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Fred Wah

Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939, celebrated Canadian poet Fred Wah was raised in the interior of British Columbia. He is the author of over 20 published works of poetry and prose-poetry, including the award-winning creative non-fiction Diamond Grill, the tenth anniversary edition of which was released in the fall of 2006. Other notable titles by Wah include his book of poetry Waiting For Saskatchewan (Turnstone Press), winner of a Governor General’s Award in 1985, and Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity, winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Writing in Canadian literature. In 2008, he published a collection of poetic image/text projects titled Sentenced to Light (Talonbooks), and in 2010, he won the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize for poetry for is a door (Talonbooks).Fred Wah was one of the founding editors of the poetry journal TISH. After graduate work in literature and linguistics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and the State University of New York in Buffalo, where he worked with Robert Creeley and Charles Olson, he returned to Canada. He has been involved in teaching internationally in poetry and poetics since the early 1960s. In 2011, Wah became Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate, the fifth poet to do so. In 2013, he was made an Officer in the Order of Canada. Fred Wah currently works and lives in Vancouver.

Books by Fred Wah

Laurier Poetry Pack #5

by (author) Dionne Brand, Paul Dutton, Gary Barwin, Al Purdy, Fred Wah & Louise Bernice Halfe
edited by Leslie C. Sanders, Robert Budde, Louis Cabri & David Gaertner

Music at the Heart of Thinking

Improvisations 1–170

by (author) Fred Wah

Laurier Poetry Pack #4

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

edited by Robert Budde, Leslie C. Sanders, Gary Barwin, Louis Cabri & Heather Milne
by (author) Al Purdy, Dionne Brand, Paul Dutton, Fred Wah & Rachel Zolf

beholden

a poem as long as the river

by (author) Fred Wah & Rita Wong

Scree

The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962–1991

by (author) Fred Wah
introduction by Jeff Derksen

Toward. Some. Air.

Remarks on Poetics of Mad Affect, Militancy, Feminism, Demotic Rhythms, Emptying, Intervention, Reluctance, Indigeneity, Immediacy, Lyric Conceptualism, Commons, Pastoral Margins, Ambivalence, Desire, Disability, The Digital, and Other Practices

edited by Amy De'Ath & Fred Wah

Permissions: TISH Poetics 1963 Thereafter -

by (author) Fred Wah

False Laws of Narrative, The

The Poetry of Fred Wah

by (author) Fred Wah & Louis Cabri

The False Laws of Narrative

The Poetry of Fred Wah

by (author) Fred Wah
edited by Louis Cabri

is a door

by (author) Fred Wah

Sentenced to Light

by (author) Fred Wah

Diamond Grill

10th Anniversary Edition

by (author) Fred Wah

Faking It

Poetics and Hybridity: Critical Writing 1984-1999

by (author) Fred Wah

Diamond Grill

by (author) Fred Wah

Waiting For Saskatchewan

by (author) Fred Wah

Breathin' My Name with a Sigh

by (author) Fred Wah