Podcasts about George Elliott Clarke

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with one of her “favourite poets in the galaxy”, Canada's 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Elliot Clarke about his Canticles series of books—focusing on Canticles II (MMXX). Canticles is a lyric-styled epic. Clarke's visions of canonical and apocryphal scriptures are black in ink, but lightning in illumination. Testament II issues re-readings, revisions, rewrites of scriptures crucial to the emergent (Anglophone) African Diaspora in the Americas. Canticles II (MMXIX) and Canticles II (MMXX) follow Testament I (also issued in two parts) whose subject is History, principally, of slavery and imperialism and liberation and independence. Canticles II is properly irreverent where necessary, but never blasphemous. It is scripture become what it always is, really, anyway: Poetry. About George Elliot Clarke: Acclaimed for his narrative lyric suites (Whylah Falls and Execution Poems), his lyric “colouring books” (Blue, Black, Red, and Gold), his selected poems (Blues and Bliss), his opera libretti and plays (Beatrice Chancy and Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path), George Elliott Clarke now presents us with his epic-in-progress, Canticles, a work that views History as a web of imperialism, enslavement, and insurrection. A native Africadian, Canada's 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate ranges the atlas and ransacks the library to ink lines unflinching before Atrocity and unquiet before Oppression. About Hollay Ghadery: Hollay Ghadery is an Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children's book, Being with the Birds, with Guernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is the host of the 105.5 FM Bookclub, as well as a co-host on HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. She is also a book publicist, the Regional Chair of the League of Canadian Poets and a co-chair of the League's BIPOC committee, as well as the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. Learn more about Hollay at www.hollayghadery.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with one of her “favourite poets in the galaxy”, Canada's 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Elliot Clarke about his Canticles series of books—focusing on Canticles II (MMXX). Canticles is a lyric-styled epic. Clarke's visions of canonical and apocryphal scriptures are black in ink, but lightning in illumination. Testament II issues re-readings, revisions, rewrites of scriptures crucial to the emergent (Anglophone) African Diaspora in the Americas. Canticles II (MMXIX) and Canticles II (MMXX) follow Testament I (also issued in two parts) whose subject is History, principally, of slavery and imperialism and liberation and independence. Canticles II is properly irreverent where necessary, but never blasphemous. It is scripture become what it always is, really, anyway: Poetry. About George Elliot Clarke: Acclaimed for his narrative lyric suites (Whylah Falls and Execution Poems), his lyric “colouring books” (Blue, Black, Red, and Gold), his selected poems (Blues and Bliss), his opera libretti and plays (Beatrice Chancy and Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path), George Elliott Clarke now presents us with his epic-in-progress, Canticles, a work that views History as a web of imperialism, enslavement, and insurrection. A native Africadian, Canada's 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate ranges the atlas and ransacks the library to ink lines unflinching before Atrocity and unquiet before Oppression. About Hollay Ghadery: Hollay Ghadery is an Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children's book, Being with the Birds, with Guernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is the host of the 105.5 FM Bookclub, as well as a co-host on HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. She is also a book publicist, the Regional Chair of the League of Canadian Poets and a co-chair of the League's BIPOC committee, as well as the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. Learn more about Hollay at www.hollayghadery.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with one of her “favourite poets in the galaxy”, Canada's 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Elliot Clarke about his Canticles series of books—focusing on Canticles II (MMXX). Canticles is a lyric-styled epic. Clarke's visions of canonical and apocryphal scriptures are black in ink, but lightning in illumination. Testament II issues re-readings, revisions, rewrites of scriptures crucial to the emergent (Anglophone) African Diaspora in the Americas. Canticles II (MMXIX) and Canticles II (MMXX) follow Testament I (also issued in two parts) whose subject is History, principally, of slavery and imperialism and liberation and independence. Canticles II is properly irreverent where necessary, but never blasphemous. It is scripture become what it always is, really, anyway: Poetry. About George Elliot Clarke: Acclaimed for his narrative lyric suites (Whylah Falls and Execution Poems), his lyric “colouring books” (Blue, Black, Red, and Gold), his selected poems (Blues and Bliss), his opera libretti and plays (Beatrice Chancy and Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path), George Elliott Clarke now presents us with his epic-in-progress, Canticles, a work that views History as a web of imperialism, enslavement, and insurrection. A native Africadian, Canada's 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate ranges the atlas and ransacks the library to ink lines unflinching before Atrocity and unquiet before Oppression. About Hollay Ghadery: Hollay Ghadery is an Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children's book, Being with the Birds, with Guernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is the host of the 105.5 FM Bookclub, as well as a co-host on HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. She is also a book publicist, the Regional Chair of the League of Canadian Poets and a co-chair of the League's BIPOC committee, as well as the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. Learn more about Hollay at www.hollayghadery.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

