Miscellaneous Articles (1992-)
Review of To All the Mirrored Doors of Beginning, a Journey Ending. By. Ruth Rifka (Toronto: Resource Publications, 2024). Verse Afire. 2.2. (June 2025): 36-37.
“Echoes of the Troubadour: A Review of In a Cage of Sunlight: The Works of Joseph Maviglia, Selected and New Posted June 16, 2025. accenti.ca
https://accenti.ca/echoes-of-the-troubadour-a-review-of-in-a-cage-of-sunlight-the-works-of-joseph-maviglia-selected-and-new/
“Letter to the Editor.” bulletin. 72.2 (March-April 2025): 12.
Review. The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680-1790. By Thomas Peace. The Nashwaak Review. 52/53. 1 (Fall/Winter 2024/25): 102-106.
A Tombstone, Not a Foundation.” Review of The Blacks in Canada: A History. 3rd Edition. By Robin Winks. The Nashwaak Review. 52/53. 1 (Fall/Winter 2024/25): 114-116.
“George Elliott Clarke: ‘Jane Austen is deathless.’” Unexpectedly Austen. Eds. Liz Philosophos Cooper and Sarah Emsley. Jane Austen Society of North America. April 2025.
https://jasna.org/austen/unexpectedlyausten/
“On Bruce Meyer’s Unobtrusive Excellence.” Bruce Meyer: Essays on His Works. Ed. Ben Berman Ghan. Gananoque (ON) & Tonawanda (NY): Guernica Editions, 2025. 75-79.
“Conditions Critical.” Review of quartet of CanLit Crit books by Shane Neilson: Retractable Devil Horns: Unfit Criticism #1, ShanCor; Personal Investments: Unfit Criticism #2, ShanCor
Marginal: Unfit Criticism #3, ShanCor; and The Negative Review: Unfit Criticism #4, ShanCor.
Canadian Literature. March 2025. On-line.
https://canlit.ca/article/condition-critical/
Review. The Meaning of Leaving by Kate Rogers. Verse Afire. 2.1 (January 2025): 41-42.
“Read for the Very First Time.” Literary Review of Canada. 32.9 (November 2024): 44.
“Remembering THE John Fraser (1928-2023).” Dalhousie University Alumni News and Spotlights. Posted September 11, 2024.
https://www.dal.ca/alumni/news-and-spotlights/alumni-news/remembering-the-john-fraser-1928-2023-george-elliott-clarke.html?utm_source=Dalhousie+Office+of+Advancement&utm_campaign=2a6d905828-EMAIL_enews-sept24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3263912293-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
“A Poem Is Silent—Unless Sung.” Liner Notes. Poetry Project. By D.D. Jackson, Independent, Toronto (ON), September 2024. 8-12.
“Introducing Awareness.” Introduction. Awareness. Poetry by Katherine L. Gordon and James Deahl. Mississauga (ON): SureWay Press Canada, 2024. 12-15.
“In Memoriam: Corrado Paina. A Collage of Impressions,” curated by GEC; includes my piece, “Radical Civilizer.” Accenti. Posted, August 16, 2024.
https://accenti.ca/in-memoriam-remembering-corrado-paina/
Review of Faithfully Seeking Franz by Elana Wolff. Verse Afire. 1.2 (June 2024): 37-38.
“Delusions of Empire: A Review of Francesco Filippi’s But We Built Roads for Them.” Accenti. 8.3 (June 2024). Posted June 19, 2024.
https://accenti.ca/delusions-of-empire-a-review-of-francesco-filippis-but-we-built-roads-for-them/
Review of The Walled Garden by Mark Frutkin. Freefall. 2024.
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-mark-frutkins-the-walled-garden/
Review of When Africa Calls Uhuru by Henry Beissel. Verse Afire: Canadian Poetry Magazine. 1.1 (January 2024): 42-43.
“Letter to the Editor.” bulletin. 70.6 (September-October 2023): 18-19.
“Ah, Auditing the Sins of Commission.” Liner Notes. Wound Turned to Light: New Songs by James Rolfe, Redshift Records, Toronto (ON), [October] 2023. 4-6.
