Member Profile

George Elliott Clarke

Clarke
Photo: Julie Morin 1992

George Elliot Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1960. He studied at the University of Waterloo, Dalhousie, and Queen's. Always a poet, now also a playwright and screenwriter.

E-mail: Member-226@no-mail.no-mail
Phone number:
c/o Writers' Union of Canada

Publications

Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature. editor. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997.
Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems, 1978-1993. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press, 1994.
Whylah Falls. Victoria, BC: Polestar, 1990.

Awards

Portia White Prize, 1998.
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship, 1998.
Archibald Lampman Award for Whylah Falls, 1990.
Poetry Award, Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, 1981.
Eligible for National Public Readings Program :
Yes

WITS

Presentation Length:
60 min.
Genre:
Poetry, Non-Fiction
Grades:
9-12
Audience size:
60
Northern OAC WITS:
No
Two sessions:
$200
Four sessions:
$300
Two sessions:
$100
Four sessions:
$150
GST:
GST not applicable