Clarke's Whylah Falls was one of the selected books in the 2002 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by Nalo Hopkinson.

Bibliography

Poetry Collections
Saltwater Negro spiritual & Deeper Blues - 1983 Whylah Lessens - 1990 Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fleeting Verse form 1978-1993 - 1994 Gold Indigoes - 1999 Execution Verse form: A Melanize Acadian Tragedy of George & Rue - 2001 Blue - 2001

Plays
Whylah Lessens: A Play - 1999 Beatrice Chancy - 1999

Novels
George & Rue - 2004

Anthologies Edited
Eyeing a Polar star: Directions within African-American Literature - 1997 Fire on the A water system: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing (ii volumes) - 2002

Academic Books
Odysseys Front yard: Mapping African-American Literature - 2002