“In Memoriam: Remembering Len Gasparini.” Curated by GEC. Posted December 19, 2022, at 1:20 p.m.
https://accenti.ca/in-memoriam-remembering-len-gasparini/
“Anecdotes About Luciano Iacobelli.” Curated by GEC. Accenti. Posted November 7, 2022, at 21:42 EST.
<https://accenti.ca/anecdotes-about-luciano-iacobelli/>
“My Autobiography Is Just a Bibliographical Appendix to My Father’s Library.” Shelf Portraits, 6 September 2022; also 24 March 2023.
https://richlerlibrary.ca/shelf-portraits/my-autobiography-is-just-a-bibliographical-appendix-to-my-fathers-library
"My Autobiography is Just a Bibliographical Appendix to my Father's Library,"
“The Price of (Self) Sacrifice.” Program Notes. Death and the King’s Horseman. By Wole Soyinka. Program. Stratford Festival: Stratford (ON), 2022. 7-8.
“To wave—or waive—the flag?” The Toronto Star, July 1, 2022.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/2022/07/01/the-symbols-of-canadas-state-carry-unpleasant-memories-for-so-many.html
“Tabillas de arcilla en la cueva de Nietzsche.” Foreword. [Colombia] 28 June 2022.
https://guajiranews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GUAJIRA-NEWS-Martes-28-de-junio-Edicion-443.pdf
“10 Writing Exercises.” Awakening the Muse: Poems, Articles and Exercises to Get Your Muse to Help You Write More Poems. Comp. & ed., I.B. Iskov. Toronto: Beret Days Press, 2022. 20-21.
“On Writing Now.” 50 years of Event Magazine: Collected Notes on Writing. Eds. Shashi Bhatt and Ian Cockfield. Event. 50.4. (2021): 44-45.
“Francesco Filippi’s Mussolini Also Did a Lot of Good.” Review. Accenti. Monday, November 29, 2021.
https://accenti.ca/francesco-filippis-mussolini-also-did-a-lot-of-good/
“Love Bleeds, Ink Stains: On Politics and/or Aesthetics in Poetry.” Foreword. Love Lies Bleeding: A Canadian Poetry Anthology. Comp. George Elliott Clarke. Toronto: The Ontario Poetry Society, 2021. 1-2.
“On the Spirituals of Funk, the Gospel of Soul, the House of Blues, the Swing of Ragtime, the Jazz of Rap: The Backbeat of Freedom and/or the Rhythm of Love.” Freedom Cabaret: Spirit and Legacy of Black Music. Cur. Beau Dixon. The Stratford Festival. (August 19-September 5, 2021.) Program notes. pp. 11-15.
https://cdscloud.stratfordfestival.ca/uploadedFiles/2021_HP_CB4_New.pdf
“Introduction to the Poet(ry).” In the Arms of the Father: Poems. By Flavia Cosma. Trans. Flavia Cosma with Charles Siedlecki. Somerville (MA): Cervena Barva Press, 2021. [ix].
“Three Questions.” The LaHave Review. Fall 2021. https://lahavereview.com
“On Translating Poetry: To Be Precise.” Foreword. Mirrors and Windows: East-West Poems with Translations. Ed. & Trans. Anna Yin. (English/Chinese/Chinese/English) Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2021. 14-17.
Preface. Clay Tablets in Nietzsche’s Cave. By Raed Anis Al-Jishi. United Arab Emirates: Sail Publishing, 2021. 3.
“Culture Change.” Letter to the Editor. Re: Canadian genocide and racism. The Globe and Mail. July 10, 2021. O10.
International Questionnaire on International Labor Day. Host: Yin Xiaoyuan. Posted: April 27, 2021.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/R-Hn8cDPX75kcVpevFrn-Q
“Yet Another Effort, Canadians, If Ya Wanna Effectively Decolonize.” Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien. 41 (2021): 181-185.
International Roundtable on Gender Equality. Host: Yin Xiaoyuan. Posted: February 23, 2021.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/aLGr8SG2UTt7EcRibQMsUQ
“Spatial Odysseys.” Foreword. Space and Place as Human Coordinates: Rethinking Dimensions across Disciplines. Eds. Arianna Maiorani and Bruna Mancini. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. vii-ix.
