JAN ZWICKY
Globe and Mail Update Published on Friday, Jul. 08, 2005 1:12PM EDT Last updated on Tuesday, Apr. 07, 2009 10:45PM EDT
Jan Zwicky is a musician, philosopher and award-winning poet. Thirty-seven Small Songs and Thirteen Silences is her sixth collection of poems. In 1999 her collection Songs for Relinquishing the Earth won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. In 2004 her philosophic work Wisdom and Metaphor (Gaspereau Press, 2003) and poetry collection Robinson's Crossing were both nominated for Governor General's Awards. Zwicky grew up in the prairies and has since spent time in New Brunswick, Ontario and Vancouver Island. She currently teaches philosophy at the University of Victoria.
• reads from her new book
Small Song: Height of Summer
Before breakfast is finished, the cicadas have begun:
the fly-casts, then the home runs of their drones
arc through the trees.
Love, too, is sometimes like that languid flashing line.
Hey-cicadas: it's morning again!
A morning that's a day that is a year.
Small song for the voice of the nuthatch
Such a brilliant day,
the sycamores
bronze rapids overhead,
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