The Canadian pianist D.D. Jackson got an unusual request during the pandemic: his old friend, Canada's former poet laureate George Elliott Clarke, asked him to turn a poem he had written for his daughter into a song. That led to a whole project in which George sent D.D. different works by Canadian poets for D.D. to transform into music. The result of their collaboration is a new album called “Poetry Project.” D.D. and George join Tom Power to talk about the album and set up a song from it.

On this week of BlackLantic, we sit down (in person) with the literary legend George Elliott Clarke who recently edited the autobiography of his mentor and father-figure, Black Activist, Black Scientist, Black Icon - The Story of Dr. Howard D. McCurdy. The story shares the life, triumph and struggles of a Black man who is not only extremely educated, named the New Democratic Party in Canada, accomplished an astonishing amount, yet never received the accolades deserved for his contributions to Canada until much later in life. Reading the book in 2024, you see McCurdy fight for the same political issues we are fighting today. Thank you to Nimbus Publishing for facilitating the conversation, and the Halifax Public Library for hosting us.

Rebecca and Tara celebrate Black History Month with their picks and TBR! Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):  Fifteen Thousand Pieces by Gina Leola Woolsey Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall  The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot Lies About Black People: How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why it Matters by Omekongo Dibinga Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall; illustrated by Hugo Martínez Tara (@onabranchreads) Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/moon-of-the-turning-leaves/ In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas Dread Nation; Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland James; The Trees by Percival Everett The African Samurai by Craig Shreve Frying Plantain; River Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta George and Rue by George Elliott Clarke 

Join our three podcasters: Kim Conklin, Sarah Jarvis, and Irene Moore Davis for a fond look at some of the titles that caught our attention in 2023.  It's not an exhaustive list as we loved all our interviews and you can find them all in our episodes. Here are links to the ones we mentioned here:The Middle Daughter  Chika Unigwehttps://www.buzzsprout.com/327233/12557891G.A. Grisenthwaite's Tales for Late Night Bonfireshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/327233/13410063Psych Murders with Stephanie Heithttps://www.buzzsprout.com/327233/12415544https://stephanie-heit.com/books-psych-murders/Black Scientist, Black Activist, Black Icon by Howard McCurdy. Edited by George Elliott Clarke https://www.buzzsprout.com/327233/13453444 The African Samurai by Craig Shrevehttps://www.buzzsprout.com/327233/13445022Raising Bean by W.S. Pennhttps://www.buzzsprout.com/327233/11908024Ordinary Wonder Tales with Emily Urquharthttps://www.buzzsprout.com/327233/12838402Tend by Kate Hargreaves https://www.buzzsprout.com/327233/12514105 Stephen Marche's On Writing and Failure https://www.buzzsprout.com/327233/12867483 Arboreality by Rebecca Campbellhttps://www.buzzsprout.com/327233/12962533

Poet, novelist, playwright, and critic Dr. George Elliott Clarke is a native of Windsor, Nova Scotia. He is a seventh-generation Canadian of African American and Mi'kmaq Indigenous descent. He earned his BA from the University of Waterloo, MA from Dalhousie University, and PhD from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (which is where I first met him.) Clarke has served as both Poet Laureate of Toronto, Ontario and Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada, and he teaches Canadian literature at the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Order of Nova Scotia and the Order of Canada. He has written too many books to mention but some particular favourites of mine are Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues, Whylah Falls which he later adapted for the radio and stage, Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems, Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue, which won the Governor General's Literary Award, Red, Black, Blue, Gold, White, Canticles, War Canticles, Canticles III, and Where Beauty Survived: An Africadian Memoir (2021.) He's also the author of many critical and scholarly works, including Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (2002).George Elliott Clarke is no stranger to the Detroit River borderlands and to BookFest/Festival du Livre Windsor in particular, and this October, he'll be appearing BookFest Windsor again. On October 14th, he'll be appearing at the Windsor launch of his latest project, Black Scientist, Black Activist, Black Icon, and on October 15th, he'll be part of the always popular BookFest Windsor event, the Poetry Café.Available from Nimbus Publishing.About BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor https://www.literaryartswindsor.ca/bookfest/

