Jan Zwicky, a Governor General’s Award winner, has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Thirty-Seven Small Songs and Thirteen Silences. Her books of philosophy include Wisdom & Metaphor and Lyric Philosophy, which will be reissued by Gaspereau Press in 2010. Plato as Artist was released by Gaspereau in the fall of 2009.



Events featuring Jan Zwicky:


  1. 1.Main Stage Event (Starting Points: History, Imagination, Experience, with host Bill Richardson, also featuring Joy Kogawa, Deborah Willis and Charlotte Gill) 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Saturday, July 17 at the Community Hall.

  2. 2.Themed Reading (Polyphony: a two-voiced poetry reading and talk with Robert Bringhurst & Jan Zwicky) 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Friday, July 16 at the Back Hall.

 

Jan Zwicky

Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival

photo by Bowman