Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962-1991

Fred Wah’s career has spanned six decades and a range of formal styles and preoccupations. Scree collects Wah’s concrete and sound poetry of the 1960s, his landscape—centric work of the 1970s, and his ethnicity—oriented poems of the 1980s. Fred was a founding member of the avant—garde TISH group, which helped turn Canadian poetry, in the West in particular, to a focus on language. He has said that his “writing has been sustained, primarily, by two interests: racial hybridity and the local.”

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