Fred Wah

Series of short sketches, about Wah{u2019}s father{u2019}s modern Chinese-Canadian restaurant in Nelson, BC, explore finding identity being mixed raced in a small Canadian town.

Diamond Grill

Poetics and Hybridity (The Writer As Critic Series, 7)

Faking It

An important and enduring long poem from the most poetical of the TISH poets.

Breathin' My Name with a Sigh

Waiting for Saskatchewan

Rita Wong

Stemming from a 114-foot-long installation, Beholden: A Poem As Long As the River by acclaimed poets Fred Wah and Rita Wong aim to synthesize the poets' experiences along the Columbia River with analyses of contemporary and historical research material, thereby contributing to a larger dialogue around the river through visual art, writing and public engagement.

A Poem As Long As the River

Beholden

Pictograms from the Interior of B.C.

Life-long poem project from the Governor General's Award-winning former parliamentary poet laureate.

Music at the Heart of Thinking

According to Fred Wah, the act of thinking critically is one of exploration and discovery. In this book, Wah demonstrates how writing poetry is writing critically. This scrapbook of Wah's work -- collected from fifteen years of his writing -- contains essays, reviews, journals, notes and, most importantly, poetic improvisations on contemporary poetry and identity. Faking It was written between 1984 and 1999 -- during major shifts in critical thinking and cultural production -- and the hybrid style of the book is an apt reflection of these changing times, as well as a reflection and study of Wah's own hybrid identity.

Fred Wah

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