Review: Traveling Detours and U-Turns by d.n. (Neil) simmers. The Walrus. January/February (2021): [86].
https://thewalrus.ca/canadian-authors-pick-their-favourite-books-of-2020/
“Review: Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac by Anna Yin.” Live encounters.
https://liveencounters.net/le-books-2020/08-august-le-books-2020/george-elliott-clarke-reviewseven-nights-with-the-chinese-zodiac-by-anna-yin/
Foreword. Open Heart Forgery: 10th Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Georgia Atkin. Halifax (NS): Open Heart Forgery, 2020. iii-iv.
“100 Days of Solitude: Days on End.” The Globe and Mail. Saturday, June 20, 2020. D6.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-100-days-of-pandemic/#clarke
“Mary Shelley’s Tempest.” Introduction. Squall: Poems in the Voice of Mary Shelley. By Chad Norman. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2020. xi-xiv.
“George Elliott Clarke on Canada’s war-footing to combat coronavirus.” NOW. April 11, 2020.
https://nowtoronto.com/news/coronavirus-great-war-second-world-war-pandemic/
“Justice for Indigenous people requires discussion.” The Toronto Star. Thursday, January 16, 2020. A15.
Review of John B. Lee’s Into a Land of Strangers: Documentary Poems. Verse Afire (January
2020): [n.p.]
“The Birth of Poetry.” The Awesome Music Project: Songs of Hope and Happiness. Eds. Robert Carli & Terry Stuart. Vancouver, BC: Page Two Books, 2019. 37.
“Solar Florals: Giovanna Riccio’s Elegiac Verses.” Exile. 42.3 (2019): 98-99.
“Coming to Terms….” Global Brief. 23 (Fall/Winter 2019): 64.
“Reading Rienzi Crusz: An Elegy.” The New Quarterly. 148 (Fall 2018): 65-74.
“Re: ‘The “C” Word,’ by Andy Lamey (July-August 2018).” Literary Review of Canada. 26.8 (October 2018): 29-30.
“The Case for Secession: Our nation’s multicultural model to the world should be Canada’s 11th province.” NOW. 1897. 37.46 (August 2-8, 2018): 12.
https://nowtoronto.com/news/toronto-election-2018-doug-ford/
“Appendix: The Results of a Sesquicentennial Constitutional Assembly—a Few Modest Amendments.” Review of Constitutional Studies/Revue d’études constitutionnelles. 22.3 (2017) [2018]: 325-328.
“It’s war on Toronto: Why the feds should step in and stop Doug Ford’s plan to cut Toronto council in half.” NOW. 1902. 38.01 (September 13-19, 2018): 7.
“Why the feds should step in and stop Doug Ford’s plan to cut Toronto council in half.” NOW. Posted July 31, 2018.
https://nowtoronto.com/news/doug-ford-toronto-council/
“above/ground press 25th anniversary essay: George Elliott Clarke.” Posted on July 27, 2018.
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2018/07/aboveground-press-25th-anniversary_27.html
“Trump’s mad end.” NOW. 1892. 37.41 (June 28-July 4, 2018): 9. [In-print reprint of on-line publication of February 7, 2018.]
Foreword. “Notes Verging on a Preface.” Cradles: New and Collected Poems. By Salimah Valiani. Montreal: Daraja Press, 2018. xii-xiv.
“Must Big Oil always shaft our democracy?” NOW. 1886. 37.35 (May 17-23, 2018): 10.
“A few modest amendments to the Constitution.” Policy Options / Options politiques. February 2018.
http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/february-2018/a-few-modest-amendments-to-the-constitution/
“George Elliott Clarke ponders what Donald Trump’s big fall might look like. NOW. February 7, 2018.
https://nowtoronto.com/news/george-elliott-clarke-ponders-what-donald-trump-s-big-fall-m/
[An on-line publication.]
“George Elliott Clarke’s Modest Proposal for a Ministry of Dreams.” NOW. 1870. 37.18 (January 18-24, 2018): 10.
https://nowtoronto.com/news/george-elliott-clarke-ministry-of-dreams-canada150/
“Laureate’s Pick: George Elliott Clarke Introduces Ayesha Chatterjee.” ELQ (Exile: The Literary Quarterly). 41.2 (2017): 72.
“What was ‘Globalization’?” Global Brief. 22 (Winter 2018): 64.
