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Product Description: Book I of ?The Canticles? puts into dialogue ? as dramatic monologues ? those who fostered the transatlantic slave trade, or who demonized the image of the Negro in the Occident; as well as those who struggled for liberation and/or anti-racism...read more

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9781550719123 | Guernica Editions, August 1, 2016, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Book I of ?

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9781550964981 | Exile Editions, December 1, 2015, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: From Toronto’s poet laureate (2012–15) comes a new book that is a tour de force in confessional verse. This autobiographical sequence in 980 lines contains 70 stanzas of “skeletal sonnets” composed, astonishingly, in one day and one evening...read more

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9781550963953 | Exile Editions, April 1, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From Toronto’s poet laureate (2012–15) comes a new book that is a tour de force in confessional verse.

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Product Description: 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 secrets pains of growing up in this world...read more
By George Elliott Clarke and Susan Tooke (illustrator)

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9781771080507, titled "Lasso the Wind: Auriélia's Verses and Other Poems" | Nimbus Pub Ltd, March 15, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Lasso the Wind is the first collection of children's poetry by renowned poet and playwright George Elliott Clarke.

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Product Description: 'Illicit Sonnets' - a bawdy modern reboot of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Sonnets from the Portuguese' - tells of the love between Salim and Laila, an 'elderessa'. Their highly-sexed romance, bridging cultures, generations and seas, is unfolded in poetry as sparkling and as shameless as champagne...read more

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9781908998064 | Small Pr Distribution, April 24, 2013, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 'Illicit Sonnets' - a bawdy modern reboot of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Sonnets from the Portuguese' - tells of the love between Salim and Laila, an 'elderessa'.

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Product Description: Blistering with defiance, tempered with tenderness and desire, Black is a startlingly passionate collection of poems from one of Canada’s most gifted writers. George Elliott Clarke combines fiery outrage with delicate confessions of love, creating a commentary on soul and culture that is both shocking and transformative...read more

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9781554471034 | Gaspereau Pr, October 30, 2012, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Blistering with defiance, tempered with tenderness and desire, Black is a startlingly passionate collection of poems from one of Canada’s most gifted writers.
9781551929033 | Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, September 30, 2006, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Black is the companion volume to the author’s acclaimed collection Blue.

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Product Description: The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of literature...read more

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9780802091536 | Univ of Toronto Pr, October 1, 2012, cover price $98.00 | About this edition: The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date.

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9780802094254 | Univ of Toronto Pr, September 26, 2012, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date.

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Product Description: Marking the tenth anniversary of the publication of George Elliott Clarke's Blue, this new and revised Gaspereau Press edition reminds us why Clarke has become one of Canada's most read poets. His work is electric, alive, full of fury, beauty and truth...read more

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9781554470990 | Revised edition (Gaspereau Pr, December 31, 2011), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Marking the tenth anniversary of the publication of George Elliott Clarke's Blue, this new and revised Gaspereau Press edition reminds us why Clarke has become one of Canada's most read poets.
9781551924144 | Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, September 1, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This incandescent book subscribes to the adage that "Good poems should rage like a fire, burning all things.

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Product Description: Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet―these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s best work from his early poetry to his most recent, Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke offers readers an impressive cross-section of those voices...read more

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9781554580606 | Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, December 30, 2008, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet―these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke.

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Product Description: In the "Boogie Nights" era of the 1970s, Betty Browning and her lover, boxer Malcolm Miles, travel from the fog-anchored grime of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to sunburnt Corpus Christi, Texas, and back — meeting tragedy and bloodshed along the way...read more

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9780864925138 | Goose Lane Editions, January 1, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the "Boogie Nights" era of the 1970s, Betty Browning and her lover, boxer Malcolm Miles, travel from the fog-anchored grime of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to sunburnt Corpus Christi, Texas, and back — meeting tragedy and bloodshed along the way.

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Product Description: This debut collection of poetry is a plea and a gift from two bright young writers, one from the African Diaspora, the other from Africa. Writing of the most salient of issues and evocative of themes in the African experience, Yannick Marshall and Yemi Aganga use their poetry to argue for Pan-African unity...read more

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9781551303314 | Three O'Clock Pr, May 30, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This debut collection of poetry is a plea and a gift from two bright young writers, one from the African Diaspora, the other from Africa.

