Jan Zwicky

Jan Zwicky is a musician, philosopher and award-winning poet. In 1999, she won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry for Songs for Relinquishing the Earth. Her Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences was also nominated for the Pat Lowther Award and the Dorothy Livesay Prize in 2006.



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Forge
Jan Zwicky

2011 / Poetry / $19.95
9781554470976 / Trade paper / 80 pp


This new collection from Jan Zwicky is a set of variations that employs a restricted, echoic vocabulary to explore themes of spiritual catastrophe, transformation and erotic love. Zwicky is a philosopher, musician and award-winning poet who lives on Quadra Island, British Columbia. Her most recent collection of poetry is Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences. Her critically acclaimed books of philosophy, Lyric Philosophy and Wisdom & Metaphor, have recently been reissued in hardcover by Gaspereau Press.

Finalist for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize.

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Other Books by this Author

Lyric Philosophy
Jan Zwicky

2011 / Philosophy / $74.95 CAN
9781554470884 / Hardcover / 896 pp
Plato as Artist
Jan Zwicky

2009 / Philosophy / $25.95 CAN
9781554470754 / Trade paper / 112 pp
Wisdom & Metaphor
Jan Zwicky

2008 / Philosophy / $41.95 CAN
9781554470549 / Hardcover / 320 pp
A Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry & Memory
Jan Zwicky, Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, Anne Simpson

2006 / Essays / $22.95 CAN
9781554470303 / Trade paper / 96 pp
Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences
Jan Zwicky

2005 / Poetry / $49.95 CAN
9781554470006 / Fine / 80 pp
Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences
Jan Zwicky

2005 / Poetry / $18.95 CAN
9781554470013 / Trade paper / 80 pp
Wisdom & Metaphor
Jan Zwicky

2003 / Philosophy / $69.95 CAN
9781894031813 / Fine / 288 pp
Wisdom & Metaphor
Jan Zwicky

2003 / Philosophy / $31.95 CAN
9781894031783 / Trade paper / 288 pp

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