“My City, My Six.” 1 sentence. Toronto Arts and Culture. Toronto: City of Toronto, 2017.
“A Story in Stone.” Canadian Geographic. (July/August 2017): 42-47.
On “Standing on Guard.” CBC Radio. June 23, 2017.
http://www.cbc.ca/2017/who-are-we-and-who-is-thee-george-elliott-clarke-ponders-standing-on-guard-1.4169248
“Like father, like son.” The Globe and Mail. Thursday, June 15, 2017. Interview with Dave McGinn.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/notable-canadian-men-share-lessons-from-their-dads-and-what-they-hope-to-passon/article35310812/
“Risky Transitions.” Global Brief. 21 (Spring 2017): 64.
“An inevitable plutocracy.” NOW. 1824. 36.20 (January 26-February 1, 2017): 13.
http://www.cbc.ca/books/2017/01/9-canadian-writers-share-their-writing-resolutions-for-2017.html
Review of Louise Bernice Halfe, Burning in this Midnight Dream. The Malahat Review. 197 (15.95, Winter 2016): 125-127.
http://malahatreview.ca/reviews/197reviews_clarke.html
“Wobbling Pivots: On pacific pivoting, and not wobbling into war.” Global Brief. (Fall 2016): 64.
“The George Elliott Clarke Reader.” Malahat Review. Summer 2016.
http://malahatreview.ca/announcements/clarke_feature.html
U of T News. July 8, 2016.
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/after-dallas-professor-george-elliott-clarke-human-rights-protest-and-law-enforcement
“My Five.” Exile: The Literary Quarterly. 40.1 (2016): 67-68.
“To speak power to truth.” Eastword. Spring 2016. 5.
http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/05/writing-tips-from-our-cbc-poetry-prize-jury.html
“The future of Canadian culture(s).” Edge. 18.1 (Spring 2016): 6.
http://research.utoronto.ca/edge/spring2016/the-future-of-canadian-cultures/
“Django unchains #oscarssowhite.” NOW. 1777. 35.24 (February 25-March 2, 2016): 9.
“I Never Knew My Father as a Motorcyclist.” The Huffington Post. February 11, 2016.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/george-elliott-clarke/the-motorcyclist-novel_b_9210152.html
“dArk mAAt’r reflections by george elliott clarke.” Howl Arts Collective. Posted: 3o November 2015.
http://howlarts.net/post/133456233545/dark-maatr-reflections-by-george-elliott-clarke
“George Elliott Clarke on ‘Flying Street’ piano/oud duets.” Howl Arts Collective. Posted: 17 November 2015.
http://howlarts.net/post/133395748760/george-elliott-clarke-on-flying-street-piano
“On Speaking ‘VOICE’: Vernacular, Orature, Imagery, Cadence, Emphasis.” ARC. 78 (Fall 2015): 6-13. Reprint: Awake to Love and Beauty: Proceedings from a Conference in Honour of George Whalley. Eds. Michael John DiSanto, Alana Fletcher, Shelley King, Jaspreet Tambar. Algoma UP, 2016, pp. 173-180.
http://georgewhalley.ca/gwps (http://www.scholarsportal.info/)
“No Grey Areas: Pierre Elliott Trudeau in Black & White.” Trudeau: La Vie En Rose. By George A. Walker. Toronto: Porcupine’s Quill, 2015. 11-16.
Preface. Young Voices 2015. Toronto Public Library. 2015.
“Harper’s X-Factor.” NOW. 1759. 35.6 (October 15-21, 2015): 20-21.
“Racing the Vote.” NOW. 1758. 35.5 (October 8-14, 2015): 16.
“Fixed date=rigged result.” NOW. 1750. 34.49 (July 13-19, 2015): 10.
“Rebooting ‘Utopia.’” Global Brief. 17 (Spring/Summer 2015): 64.
“Preface (to a Poem).” Each Book a Drum: 10 Years of Halifax Humanities. Halifax, NS: The Halifax Humanities Society, 2015. 13-14.
“White cops, Black corpses: U.S. and Canada have histories of police violence against minorities.” National Post. (Saturday, April 11, 2015): A17.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/george-elliott-clarke-white-cops-black-corpses
“Love Letter to Toronto: What’s Not to Love?.” Metro News. February 13, 2015.
