Jan Zwicky

Jan Zwicky (born 10 May 1955) is a Canadian philosopher, poet, essayist, and violinist.

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Zwicky attended the University of Toronto, where she earned a PhD, submitting a thesis entitled "A Theory of Ineffability."

Zwicky lives in Victoria, British Columbia and is an associate professor at the University of Victoria.

Bibliography

Poetry

*"Where Have We Been" - 1982
*"Wittgenstein Elegies" - 1986
*"The New Room" - 1989
*"Songs for Relinquishing the Earth" - 1996, 1998 (winner of the 1999 Governor General's Award for Poetry)
*"21 Small Songs" - 2000
*"Robinson's Crossing" - 2004 (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Award for Poetry)
*"Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences" - 2005 (shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)

Philosophy

*"Lyric Philosophy" - 1992
*"Wisdom & Metaphor" - 2003 (shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Award for Nonfiction)

Anthologies

*"Why I Sing The Blues" - 2001 (with Brad Cran)
*"Dream Logic and the Politics of Interpretation" & "Once Upon a Time in the West: Heidegger and the Poets" - 2002 from "Thinking and Singing: Poetry & The Practice of Philosophy" (edited by Tim Lilburn, with an introduction by Brian Bartlett) (includes works by Robert Bringhurst, Dennis Lee, Tim Lilburn, and Don McKay)
*"Lyric, Narrative, Memory" - 2006 from "A Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry & Memory" (includes works by Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, and Anne Simpson)