In this two part episode of the Courage My Friends podcast, Telling Black histories: writing, recuperation and resistance, we are very pleased to welcome the 4th Poet Laureate of Toronto and the 7th Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke. As we continue our conversation, Clarke reflects on past and current struggles against White western power, the meaning of decolonization and shaping effective resistance in Canada and beyond. Clarke discusses ongoing  legacies of colonialism and racist  imperialism in global politics,: “As Malcolm X said, ‘"you're a bunch of hypocrites'"...At the same time as you're expressing all these nostrums and parables of your supposed virtues, you are armed to the teeth. You are armed to the teeth! You are building jails to house masses of people seeking relief from the oppression that you have engineered in their home countries… And then these oppressed peoples flee for the refuge of your democracy and your attitude is to let them drown in the Mediterranean. .. let them drown in the Atlantic.”. For Clarke, achieving real change in Canada is very much in our hands: “We want to end police killings of unarmed Black men and Indigenous men and women and youth? Oh, we can do that, but we're gonna have to vote in place governments that will put in place very strict regiments on police forces..Whatever it is that you, the people together, collectively want in a democracy, you can have it. ..You can have an end to war. You can have more distribution of income and wealth. In a democracy you can actually vote yourselves this…So what's stopping us? Well, actually nothing is stopping us, except our own blind obedience to the way things have always been.”  Speaking to the failures of “cancel culture”, Clarke says: “The woke/cancelers have power to destroy individuals, which they can do, and they've done it. ..On the other hand, as they have also proven, they cannot destroy oppressive institutions. How nice it would be if they could, but they don't have that ability. They can destroy individuals, but not institutions. I think that's a problem.Because to go after individuals, any mob can do that. But to go after institutions, a mob isn't what you need. You need a revolutionary movement”.  About today's guest The 4th  Poet Laureate of Toronto (2012-15) and the 7th Parliamentary/Canadian Poet Laureate (2016-17), George Elliott Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1960. A professor of English at the University of Toronto, Clarke has also taught at Duke, McGill, UBC, and Harvard. His recognitions include the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Fellowship (US), the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellows Prize, the Governor-General's Award for Poetry, the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry, the PremiulPoesis (Romania), the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry (US), and International Fellow Poet of the Year, Encyclopedic Poetry School [2019] (China).  His acclaimed titles include Whylah Falls (1990, translated into Chinese), Beatrice Chancy (1999, translated into Italian), Execution Poems (2001), Blues and Bliss (selected poems, 2009), I & I (2008), Illicit Sonnets (U.K., 2013), Traverse (2015), Canticles II (MMXX) (2020), and J'Accuse…! (Poem versus Silence) (2021). Transcript of this episode can be accessed at georgebrown.ca/TommyDouglasInstitute.  Image: George Elliott Clarke (Portrait by Katerina Fretwell) / Used with Permission Music: Ang Kahora. Lynne, Bjorn. Rights Purchased Intro Voices: Ashley Booth (podcast announcer); Bob Luker (voice of Tommy Douglas); Kenneth Okoro, Liz Campos Rico, Tsz Wing Chau (street voices)  Courage My Friends Podcast Organizing Committee: Chandra Budhu, Ashley Booth, Resh Budhu.  Produced by: Resh Budhu, Tommy Douglas Institute and Breanne Doyle, rabble.ca Host: Resh Budhu

