Karl Jirgens is the author of four books including two works of fiction published by Coach House Press and Mercury Press, and two scholarly studies published by ECW Press.
He has edited two books, one on Canadian painter Jack Bush (Coach House Press), and another on poet, Christopher Dewdney (Wilfrid Laurier UP). His fiction and poetry appears in Canadian journals such as The Tamarack Review, Impulse, Descant, The Journal of Canadian Fiction, Inter, Filling Station, and internationally in The Ontario Review (USA), Tyuonyi (USA), UNIverse (Germany), Essex (USA), the International Symposia of Concrete & Visual Poetry (Australia), and Offerte Speciale (Italy), among others.
His scholarly articles on contemporary literature appear in international journals such as La Revista Canaria de Etudio Ingleses (Spain), Q/W/E/R/T/Y (France), Open Letter (Canada), and World Literature Today (USA), Baltic Postocolnialism (Netherlands), and Canadian Literature (Canada).
He wrote the entry on Jacques Lacan for the Dictionary of Literary Biography edition on Twentieth Century European Cultural Theorists. His additional fictional works have been anthologized by Coach House Press, Black Moss Press, Mercury Press and Teksteditions.
He has recently guest edited an edition of the influential literary journal, Open Letter. Jirgens’ theatre / performance works have been presented nationally and internationally including at the Ultimatum Fest in Montreal and at the INTER-Festival in Quebec City. Jirgens has edited Rampike, the international literary journal of contemporary art and writing, since 1979.
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