Canada’s poet laureate gets to work

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Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke says he wants parliamentarians to consider the impact poetry has on politics and public policy.
When three-year old George Elliott Clarke awoke from his afternoon nap by the sudden rapture of noise and chaos that was slowly trickling onto the streets of Halifax on Nov, 22, 1963, little did he know that the world he left behind in his childlike slumber would not be the same. At approximately 3...

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