“Strategy as Chess: The Checkered Record.” Global Brief. 16 (Fall/Winter 2015): 64.
“The leaps of thought.” The Dance Current. 17.5 (September/October 2014): 62.
“Neruda’s Loving Sonnets.” Exile: The Literary Quarterly. 38.1 (2014): 36-37.
“Let Us Beware of Politicized Policing….” [Reprint of “Police coup by press release.”] NOW. 1690. 33.41 (June 12-18, 2014): 11] Posted: June 25, 2014.
http://artsforum.ca/ideas/regional-perspectives
“Reverse Proust Questionnaire.” Light News. [Toronto: Luminato Festival.] 2.10 (Sunday, June 15, 2014): 2.
“Police coup by press release.” NOW. 1690. 33.41 (June 12-18, 2014): 11.
“Neruda’s Loving Sonnets.” 100 Love Sonnets: A Bilingual and English Edition. By Pablo Neruda. Trans. Gustavo Escobedo. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2014. 211-214.
“The Last Word: A Career in Verse.” Quill and Quire. 80.3 (April 2014): 42.
“Mass versus Force.” Epigram. Global Brief. 15 (Winter/Spring 2014): 64.
“On Anna Yin.” ARC. 73 (Winter 2014): 41-43.
“Evidence of Excellence.” Introduction. Selected Poems. By Flavia Cosma. Forthcoming. 2013.
“Keats, Machiavelli and Truth.” Epigram. Global Brief. 14 (Fall 2013): 64.
“Mixing It Up.” Brick 91 (Summer 2013): 182-183.
“Beatrice Chancy in Bellagio: A Memoir.” Accenti. 29 (Spring 2013): 21-22.
“Treaties get royal kiss-off.” NOW. [Toronto, ON] 32.22 (January 31-February 6, 2013): 12.
“The Lawyer: A Material Witness.” Foreword. Why Good Lawyers Matter. Eds. David L. Blaikie, Darrel Pink, and The Honourable Mr. Justice Thomas A. Cromwell. Toronto: Irwin Law Inc., 2012. vii-xi.
“The Stage Is Not White—and Neither Is Canada.” Pluralism in the Arts in Canada: A Change is Gonna Come. Ed. Charles C. Smith. Toronto & Ottawa: Our Schools/Our Selves—Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2012. 15-22.
“Claiming Africa: An Argument That Must Be Heard.” Department of African-Nova Scotian Affairs. African Diasporic Heritage Trail Conference, Halifax, NS, September 25, 2011.
adht2011.com/documents/DiasporaIdentityGClarke.pdf
“Das Kapital.” Canadian Geographic. Forthcoming.
“Africville Gothic.” Review of Big Town: A Novel of Africville by Stephens Gerard Malone. The Globe and Mail. [Toronto, ON] Monday, October 3, 2011.
“Summer with my father.” The Globe and Mail. [Toronto, ON] Saturday, August 27, 2011. A5.
Guest Editorial. Project Democracy. April 29, 2011. URL=
www.projectdemocracy.ca/george-elliott-clarke-vote-candidates-resepect-canadian-people
“Harper’s insult to our body politic.” NOW. [Toronto, ON] 30.35 (April 28-May 3, 2011).
“George Elliott Clarke.” The Spoken Word Workbook: Inspiration from Poets Who Teach. Ed.
Sheri-D Wilson. Calgary and Banff: Calgary Spoken Word Society and Banff Centre Press, 2011. 29-38.
“Of white egrets and the right regrets.” Interview with & profile of Derek Walcott. The Globe and Mail. [Toronto, ON] Saturday, November 20, 2010. R8.
Review of White Egrets. By Derek Walcott. The Pacific Rim Review of Books. 14 (Fall 2010): 6-7.
“My Books, My Place.” The Globe and Mail. [Toronto, ON] Saturday, November 13, 2010. R18.
“Hopkins’s African Sound.” 23rd Gerard Manley Hopkins International Festival, July 23-30, 2010. Archives. [Paper delivered on July 29, 2010, at Newbridge College, Newbridge, Ireland.]
http://www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org/lectures_2010/index.html
Gerard Manley Hopkins Archives
<https://www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org/lectures_2010/hopkins_and_african_writers.html>.