In this 2-part episode of the Courage My Friends podcast, Telling Black histories: writing, recuperation and resistance, we are very pleased to welcome the 4th Poet Laureate of Toronto and the 7th Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke.  In Part I of our conversation, Clarke takes us on a journey through Black and Africadian history in Canada, his life and work and discusses the importance of recuperating Black and colonized  histories through writing and resistance. Reflecting on the history of Black communities in Nova Scotia, Clarke says: Africadia is built, is constructed in complete defiance, of white supremacist, racist governmental decisions including environmental racism - placing dumps beside Black communities, placing polluting factories on the doorsteps of Black communities and so on. Those people, my ancestors, decided that they were going to construct communities. Church-based, church-anchored communities all around mainland Nova Scotia, in complete defiance of the racist oppressor and the oppressor's attempt to create a Nova Scotia as a White person's paradise. As a White person's dream.  About today's guest The 4th Poet Laureate of Toronto (2012-15) and the 7th Parliamentary/Canadian Poet Laureate (2016-17), George Elliott Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1960. A professor of English at the University of Toronto, Clarke has also taught at Duke, McGill, UBC and Harvard. His recognitions include the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Fellowship (US), the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellows Prize, the Governor-General's Award for Poetry, the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry, the PremiulPoesis (Romania), the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry (US), and International Fellow Poet of the Year, Encyclopedic Poetry School [2019] (China).  His acclaimed titles include Whylah Falls (1990, translated into Chinese), Beatrice Chancy (1999, translated into Italian), Execution Poems (2001), Blues and Bliss (selected poems, 2009), I & I (2008), Illicit Sonnets (U.K., 2013), Traverse (2015), Canticles II (MMXX) (2020), and J'Accuse…! (Poem versus Silence) (2021). Transcript of this episode can be accessed at georgebrown.ca/TommyDouglasInstitute.  Image: George Elliott Clarke (Portrait by Katerina Fretwell) / Used with Permission Music: Ang Kahora. Lynne, Bjorn. Rights Purchased Intro Voices: Ashley Booth (podcast announcer); Bob Luker (voice of Tommy Douglas); Kenneth Okoro, Liz Campos Rico, Tsz Wing Chau (street voices)  Courage My Friends Podcast Organizing Committee: Chandra Budhu, Ashley Booth, Resh Budhu.  Produced by: Resh Budhu, Tommy Douglas Institute and Breanne Doyle, rabble.ca Host: Resh Budhu

In which we present the second part of our talk with former Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke! Topics include Confederation-era African-Canadian lives, their poetry, and a bunch of tangents. Get 2 months of free podcast hosting by going to: https://signup.libsyn.com/?promo_code=CANLIT --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory).

In which (for reasons of storage space) we present the first part of our very interesting talk with former Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke! Topics include Confederation-era African-Canadian lives, their poetry, and a bunch of tangents. The next part is out next week! Get 2 months of free podcast hosting by going to: https://signup.libsyn.com/?promo_code=CANLIT --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory).

Award winning poet, author, and University of Toronto professor, Dr. George Elliott Clarke, joins the Down Home podcast to talk about his poetic inspiration. He also talks to Jay and D about the role that white supremacy plays in our Canadian culture and global political events.     This is part two of a two part conversation, the first part can be found in the episode list.         #GEC #poet #socialjustice # #poetlaureate #UofT #orderofcanada       disclaimer: the opinions expressed by guests are not necessarily the opinions of the Down Home podcast

Award winning poet, author and University of Toronto professor, Dr. George Elliott Clarke, joins the Down Home podcast to share his Scotian story.   This is part one of a two part conversation, tune in next week to listen to part two.     #GEC #poet #socialjustice # #poetlaureate #UofT #orderofcanada

Ricardo Scipio talks about his personal journey and struggle as an artist. What made him decide to make sexual art? What has he learned about sex from photographing over 500 people having sex? How has seeing his work affected the people who have seen his work and how does that affect him? Trinidad-born Ricardo Scipio has thus far garnered the reputation for making unique, multi-layered, provocative work in film and photography. His first feature film "When" was an irrepressibly brutal and comedic portrayal of dysfunctional struggling actresses in New York. His second feature film "Watershed" was the first independent feature film in North America to be shot in digital high-definition, breaking ground with its technical and narrative accomplishments. His third feature film "Finder of Lost Children," set in the Caribbean community of Canada, is a poignantly moving and humorous story of two half-sisters that meet for the first time at the funeral of the father neither one of them knew. Ricardo grew up in Toronto and attended both The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and The University of Waterloo. He started his art career as a fashion photographer and then later as a fine art nude photographer. He has had 14 gallery shows of his work and his first book of photographs- a collaboration with noted Canadian poet George Elliott Clarke, was published in November of 2005. His second book "The Goddess Project" was completed in 2010. A book of nudes of Black women entitled "Uzuri" was finalized in 2011. Never idle for long, Scipio has completed photographing his fourth book "The Goddess Project Book Two" in 2012. His fifth book "The Goddess Project Book Three" was finished in 2015. The Sex Goddess Project Book One was completed in 2016 He completed The Sex Goddess Project Book Two in 2018, Book Three of the series in 2019 and Book Four in 2020. Ricardo has recently started his his tenth book "The Intimacy Project." When not on tour, Scipio makes his home in Canada. The Sex Goddess Project sexgoddessproject.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intimate-interactions/message

