Maxine Beneba Clarke

Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer and slam poetry champion of Afro-Caribbean descent. She is the author of the poetry collections Gil Scott Heron is on Parole (2010) and Nothing Here Needs Fixing (2013), and the fiction collection Foreign Soil (2014).

Works By Maxine Beneba Clarke

Under New Management
The voices and stories of Ahmad, Polites and Carman work incredibly well together to create an interwoven picture of the lives of these young men in the suburbs of their youth. In this respect, Three Jerks cuts through the homogeneity of media ima...
27 June. 2014

Works Featuring Maxine Beneba Clarke

True Colours: The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
What was it like growing up black in Kellyville in suburban Sydney in the 1980s? In her memoir, Maxine Beneba Clarke unflinchingly reveals the co-dependency of victims and perpetrators; the self-hatred resulting from the hatred of others that raci...
15 Dec. 2016
Listen: Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Speaking and writing, in Foreign Soil, are never simple acts. Both are, of course, embedded within the body, and as such are deeply personal and even instinctual; but they are, at the same time, inextricably implicated in wider social circuits of
25 June. 2014