“The Poet as Witness: Interview with Amatoritsero Ede.” ARC. 64 (summer 2010): 64-71.
“Epigram: Artists and Revolution.” Global Brief. 2 (Fall 2009): 64.
“The Baggage Handler.” The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning. Eds. George Bowering and Jean Baird. Toronto: Random House, 2009: 68-80.
“Embracing Beatrice Chancy.” Performing Adaptations: Essays & Conversations on the Theory and Practice of Adaptation. Eds. Michelle MacArthur, Lydia Wilkinson and Keren Zaiontz. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 223-226.
“MJ: keepin’ it real.” NOW. [Toronto, ON] 28.45 (July 9-15, 2009): 16.
“Pearson.” Canada CODE (Cultural Olympiad’s Digital Edition.
https://canadacode.vancouver2010.com/
“President of all the world.” NOW. [Toronto, ON] 28.23 (February 4-11, 2009).
“Afterword: Let Us Now Attain Polyphonous Epiphanies.” Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke. Ed. Jon Paul Fiorentino. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008. 59-63.
“Upon Reading Flavia Cosma’s Thus Spoke the Sea.” Introduction. Thus Spoke the Sea. By Flavia Cosma. Ed. Charles Siedlecki. Toronto: KCLF-21 Press, 2008. 1-5.
“The polls of black folk: What you need to read about … Black U.S. politics.” The Globe and Mail. [Toronto, Ontario] (Saturday, November 8, 2008): D15.
“No chivalry for Hillary.” NOW. [Toronto, ON] #1374, 27.38 (May 22-28, 2008): 23.
“Forget that he’s black.” NOW. [Toronto, ON] #1360, 27.24 (February 14-20, 2008): 22.
“Freedom to Read.” psteven@web.ca
“Ecclesiates; or The Poet.” Introduction. The Season of Love. By Flavia Cosma. Trans. Flavia Cosma & Charles Siedlecki. West Somerville, MA: Cervena Barva Press, 2008. [vii-xii]
“A rebel yell of a generation: Three books to read about … 1968.” The Globe and Mail. [Toronto, ON] (Saturday, April 5, 2008): D15.
“Callaghan powerful.” Review of Barry Callaghan’s Hogg: The Seven Last Words. In Barry Callaghan: Essays on His Works. Ed. Priscilla Uppal. Toronto: Guernica, 2007. 174-175.
“The Odyssey of History.” The Odyssey by Derek Walcott. Programme Notes. Stratford, ON: Stratford Festival of Canada & Studio Theatre, July 27-September 28, 2007. 5-9.
“About a Poem: on Cheng Sait Chia’s ‘Death.’” Shambhala Sun. 16.1 (September 2007): 120.
“What I Believe.” Essay. CBC Radio. June 2007.
“Discovering Cheng Sait Chia.” Arc. 58 (Summer 2007): 59-75.
“Professing blackness.” Academic Matters. February 2007. 18-19.
“Waterloo English 1979-1985.” Newsletter. Department of English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo. Fall 2006. 6-7.
http://english.uwaterloo.ca/documents/Fall2006/Newsletter_010.pdf
“On ‘This Part may be cited as The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.’” Building a Just Society: A Retrospective of Canadian Rights and Freedoms. Ed. Steven Artelle. Library and Archives Canada. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/rights-and-freedoms.
On-line as of October 24, 2006.
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/politics-government/building-just-society/Pages/george-elliott-clarke.aspx
“Do You Read Me?” Reading Writers Reading: Canadian Authors’ Reflections. Photog. and ed. Danielle Schaub. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press; Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2006. 2-3.
“’Atlantica’ moves closer to U.S.” Toronto Star. Tuesday, September 12, 2006. A21.
“A Canadian is….” What Is a Canadian?: Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses. Ed. Irvin Studin. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006. 27-31.
“Art and Revolution.” The Demonstration: A Kinetic Meditation on Democracy. [Theatre Direct Canada: Toronto, ON, May 2006.]: 9.
“His incandescent shadow.” Quill & Quire. 72.5 (June 2006): 66-65.
