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Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature
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.
George Elliott Clarke is a poet, playwright and scholar born in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Other publications from this author include:
- Portia White: A Portrait in Words (2019)
- Locating Home: The First African-Canadian Novel and Verse Collections (2018)
- These Are the Words (2018)
- Canticles I: (MMXVII) (2017)
- The Merchant of Venice (Retried) (2017)
- The Motorcyclist (2017)
- Canticles I: (MMXVI) (2016)
- Gold (2016)
- Extra Illicit Sonnets (2015)
- Traverse (2014)
- Illicit Sonnets (2013)
- Lasso the Wind: Aurelia’s Verses and other Poems (2013)
- Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature (2011)
- Red (2011)
- I & I (2009)
- Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke (2008)
- Trudeau: Long March & Shining Path (2007)
- Black (2006)
- Illuminated Verses (2005)
- George and Rue (2005)
- Quebecite (2003)
- Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (2002)
- Execution Poems : The Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue (2001)
- Blue (2001)
- Blue II (2001)
- Gold Indigoes (1999)
- Whylah Falls: A Play (1999)
- Beatrice Chancy (1999)
- Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems : 1978-1993 (1994)
- Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing, Volume Two (1992)
- Whylah Falls (1990)