Tag: Frederick James Wah

  • Waiting For Saskatchewan Turnstone Press 1985 96 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0888011008 Fred Wah Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry 1985 Wah interprets memory—a journey to China and Japan, his father’s experience as a Chinese immigrant in small Canadian towns, images from childhood—to locate the influence of genealogy. The procession of narrative reveals Wah’s…

  • Appointment of a new Parliamentary Poet Laureate Parliament of Canada 2011-12-20 December 20, 2011 (Ottawa) – The Speaker of the Senate, the Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, and the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Honourable Andrew Scheer, today announced the appointment of Fred Wah as Canada’s next Parliamentary Poet Laureate [2011-2013], effective immediately. Mr.…

  • The False Laws of Narrative: The Poetry of Fred Wah Wilfrid Laurier University Press October 2009 102 pages Paper ISBN13: 978-1-55458-046-0 Fred Wah, Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate Edited by: Louis Cabri, Associate Professor of English University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the…