George Elliott Clarke, acclaimed author of the poetry collections Black and Blue is featured in Canadian Literature’s Summer 2006 issue (CL#189), which focuses on The Literature of Atlantic Canada.

The issue celebrates the writers and writing of Canada’s Atlantic provinces and features criticism and articles alongside a selection of book reviews and original poetry.

This issue contains:
- Two new poems by George Elliott Clarke (Annanpolis Valley Sanskrit and Halifax),
- An article by Clarke about Anna Minerva Henderson, “Anna Minerva Henderson: An Afro-New Brunswick Response to Canadian (Modernist) Poetry”,
- and, an article by Katherine Larson titled “Resistance from the Margins in George Eilliott Calrke’s Beatrice Chancy”. 

George Elliott Clarke is the E. J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. His awards include the Portia White Prize, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship, a Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Achievement Award and a Trudeau Foundation Fellowship. His book Whylah Falls was a CBC Canada Reads finalist.