George Elliott Clarke reciting from Canticles

Please join the Department of English Language and Literature for a public talk by Dr. George Elliott Clarke, Waterloo Arts alumnus and Professor of English, University of Toronto. Dr. Clarke will be reciting from his latest work Canticles, an ongoing project started in Zanzibar in 2008 and expected to conclude in 2021.

Dr. Clarke is has been the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, as well as the Poet Laureate of Toronto. His collection Execution Poems won the 2001 Governor General’s Award for poetry; additionally, Clarke has edited numerous anthologies including Border Lines (1995), Eyeing the North Star (1997), Odysseys Home (2002), Fire on the Water (2002), Directions Home (2012), and Locating Home (2017).