Representations of people of colour in the world of sex- why is it important that people of colour be in this space? What are some of the barriers to more people of colour being in this space? What has been my experience as a poc being in this space? Trinidad-born Ricardo Scipio has thus far garnered the reputation for making unique, multi-layered, provocative work in film and photography. His first feature film "When" was an irrepressibly brutal and comedic portrayal of dysfunctional struggling actresses in New York. His second feature film "Watershed" was the first independent feature film in North America to be shot in digital high-definition, breaking ground with its technical and narrative accomplishments. His third feature film "Finder of Lost Children," set in the Caribbean community of Canada, is a poignantly moving and humorous story of two half-sisters that meet for the first time at the funeral of the father neither one of them knew. Ricardo grew up in Toronto and attended both The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and The University of Waterloo. He started his art career as a fashion photographer and then later as a fine art nude photographer. He has had 14 gallery shows of his work and his first book of photographs- a collaboration with noted Canadian poet George Elliott Clarke, was published in November of 2005. His second book "The Goddess Project" was completed in 2010. A book of nudes of Black women entitled "Uzuri" was finalized in 2011. Never idle for long, Scipio has completed photographing his fourth book "The Goddess Project Book Two" in 2012. His fifth book "The Goddess Project Book Three" was finished in 2015. The Sex Goddess Project Book One was completed in 2016 He completed The Sex Goddess Project Book Two in 2018, Book Three of the series in 2019 and Book Four in 2020. Ricardo has recently started his his tenth book "The Intimacy Project." When not on tour, Scipio makes his home in Canada. The Sex Goddess Project sexgoddessproject.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intimate-interactions/message

This week we are talking about these vessels --- this bag of bones we call a body! I do something a little different this week by reciting two different poems: one from Lucille Clifton and the other from George Elliott Clarke. We're almost near the end of my first season and I'm so grateful for your support. I also recite my poem "Ms. Maybelline". If you want to revisit my reflection questions, access links to the featured poems, and find the archives of my original poetry from the show head over to poetryisfreedom.com !!  Follow the show on Instagram @poetryisfreedom. Twitter @saylarisadenise and @poetryisfreepod. TikTok @poetryisfreedom. All featured poets reserve the rights to their published works. Please head over to my website to find links to where you can find their poetry under the “Read” tab.

In this episode, we talk to professor George Elliott Clarke about his new book Where Beauty Survive and how it represents Maritime Black History. The post The Return of George Elliott Clarke appeared first on Black In The Maritimes.

W​e ​hear about a new historical bibliography detailing the Black history of Atlantic Canada. ​Colleen Kitts-Goguen talks to George Elliott Clarke and Donald Wright​.​

A conversation with George Elliott Clarke about his new memoir about growing up Afri-cadian. He opens up about his early life, and the cultural and family dynamic that shaped his path and perspective as a poet.

Don't miss this conversation between acclaimed author, editor and translator, Wayne Grady and internationally-renowned poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, librettist and scholar, George Elliott Clarke, on his latest publication, Where Beauty Survived: An Africadian Memoir At the book's heart is George's turbulent relationship with his father, an autodidact who valued art, music and books but worked an unfulfilling railway job. George recalls Bill using a bowl of white sugar and a bowl of brown sugar to explain racial difference to him and his brothers when they were very small. But Bill also acted out destructive frustrations, assaulting George's mother and sometimes George and his brothers, too. Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books. The Ottawa International Writers Festival is supported by generous individuals like you. Please consider subscribing to our newsletter and making a donation to support our programming and children's literacy initiatives.

  Poet & author George Elliott Clarke on his memoir “Where Beauty Survived” plus musical artist Yola on her new album “Stand for Myself”. Guest host: ET Canada, Entertainment Reporter, Carlos Bustamante. #ontheradar: The Milk Crate challenge, Lizzo gets candid about fatphobic bullying, Drake and Kanye West feud reignited, Shang-Chi and more fall films we can't wait to watch. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Grammy-winning musician Lorde reflects on her rise to fame and why she wants to dismantle her superstar persona with her third and latest album, Solar Power. New York Times bestselling author Silvia Moreno-Garcia discusses her new novel, Velvet Was the Night — a political noir set in the shadowy world of spies, student activists and gangsters in 1970s Mexico City. Award-winning writer George Elliott Clarke talks about his first memoir, Where Beauty Survived, in which he opens up about his early experience as a young Black man trying to find his voice.

