Lillian Allen

(1970s - )
Lillian Allen, currently Toronto’s Poet Laureate, has lived in the St. Clair West neighbourhood for most of her 60 year sojourn in Toronto. This exciting interview brings glimpses of the neighbourhood and shares the importance of St. Clair West to the black and West Indian communities in Toronto over that period. Lillian Allen traces her own journey as an educator, poet and activist over these testing and sometimes triumphant times - against the backdrop of the St. Clair West community she calls home.