Clive Doucet
Clive Doucet is a Canadian writer and politician of Acadian descent.
In 2005 he published Acadian Memories, a collaboration with photograher Francois Gaudet. This coffee-table book is a keepsake of the Third Acadian World Congress held in Ste Anne, Nova Scotia in 2004. His 1999 Canadian bestseller Notes From Exile profiles his visit to the 1994 First Acadian World Congress in New Brunswick. His other books include Lost and Found in Acadie (2004), a meditation on Acadian history, the Great Expulsion and his visit to the Second Acadian World Congress in Louisiana in 1999, Canal Seasons (2003), his fourth collection of poetry and My Grandfather's Cape Breton (originally 1980, republished in 2003), a memoir of summer boyhood visits to his grandfather on the family farm on Cape Breton Island in the 1960's.
Out of Print titles. Disneyland Please, novel, 1978, shortlisted for the W.H. Smith First Novel Award; Before Star Wars, poetry, 1981; John Coe's War, novel, 1983; Gospel According to Mary Magdalene, novel, 1990; Priest's Boy, short stories, 1992; Debris of Planets,poetry, 1993. Looking for Henry, poetry, 1999 may still be available in some stores.
Plays produced. Hatching Eggs, National Arts Centre, Ottawa,1976; A Very Desirable Residence, Penguin Performance Company, Ottawa??, 1978; Chicken Delight, CBC Playhouse (radio), 1978; May the Best Man Win,??; The Chez Lucien is Dead (with Wayne Rostad), ??.
Doucet lives in Ottawa, Ontario, where he is a city councillor for Capital Ward, which includes The Glebe, Old Ottawa South, Old Ottawa East, Riverview Park, Carleton University and Heron Park.
See also: 2003 Ottawa election