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I’ll never forget the letter from Pierre Berton urging me to join the Writers' Union. I remember the giddy feeling of being taken for someone who might actually belong to the same club as Berton, Frye, Findley, Mitchell, and Laurence. They’re all gone now, bless them, but TWUC soldiers on. Something grand, something beyond getting that first book published: a community, a career. A life.
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George Elliott 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
