces the reader to face the subject of slavery and acknowledge its presence in our history.
		The subject of slavery has, in the past, been hidden beneath the folds of historical texts, but in Beatrice Chancy the characters are thrust upon the stage with a force that cannot be denied.
		In this moving drama, Clark asserts himself as a master of poetry.
	www.unb.ca /bruns/0001/issue11/entertainment/book2.html (299 words)

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		George & Rue by George Elliott Clarke (2006)
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	CBC Radio \| The Current \| Whole Show Blow-by-Blow
		Austin Clarke is regarded as one of Canada's foremost novelists and one of the country's best chroniclers of what happens when race and politics intersect.
		But Austin Clarke was also a trailblazer in African-Canadian politics---a fl man from Barbados who ran for Ontario's provincial parliament---under the Progressive Conservative banner.
		George Elliott Clarke signed off on today's program with a personal note with one his poems, called "Pierre Elliott Trudeau - Elegy".
	www.cbc.ca /thecurrent/2005/200504/20050429.html (1032 words)

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		Professors Austin Clarke, George Elliott Clarke, and Kali Tal were the presenters for the seminar.
		George Elliott Clarke delivered readings from his novel Whylah Falls, and presented a folktale "The Disintegrating Husband." Professors Clarke and Clarke concluded the evening with a discussion about the historical silence that surrounds race in Canada.
		Austin Clarke and George Elliott Clarke were joined by Kali Tal (University of Arizona) for Wednesday's roundtable, "Virtual Nation: Tec(know)logy, Culture, and "Colored" Censorship at Century's End." Houston Baker served as moderator.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /csblac/newslet/fall98/csf981.html (310 words)

	Alibris: George Elliott Clarke
		Brothers George and Rufus Hamilton, in a robbery gone wrong, drunkenly bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with a hammer.
		George Elliott Clarke identifies the literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues for its relevance to both African Diasporic...
		A passionate play about poets and the lies they tell in the pursuit of love, Whylah Falls turns on two episodes of betrayal, involving murder and infidelity, after which a woman chooses to love and a man chooses to be faithful.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/George_Elliott_Clarke (487 words)

	CALABASH
		George Elliott Clarke is the 2001 recipient of the Governor General's Award for Execution Poems (Gaspereau Press).
		Clarke has edited anthologies of African-Canadian writing, and in 2002 the University of Toronto Press released his critical study, Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature.
		In 2005 HarperCollins Canada and Secker and Warburg in the UK released his first novel, George and Rue, which carries endorsements from Howard Norman, Alistair Macleod, and Austin Clarke.
	www.calabashfestival.org /authors/george.htm (173 words)

	Calls for Presentations, Papers, Publications: George Eliot Clarke (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The work of George Elliott Clarke has won awards in addition to critical recognition.
		Among these are the Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement ($25,000 from the Nova Scotia Arts Council), a Bellagio Center Fellowship (1998), the Outstanding Writer in Film and Television Award (2000) and two honorary doctorates: a Doctor of Laws degree (Dalhousie University, 1999) and a Doctor of Letters degree (University of New Brunswick, 2000).
		George Elliott Clarke’s lecture, “If there’s no dancing: Art and Social Change” is facilitated by the LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium.
	www.unm.edu /~loboblog/mort/archives/006354.html (254 words)

	Lorenzo Reading Series featuring George Elliott Clarke - Events Calendar
		With his debut novel, George Elliott Clarke adds yet another genre to the list of forms in which he excels.
		Winner of the Governor-General's Award for poetry in 2001 - for 'Execution Poems' - Clarke is a playwright, screenwriter, librettist, anthologist, and literary critic, as well as a poet.
		In 2003, Clarke, the author of four collections of poetry, followed up his acclaimed libretto/verse drama, 'Beatrice Chancy,' with a second libretto, 'Quebecite.' Clarke holds the E.J. Pratt Chair in Poetry at the University of Toronto.
	www.unb.ca /news/event-details.cgi?id=2305 (145 words)

	The Bukowski Agency - George Elliot Clarke (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Clarke is working on his first novel, to be released by HarperFlamingo Canada in 2002.
		George Elliott Clarke has published five books of poetry, two verse-dramas, an opera libretto, and a feature-film screenplay.
		Clarke has received the Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry, the Portia White Prize, and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dalhousie University.
	www.thebukowskiagency.com /SinsAndInnocence.htm (147 words)

	Quill & Quire
		May 2001: In Blue, George Elliott Clarke aims to strike the incendiary note Irving Layton hit when he wrote that âgood poems should rage like a fire/Burning all things.â In case we miss that epigraphâs point, Clarke labels his own poems âfl, profane, surly, American.â He calls himself âa child of napalm.â
		Clarkeâs language as he explores fl history, love affairs, and memory is daring and fun.
		In that department Clarke is impressively effective, teasing out more frissons and tremors in a page than some might do in a career.
	www.quillandquire.com /reviews/review.cfm?review_id=2250 (418 words)

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