Poetry Books by Austin Clarke
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published Date: 2013
Categories: Poetry
Three Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to the war in Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the steps of their armoury after a night of heavy drinking. The poet, whose downtown Toronto home overlooks the armoury and surrounding park, describes the crime, its perpetrators, the victim, and a cast of homeless witnesses that includes the woman, a prostitute, who first alerts police. The subsequent trial evokes reflection on the immigrant experience the poet shares with one of the accused, and on the agony of that young soldier? mother. From Kandahar to Bridgetown to Mississauga, Ontario, Where the Sun Shines Best encompasses a tragedy of epic scope, a lyrical meditation on poverty, racism and war, and a powerful indictment of the ravages of imperialism.
Publisher: Peepal Tree PressLtd
Published Date: 2011
Categories: Fiction
In 1961 Barbados a canecutter longing for a better life decides to take a stand against the colonial state but is undermined by his naivety, ignorance and misogyny.
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
Published Date: 1986
Categories: Fiction
A collection of short stories portrays the experiences of members of the West Indian community in Toronto
Publisher: New York : New Press
Published Date: 2000
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
A Carribean memoir that is part cookbook and part family history offers engaging descriptions of how to cook the dishes of Barbados.
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Published Date: 2007
Categories: Fiction
A compelling collection that explores the lives of Afro-Caribbean immigrants living in Canada, these eight short stories delve into the experiences of displaced persons living in contemporary society--all with a richness of language and rhythm that is authentically urban.
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Published Date: 2003
Categories: Authors, Barbadian
An autobiographical account of growing up in colonial Barbados during and after the Second World War.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published Date: 2012-08-07
Categories: Fiction
"The West Indians' primitive vitality and humanity in Storm of Fortune is rendered in ... some of the most delightful dialogue to see print in many a long year." -Library Journal
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Published Date: 2008
Categories: Poetry
Austin Clarke's first book of poetry was published in 1917, his last in 1971. In a writing life spanning much of the twentieth century, Clarke created from his early, Yeatsian immersion in Gaelic myth and literature a poetry of passionate, idiosyncratic modernity, rooted in place and time, universal in its resonance. His is poetry, writes Christopher Ricks, of 'delicate and dancing interlacings' which is also 'simple as join-hands'. Clarke can be challengingly elliptical or as robust and earthy as folk tradition; he dares the terrors of the damaged soul. His later poems Thomas Kinsella described in The Dual Tradition as 'wickedly glittering narratives ... poetry as pure entertainment, serious and successful'.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published Date: 2012-10-23
Categories: Fiction
This is Austin Clarke's acclaimed trilogy about a group of West Indian domestics, their friends, lovers, spouses, and employers living in Toronto. In rich, exuberant language, Clarke illuminates a world inhabited by earthy, garrulous, but terribly isolated people, all living, working and struggling with the alien, White, Canadian culture. Dominated by warm, superbly drawn characters and capped by vibrant, unerring dialogue, The Toronto Trilogy is a devastating and brilliant commentary on the quest for success in North America, and it established Austin Clarke as a major Canadian writer.
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Published Date: 2008
Categories: Fiction
Poignantly capturing the sorrow and torment of the dispossessed, this collection of stories focuses on the contemporary experiences of urban dwellers longing for a place to call home. Private lives and intimate pains are made public, and the rawness of the moment is redeemed by the elegance of Clarke's prose and the innate sympathy of his eye.
