Poetry Books

• Illuminated Verses. Canadian Scholars Press ; Kellom Press, 2005.
• Blue. [poems] Vancouver : Polestar, 2001. 157 p. ISBN: 1551924145
• Execution poems : the Black Acadian tragedy of "George and Rue." [poems] Wolfville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2001. 44 p. ISBN: 1894031482
  Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry, 2001
  
• Lush dreams, blue exile. [poems] Porter's Lake, N.S.: Pottersfield Press, 1994. 95 p. ISBN: 0919001831
• Whylah Falls. [poems] Winlaw, B.C.: Polestar Press, c1990 159 p. ISBN: 0919591574
• Saltwater spirituals and deeper blues. [poems] Porters Lake, N.S. : Pottersfield Press, 1983. 96 p. ISBN: 0919001130; ISBN: 0919001122

Editor of Anthologies

• Eyeing the north star : directions in African-Canadian literature. Edited by George Elliott Clarke. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, c1997. 268 p. ISBN: 0771021259
• Fire on the water : an anthology of black Nova Scotian writing. Edited by George Elliott Clarke. Porter's Lake, N.S.: Pottersfield, c1991-1992. 2 v. ISBN: 091900167X; ISBN 0919001718
• Border lines : contemporary poems in English. Edited by J.A. Wainwright, George Elliot Clarke and others. Mississauga, Ont.: Copp Clark, 1995. 465 p. ISBN: 0773053425

Other

• Trudeau : long march, shining path, Kentville, N.S. : Gaspereau Press, 2007.
• George & Rue: A Novel, HarperCollins, 2004; Secker & Warburg, 2005; Carroll & Graf, 2006.
• Québécité: A Jass Fantasia in Three Cantos,Gaspereau Press, 2003.
• Beatrice Chancy. [play].Victoria, B.C. : Polestar Book Publishers, c1999. 157 p. .ISBN: 1896095941
• Odysseys home : mapping African-Canadian literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 491 p. ISBN: 0802043763 (bound) ISBN: 0802081916 (pbk.)

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