Shad - "Storm (feat. Phoenix Pagliacci & George Elliott Clarke)" from the 2021 album TAO on Secret City. When it comes to today's featured track, Toronto-based rapper Shad wrote on his Facebook, "Not even sure how to describe this next song." The powerful single draws inspiration from '70s icons "Marvin Gaye, The Last Poets, The Staples Singers, Sly Stone," and features collaborations with artist pHoenix Pagliacci, Canadian band Jane's Party, and former Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada, George Elliott Clarke.  "'Storm' is a feeling," he continued in a press release. "The feeling of a flood of memories. In the same way that a storm is the result of forces that gather strength quietly, often invisibly over time — this song is meant to hold a sense of the same sort of process as it relates to the storms in our lives and the storms in our world. The way storms can build up almost imperceptibly in our individual and collective unconscious. The song touches on a range of personal and political storms, both good and bad, through a range of voices, but most importantly it sees them all as inextricably tied." Read the full post on KEXP.org Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fresh off a 4 week break, the boys are back in business! We initially intended to take two weeks off but man, July was wild. As the world opens up, it feels like it made sense for us all to chill for a bit and soak up the summer. This ep, we caught y'all up on all the crazy shit that went down in the past month - RIP Gift of Gab and Biz Markie, Bill Cosby got released from jail, we had Soujah Boy Verzuz Bow Wow and Keith Sweat Verzuz Bobby Brown with The Lox Verzuz Dipset coming August 3rd, the BET Awards, Kanye West's DONDA rollout and the Royce Da 5'9" and Lupe Fiasco beef, along with a quick Overrated/Underrated. For the tunes, we covered some of the best music to drop in the past month along with the new new, including Shad x pHoenix Pagliacci x George Elliott Clarke, Tyler, The Creator, Joyner Lucas x Rick Ross, Rel McCoy, Headie One, Unknown T, Snoh Aalegra, Ed Sheeran, Big Sean, Russ, Isaiah Rashad, Vic Mensa, Vince Stapes, Fredo x Headie One, Central Cee, Lil Nas X x Jack Harlow, Maeta, rum.gold, Doja Cat, Evidence, Hiatus Kaiyote, Curren$y, Logic, Amorphous, IDK, Styles P, Charlotte Day Wilson, GMC x Rydah x Johnny Narcoties, Pop Smoke, Blxst x Bino Rideaux, John Mayer, Santan Dave, Emilio Rojas, Ebhoni, The Kid Laroi, DJ Drama, Madchild, Nao, Santino Le Saint x Lancey Foux, Mary J. Blige, Brent Faiyaz x Drake, Bas x J. Cole x Lil T-Jay, Smiley x Drake, Luisa Sonza x 6lack, Belly x The Weeknd x Young Thug, Kiana Ledé x Kehlani, OHGEESY x YG, Brady Watt x Westside Gunn x DJ Premier, SonReal, Popcaan, Tinashe, James Blake, Mahalia, Swedish House Mafia x Ty Dolla $ign x 070 Shake, Jim Jones x Fabulous x Scram Jones x Eric Bellinger, Demarco x Stephen Marley, Isaiah Rashad x Doechii x Kal Banx, K CAMP x True Story Gee, Elijah Blake x Trinidad James, BJ The Chicago Kid x Lucky Daye, Eric Bellinger, Mickey Factz x Blu x Asher Roth and Dave East x Harry Fraud x Benny The Butcher. Feels great to be back! ARTISTS: Contact info@illnotestudios.com for the production/mixing/mastering opportunity. Theme tune produced by Notion. Purchase beats: notionbeats.com Follow the team everywhere: @TheMovementFam @CeeFor @Notionbaby @iDahnJohnson

Poet and critic George Elliott Clarke spoke with the Black In The Maritimes team.

What kinds of responsibility does a Black writer have? Is it enough to just write whatever inspires you, or is there an obligation to take on the big questions of culture, class, colour? In part two of a two-part series, Black Canadian writers George Elliott Clarke, Afua Cooper and André Alexis discuss why they write and the importance of finding home in their work.