“Flavia Cosma’s ‘Leaves of a Diary.’” [Foreword.] Leaves of a Diary. By Flavia Cosma. Trans. Matt Loftin. Toronto: Korean-Canadian Literary Forum-21, 2006. [9-11.]
“Poetic Rule: Liberty is a work of art.” The Walrus. [Toronto, ON] 3.3 (April 2006): 89-91.
“Literature.” ESC: English Studies in Canada. 30:4 (December 2004 [March 2006]): 40-43.
“Trop de déséquilibres.” La Presse. [Montreal, QC] (19 mars 2006): A13.
“The new Calgary.” The National Post. [Toronto, ON] Saturday, March 11, 2006. A20.
“Can Calgary be a city of Justice?” The Calgary Herald. [Calgary, AB] Friday, March 10, 2006.
“Lives Lived: William (Bill) Lloyd Clarke.” The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] Thursday, February 9, 2006. A22.
“George Fetherling’s Selected Poetry: An Appreciation.” George Fetherling and His Work. Ed. Linda Rogers. Toronto: Tightrope Books, 2005. 42-48.
Convocation Address—Dr —7 June 2005. University of Alberta.
“In Defence of Multiculturalism.” Partners (Spring 2005): 25-6.
Foreword. Headlight Anthology. [Concordia University] 8 (2005): 11-2.
“Undead Poets’ Society.” Idea&s: The Arts & Science Review. [University of Toronto] 1.1. (Autumn 2004): 32-3. Reprinted in The Bulletin. [University of Toronto] 60.6 ()ctober 24, 2006): 16.
Foreword. A Hair’s Breadth of Abandon: Poems. By Jason Holt. Lakeville Corner, NB: AB Collector Publishing, 2003. i-iii.
“Play Ebony, Play Ivory by Henry Dumas.” Lost Classics. Eds. Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Esta Spaulding, and Linda Spaulding. London: Bloomsbury, 2003: 29-31.
“Teenage Saint.” Brick. 70 (Spring 2003): 112-3.
“Building Bridges.” The Bulletin. [University of Toronto] 18 (May 5, 2003): 16.
“Howe’s Province House: Where the Press Won the Right to Fight the Powers That Be.” Canada Book Week: Literary Landscapes. 2. April 21-27, 2003. 8-9. [Brochure published by The Writers’ Trust of Canada.]
Foreword. Fata Morgana: Poems. By Flavia Cosma. Lewiston NY: Mellen Poetry Press, 2003. [n.p.]
Foreword. Wormwood Wine: Poems. By Flavia Cosma. Lewiston NY: Mellen Poetry Press, 2003. i-iii.
“What’s What with the Who’s Who?” Preface. Who’s Who in Black Canada. Comp. Dawn P. Williams. Toronto: d.p. williams & assoc., 2002. 12.
“On Writing Now.” Event. 31.1 (2002): 12-3.
“Who Listens to Us Now?” Commentary on Peter Gzowski. Journal of Canadian Studies. 37.1 (Spring 2002): 8-9.
“Can only white authors teach anti-racism?” The National Post. [Toronto ON] Friday, May 10, 2002. A21.
“From Onan to Lady Chatterley.” The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] Saturday, March 30, 2002. R3.
“Paradise, a poet and promised land.” Canadian Geographic. 121.1 (January/February 2001): 98. Reprinted in Viewpoints 12. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada, 2002.
“Lives Lived: Geraldine Elizabeth Clarke.” The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] Friday, May 25, 2001. A20.
“Addendum to Bartlett: A Letter from (September 5, 2000).” Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia: Newsletter. 7.2 (Fall 2000): 2-3.
“Paradise, a poet and promised land.” Canadian Geographic. 121.1 (January/February 2001): 98.
“Play Ebony, Play Ivory by Henry Dumas.” Lost Classics. Eds. Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Esta Spaulding, and Linda Spaulding. Toronto: Random House, 2000: 37-40.
“More Lost Classics: Play Ebony, Play Ivory by Henry Dumas.” Brick. 62 (Spring 1999): 48-49.
"Symposium: Will the 21st Century be an Age of Religious Revival?" [Statement.] Books in Canada. 27.1 (February 1998): 21.
"Revelationist Poetry." Introduction. And You, Blessèd Healer. By Boyd Warren Chubbs. St. John's NF: Breakwater Books, 1996. [n.p.]
