The SoundBox Collection
Fred Wah talks to Brian Fawcett and reads poetry on Mountain Pass Radio Citation: Wah, Fred. “Mountain Pass: Fred Wah.” 2022.003.065, Fred Wah Fonds. SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. Citation: Wah, Fred. “Mountain Pass: Fred Wah.” 2022.003.065, Fred Wah Fonds. SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. On 22 […]
Fred Wah reads from one of his earliest collections of poems.
By Klara du Plessis On 3 February 1972 at 8pm, Fred Wah was recorded on ¼ inch magnetic tape reading at Malaspina College (now Vancouver Island University) in Nanaimo, B.C. The event was sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and formed part of a two-month series that included other poets such as Stan Persky and Robert Kroetsch. The reel-to-reel is part of the Fred Wah fonds in the SoundBox Collection at the University […]
This recording consists of a feature-length reading by Fred Wah, hosted by Morris Donaldson, at Malaspina College (now Vancouver Island University) in Nanaimo, B.C., 3 Feburary 1972. See the exhibit “World word alive”: Fred Wah at Malaspina” for further context. —Klara du Plessis | Bibliography Fred Wah Digital Archive: https://fredwah.ca/ Wah, Fred. Lardeau. Island Press, 1965. —. Mountain. Audit / East […]
The opening of “Hearing the Interior with Fred Wah and Pauline Butling” exhibition featured readings by Daphne Marlatt, Sharon Thesen, Erin Scott, Deanna Fong, and Klara du Plessis.