In Zanzibar, in 2008, George Elliott Clarke began to write his \u00ab\u00a0Canticles,\u00a0\u00bb an epic poem treating the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Imperial and colonial conquest, and the resistance to all these evils. That is the subject of Canticles I (MMXVI) and (MMXVII). In Canticles II (MMXIX) and (MMXX), Clarke rewrites significant scriptures from an oral and \u00ab\u00a0African\u00a0\u00bb or \u00ab\u00a0Africadian\u00a0\u00bb perspective. Now, in Canticles III (MMXXII) and (MMXXIII), Clarke shifts focus\u2014from world history and theology \u2014 to the specific history and bios associated with the creation of the African (\u00ab\u00a0Africadian\u00a0\u00bb) Baptist Association of Nova Scotia. By so doing he concludes the most remarkable epic ever essayed in Canadian letters \u2014 an amalgam of Pound and Walcott \u2014 but entirely and inimitably his own<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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