"Discovering Poetry in History." Poets in the Classroom. Eds. Betsy Struthers and Sarah Klassen. Markham ON: Pembroke Publishers, 1995. 63-66.
"Why I Write About Africadia." Guest Editorial. New Maritimes. 13.2 (November/December 1994): 2. [Reprint of article first published in Possibilitiis, 1.3 (1994): 28-29.]
"Why I Write About Africadia." Possibilitiis. 1.3 (1994): 28-29.
"To Paris, Burning." Writing Away: The PEN Canada Travel Anthology. Ed. Constance Rooke. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994. 43-53.
"A Polemical Introduction." Possibilitiis [sic]. 1.1 (1993): 5.
"Section 33: The Demolition Clause in the Charter of Rights" (co-authored with Howard D. McCurdy, MP). Policy Options / Options Politiques. 13.13 (April 1992): 17-18.
"Discovering Whylah Falls." Quarry. 40.4 (Fall 1991): 80-89.
2) Reviews
“Living the Dream.” Review of King’s Dream. By Eric J. Sundquist. The Globe and Mail. [Toronto, ON] (Saturday, January 17, 2009): F8.
“Not just exotic hyphenated Canadians.” Review of Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets. Edited by Rishma Dunlop and Priscilla Uppal. The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, April 9, 2005): D6.
“Time travel in the mitten-shaped province.” Review of My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries & Preoccupations. By Howard Norman. The National Post. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, April 10, 2004): RB 7, 9.
“What’s a black man to do?” Review of We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity. By bell hooks. The Globe & Mail. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, February 21, 2004): D9.
“Black like Legree.” Review of The Known World. By Edward P. Jones. The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, November 15, 2003): D8.
“Moving novel explores unfair power relations.” Review of A Blade of Grass. By Lewis DeSoto. The National Post. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, October 18, 2003): PT11.
“Do the white thing.” Review of Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America. Eds. Carol M. Swain and Russ Nieli. The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] June 21, 2003. D24-5.
“A South you haven’t seen.” Review of Such Sweet Thunder. By Vincent O. Carter. The National Post. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, May 17, 2003): SP8.
“Who killed Martin Luther King?” Review of An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, Jr. By William F. Pepper. The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, February 1, 2003): D8-D9.
“A saga for Black Canada.” Review of Rush Home Road. By Lori Lansens. The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] April 13, 2002. D10-11.
“In defence of the ‘N-word.’” Review of Nigger: the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word. By Randall Kennedy. The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] February 16, 2002. D6-7.
"Everything African." Review of Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kwame Anthony Appiah. The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] (Friday, December 24, 1999): D8-D9.
“How Poems Work: ‘Dialogue #3: Old Man to the Squatter’ by Frederick Ward.” The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, August 5, 2000): D14.
“How Poems Work: ‘Clues’ by M. NourbeSe Philip.” The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, July 29, 2000): D14.
“How Poems Work: ‘XXIII’ by Derek Walcott.” The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, July 22, 2000): D14.
“How Poems Work: ‘Jessehelms’ by Audre Lorde.” The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, July 15, 2000): D14.
“How Poems Work: ‘On Being a Poet in Sierra Leone’ by Syl Cheney-Coker.” The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, July 8, 2000): D18.
"Found Objects." Review of In This Place....: An Exhibition of African-Nova Scotian Art. Mix: The Magazine of Artist-Run Culture. 24.1 (Summer 1998): 40-43.
“The outraged citizen-poet speaks out.” Review of A Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays by M. NourbeSe Philip. The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, March 28, 1998): D17.
“We need this book, but better.” Review of Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada. By Rinaldo Walcott. The Globe and Mail. [Toronto ON] (Saturday, November 1, 1997): D12.
"George Grant, Subversive." Review of George Grant and the Subversion of Modernity. Ed. Arthur Davis. Books in Canada. 26.7 (October 1997): 14-17.
“Form and Frame.” Poetry reviews. Books in Canada. (April 1993).
"Cool Worlds." Review of Anonymity Suite, by David McFadden, and China Blues: Poems and Stories, by David Donnell. Books in Canada. 21.5 (Summer 1992): 49.