Songs for Relinquishing the Earth by Jan Zwicky - Passing Sangudo (Brick Books) - Brick Books Poetry Map (sitios de interés)

Songs for Relinquishing the Earth by Jan Zwicky won the 1999 Governor General's Award for Poetry and was nominated for the BC Book Prize for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award. Songs for Relinquishing the Earth contains many poems of praise and grief for the imperilled earth drawing frequently on Jan Zwicky's experience as a musician and philosopher and on the landscapes of the prairies and rural Ontario.

Songs for Relinquishing the Earth was first published by the author in 1996 as a hand-made book, each copy individually sewn for its reader in response to a request. It appeared between plain covers on recycled stock, with a small photo (of lavender fields) pasted into each copy. The only publicity was word of mouth.