WORKS

POETRY

Thirty-Seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2005.

Robinson’s Crossing. London, ON: Brick Books, 2004.

Wisdom & Metaphor. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2003.

Twenty-one Small Songs. Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 2000.

Songs for Relinquishing the Earth. London, ON: Brick Books, 1998.

The New Room. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1989.

Wittgenstein Elegies. Edmonton: Academic Printing & Publishing, 1986.

Where Have We Been. Ilderton, ON: Brick Books, 1982.

OTHER WORK

Contemplation and Resistance: A Conversation. with Tim Lilburn. Saskatoon: JackPine Press, 2003.

Zwicky, Jan and Brad Cran, eds. Why I Sing the Blues: Lyrics & Poems. Vancouver : Smoking Lung Press, 2001.

Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, op. 115. Madeira Park, BC: High Ground Press, 1994.

High Ground Broadsheets: Second Series 1990-1994. Madeira Park, BC: High Ground Press, 1994.

Lyric Philosophy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.

A Theory of Ineffability. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1982.

CRITICISM

Bartlett, Brian, Ross Leckie and Anne Simpson. “In Conversation: Brian Bartlett, Ross Leckie, and Anne Simpson Discuss Jan Zwicky’s Wisdom & Metaphor, Published by Gaspereau Press, 2004.” Fiddlehead (2004): 82.

Dickinson, Adam. “Lyric Ethics: Ecocriticism, Material Metaphoricity, and the Poetics of Don McKay and Jan Zwicky.” Canadian Poetry (2004/2005): 34.

Greenstein, Michael. “The Muse of Metaphysics.” Books in Canada 33.2 (2004): 42.

Harris, John. “Scaffoldings of Weary Words: Jan Zwicky’s Wittgenstein Elegies.” Essays on Canadian Writing 37 (1989): 65-68.

Lilburn, Tim. Rev. of Songs for Relinquishing the Earth, by Jan Zwicky. Fiddlehead (1999): 106.

Mclennan, Rob. Rev. of Songs for Relinquishing the Earth, by Jan Zwicky. Books in Canada 28.5 (1999): 49.

Sanger, Peter. “Almost Blind with Light . . . Jan Zwicky.” Antigonish Review (2004): 7-14.

Thompson, Elizabeth. “Celebration.” Rev. of The New Room, by Jan Zwicky. Canadian Literature (1991): 145.
AWARDS

1999: Governor General’s Award, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
BIOGRAPHY
Jan Zwicky – poet, essayist, philosopher, musician – was born in Northern Alberta. She currently teaches philosophy at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, and has taught both philosophy and creative writing at numerous universities and writing centres. She earned her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. As a violinist, she has played with many Canadian orchestras. Her passions for music and philosophy are often the focus of her poetic work, and her theoretical essays call attention to these overlaps. Zwicky also works as an editor for Ontario poetry publishers Brick Books.

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