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  • Bibliography:
    4 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1997
  • Latest Book:
    December 2005
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Book List in Order: 4 titles



  • 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-Canad...



  • The mythic community created within these poems is populated with larger-than-life characters: lovers, murderers, musicians, and muses. Winner of the Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry, Whylah Falls has inspired a drama, a stage play, and a feature f...



  • The legend of Beatrice Cenci has intrigued writers such as Antonin Artaud, Stendhal, Mary Shelley, Alexandre Dumas, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, and Kathy Acker. In Beatrice Chancy, a verse play set in Nova Scotia in 1819, Clarke boldly rei...



  • 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 h...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

George Elliott Clarke has published 4 books.

George Elliott Clarke does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, George and Rue, was published in December 2005.

The first book by George Elliott Clarke, Eyeing the North Star, was published in March 1997.

No. George Elliott Clarke does not write books in series.