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Product Description: George Elliott Clarke’s newest dramatic poem, Trudeau, makes an irreverent, jubilant portrait of the life and politics of one of Canada’s most controversial political heroes, Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Clarke’s poem provides a whimsical and informative look at the balance of world powers in the 1960s and 70s, infused with the spirit of the many revolutions taking place throughout the world during these years...read more

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9781554470372 | Gaspereau Pr, April 30, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: George Elliott Clarke’s newest dramatic poem, Trudeau, makes an irreverent, jubilant portrait of the life and politics of one of Canada’s most controversial political heroes, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

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Product Description: It was, by all accounts,, a “slug-ugly” crime. Brothers George and Rufus Hamilton, in a robbery gone wrong, drunkenly bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with a hammer. It was 1949, and the two siblings, part Mi’kmaq and part African, were both hanged for the killing...read more

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9780786716203 | Carroll & Graf Pub, January 3, 2006, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The writer of the award-winning Execution Poems shares a fictional depiction of the lives and motivations of two ancestral cousins, who suffered underprivileged and violent childhoods and were condemned and hanged by the white community for their role in killing a taxi driver.

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9780786718740, titled "George And Rue" | Carroll & Graf Pub, December 28, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: It was, by all accounts,, a “slug-ugly” crime.

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Product Description: The audio edition of George Elliott Clarke's Whylah Falls retains all the energy and beauty of the original poetic novel. The story surrounds the Clemence family and the village of Whylah Falls, a mythic community in the heart of Black Nova Scotia...read more

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9780070354470, titled "Introduction to Geochemistry" | McGraw-Hill College, February 1, 1979, cover price $89.70 | also contains Introduction to Geochemistry | About this edition: Reflecting rapid changes in knowledge of the earth's chemistry, this new, revised edition is more quantitative and gives more attention to issues.

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9781896095509 | Polestar Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $14.95
9780919591578 | Polestar Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $9.95

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9780864923301 | Abridged edition (Btc Audio Books, August 31, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The audio edition of George Elliott Clarke's Whylah Falls retains all the energy and beauty of the original poetic novel.

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Product Description: Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of the literature and examines its debt to, and synthesis with, oral cultures...read more

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9780802043764 | Univ of Toronto Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $109.00 | About this edition: Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field.

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9780802081919 | Univ of Toronto Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field.

Product Description: 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

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9780919001879 | Abridged edition (Pottersfield Pr, November 1, 2002), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: Award-winning poet and scholar, George Elliott Clarke edits this pioneer collection of passionate, spiritual, earthy and liberating prose, poetry and song.. His first book of poetry, 'Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues' appeared from Pottersfield Press in 1983 and 'Whylah Falls', a second volume, was brought out by Polestar Press in 1990...read more

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9780919001718 | Pottersfield Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Award-winning poet and scholar, George Elliott Clarke edits this pioneer collection of passionate, spiritual, earthy and liberating prose, poetry and song.

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Product Description: Award-winning poet and scholar, George Elliott Clarke edits this pioneer collection of passionate, spiritual, earthy and liberating prose, poetry and song.. His first book of poetry, 'Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues' appeared from Pottersfield Press in 1983 and 'Whylah Falls', a second volume, was brought out by Polestar Press in 1990...read more

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9780919001671 | Pottersfield Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Award-winning poet and scholar, George Elliott Clarke edits this pioneer collection of passionate, spiritual, earthy and liberating prose, poetry and song.

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Product Description: After nine years and nine trade printings, Gaspereau Press is issuing a revised and redesigned second edition of its most popular title. Originally released in 2000 in a limited edition of 66 books handset and printed letterpress in a folio format, Execution Poems has gone on to sell over 6000 copies...read more

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9781554470815, titled "Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of "George & Rue"" | 2 edition (Gaspereau Pr, August 31, 2009), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: After nine years and nine trade printings, Gaspereau Press is issuing a revised and redesigned second edition of its most popular title.
9781894031486 | Gaspereau Pr, October 30, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Gaspereau Press’ best-selling title, Execution Poems, is George Elliott Clarke’s complex lament for his late cousins, George and Rue–two Black men who were hanged for the murder of a taxi driver.

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Product Description: Number one in the series is Clarke’s Gold Indigoes. This lyric collection by the acclaimed Nova Scotian poet, playwright, and librettist traces the contours of relationship in lush yet startling francophilic tones.

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9780932112408 | Signed edition (Carolina Wren Pr, November 1, 1999), cover price $19.60 | About this edition: Number one in the series is Clarke’s Gold Indigoes.

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Product Description: Whylah Falls is a passionate play about poets and the lies they tell in the pursuit of love.

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9780887545658 | Playwrights Canada Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Whylah Falls is a passionate play about poets and the lies they tell in the pursuit of love.

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Product Description: Mixing prose, poetry, and drama, and including the work of established writers and new voices, writing in English as well as French (in translation here), Eyeing the North Star is a varied and vibrant overview of the recent evolution of African-Canadian Literature.

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9780771021251 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, October 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Mixing prose, poetry, and drama, and including the work of established writers and new voices, writing in English as well as French (in translation here), Eyeing the North Star is a varied and vibrant overview of the recent evolution of African-Canadian Literature.

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Product Description: 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.

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9780919001831 | Pottersfield Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: 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.

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