S4E1: Poetry to Open a New Year Recording Date: January 4, 2020  Transcript: Download available here: https://bit.ly/32Sz8u7   Keywords: 2021, New Year, Change, Poetry, Poems, Inner peace, intentions, grounding, meditation,    Episode summary introduction:  Sometimes when we do not have the words ourselves, we turn to words of those before us to guide us, to help center us, and to find meaning as the world changes. In this episode, Jessica Stover from Networks' provides a reading of various poems meant to guide and center you as we begin a new year.   Topical Index: Introduction [00:00] Reading of the “The Passing of the Year” by Robert W. Service [2:18] Link to poem: https://poets.org/poem/passing-year Reading of “Everything is Free” by George Elliott Clarke [5:56] Link to poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46205/everything-is-free Reading of “For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet” by Joy Harjo [7:04] Link to poem: https://poets.org/poem/calling-spirit-back-wandering-earth-its-human-feet Closing [11:15]  Subscribe to Our Podcast Find out more at https://networks-healing-circle.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

James Rolfe's website: www.jamesrolfe.caJames' music on SoundcloudJames' piece "Raw" - performed by Continuum on YoutubeDuring Episode 7 James referenced the Stravinsky Piano Sonata - on YoutubeJames' teacher John Beckwith - http://individual.utoronto.ca/John_Beckwith/The Canadian Music Centre, which is a great resource for people curious about Canadian composers and their music - https://cmccanada.org/An excerpt from Beatrice Chancy, by James and George Eliot ClarkeInformation on our great poet George Elliott Clarke - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/george-elliott-clarkeor https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/george-elliott-clarkeor https://www.georgeelliottclarke.net/full-biography 

Season 5, Episode 3. Engaging and reflective. GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE'S writing is always a reflection of his personality: charged with energy and imagination that can't help but engage you. In Portia White: A Portrait in Words, his subject's international successes and near-crushing personal reversals fuel poems that illuminate the life of the great Nova Scotia-born contralto.

George Elliott Clarke a eu un amour précoce pour les livres qui a façonné sa carrière d'auteur, de poète et de professeur qui a fait de la vie des Noirs sa spécialité. Élu poète officiel du Parlement du Canada de 2016 à 2017, sa poésie, sa prose, et ses œuvres dramatiques racontent l'histoire et la culture des Noirs du Canada, surtout de ceux de la Nouvelle-Écosse. Il se dit « Africadien », un terme qu'il a inventé pour décrire ses descendants qui sont arrivés des États-Unis au Canada à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Durée : 3:26 https://www.rcinet.ca/fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/fr_balado_3-20200225-wbf30.mp3

George Elliott Clark is one of the most prolific Canadian poets and playwrights. He is most known for his chronicles and exploration of the history of Black Canadian communities of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. As well he coined the term “Afracadia”. Among his many accomplishments, he was the 7th Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, he was appointed the Governor General’s award for Poetry, the Order of Nova Scotia in 2006, and the Office of the Order of Canada in 2008. We talk about the Africadian history, the contradictory nature of the British North American Act and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the erasure of African-Canadian history. Postal Code Chronicles Instagram Facebook Website --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/postal-code-chronicles/support

It may have been chosen as America's “Best Loved Novel”, but there are questions as to whether To Kill a Mockingbird should continue to be taught in Canadian schools.  Rob speaks with George Elliott Clarke, Canadian poet and playwright who has served as Parliamentary Poet Laureate.  He is a professor of English at the University of Toronto.

George Elliott Clarke, Leonard Cohen: Ethics & the Artist by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

George Elliott Clarke, Kaddish for Leonard Cohen (à la manière d’Allen Ginsberg) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

Canada's seventh poet laureate talks about being Africanadian, and his most recent book "The Motorcyclist."

George Elliott Clarke has been appointed as Canada's seventh poet laureate.    His wide-ranging conversation with Desmond touches on how working for a trailblazing black MP led him to meeting the Dalai Lama, why politicians should care about poetry and how he thinks Canadians are being ripped off by phone companies.    Plus, he nearly sets the studio on fire with a rendition of his poem “Look Homeward, Exile."Support COMMONS: http://commonspodcast.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Poet laureate George Elliott Clarke discusses The Poetry Map from Toronto Public Libraries, diversity and police culture, and more. Also, Roman Mars from 99% Invisible shares his opinions on the greatest libraries in North America. Original music by Jay Ferguson and Kris Magnuson. More about The Cities Podcast: http://news.utoronto.ca/podcasts Explore The Poetry Map from Toronto Public Libraries: http://www.torontopoetry.ca/ TRANSCRIPT The Cities Podcast […]

George Elliott Clarke explores violence, racism and poverty in the Maritimes in the 1940s in his book, "George and Rue". It is a part fiction, part fact story based on a real event; that of his two cousins who were executed for murdering a cab driver. Apart from the book, Elliott Clarke says that black history has very little presence in Canadian history books. He also comments on his involvement with trying to get "To Kill A Mockingbird" replaced in the school curriculum with a book by an African writer who would have a different take on racism. (Originally aired February 2005)

George Elliott Clarke explores violence, racism and poverty in the Maritimes in the 1940s in his book, "George and Rue". It is a part fiction, part fact story based on a real event; that of his two cousins who were executed for murdering a cab driver. Apart from the book, Elliott Clarke says that black history has very little presence in Canadian history books. He also comments on his involvement with trying to get "To Kill A Mockingbird" replaced in the school curriculum with a book by an African writer who would have a different take on racism. (Originally aired February 2005)

George Elliott Clarke on Emily Carr's The Trees in the Sky

George Elliott Clarke on Emily Carr's The Trees in the Sky

Recorded on November 21, 2007 by CFRC, 101.9 FM. Dr. Clarke delivers his keynote address from the 2007 Legacy of Slavery Conference, entitled "Reading African Slavery in Canada". The introduction is from Dr. Joy Mighty.

Featuring Dr. George Elliott Clarke discussing his harrowing true crime novel, GEORGE AND RUE with The Good Book Club Houston Chapter. Special monthly edition of the Bookclub In Your Pocket Show. GEORGE and RUE is about a death that brims with fierce vitality and dark humor. Infused with the sensual, rhythmic beauty that defines Clarke’s writing, this is a literary debut that is marked by celebration and controversy.Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors and Bookclubs In Your Pocket

Featuring Award Winning Canadian Poet turned Author George Elliott Clarke and his hauntingly beautiful book GEORGE and RUE.GEORGE and RUE is about a death that brims with fierce vitality and dark humor. Infused with the sensual, rhythmic beauty that defines Clarkes writing, this is a literary debut that is marked by celebration and controversy. George Elliot Clarke was thirty four years old when, shortly before his mother's death, she told him for the first time the story of his matrilineal first cousins, George and Rufus Hamilton. In a robbery gone wrong, the brothers committed a slug ugly crime on January 7, 1949, drunkenly bludgeoning to death a taxi driver for the money in his wallet. The brothers, partly descended from African American slaves and native Mikmaq, were both hanged for the killing later that year. GEORGE and RUE shifts seamlessly back into the killers pasts, recounting a bleak and sometimes darkly comic tale of victims of violence who became killers, a black community too poor and too ashamed to assist its downtrodden members, and a white community bent on condemning all blacks as dangerous outsiders. Written in a lyrical, bluesy style that Clarke calls blackened English, GEORGE and RUE is an extraordinary debut novel about death that brims with a fierce vitality.Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In YourPocket

Featuring Dr. George Elliott Clarke discussing his harrowing true crime novel, GEORGE AND RUE with The Good Book Club Houston Chapter. Special monthly edition of the Bookclub In Your Pocket Show. GEORGE and RUE is about a death that brims with fierce vitality and dark humor. Infused with the sensual, rhythmic beauty that defines Clarkes writing, this is a literary debut that is marked by celebration and controversy.Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors and Bookclubs In Your Pocket

Featuring Award Winning Canadian Poet turned Author George Elliott Clarke and his hauntingly beautiful book GEORGE and RUE.GEORGE and RUE is about a death that brims with fierce vitality and dark humor. Infused with the sensual, rhythmic beauty that defines Clarkes writing, this is a literary debut that is marked by celebration and controversy. George Elliot Clarke was thirty four years old when, shortly before his mothers death, she told him for the first time the story of his matrilineal first cousins, George and Rufus Hamilton. In a robbery gone wrong, the brothers committed a slug ugly crime on January 7, 1949, drunkenly bludgeoning to death a taxi driver for the money in his wallet. The brothers, partly descended from African American slaves and native Mikmaq, were both hanged for the killing later that year. GEORGE and RUE shifts seamlessly back into the killers pasts, recounting a bleak and sometimes darkly comic tale of victims of violence who became killers, a black community too poor and too ashamed to assist its downtrodden members, and a white community bent on condemning all blacks as dangerous outsiders. Written in a lyrical, bluesy style that Clarke calls blackened English, GEORGE and RUE is an extraordinary debut novel about death that brims with a fierce vitality.Brought to you by TriCom Podcast, dedicated to putting Authors In YourPocket