List of Zurich Texts
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| Author | Title | Year | Genre | Country | Locations |
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| Berrigan, Ted | "Air" | 1981 | poetry | USA | Cabaret Voltaire |
| Berrigan, Ted | "[It's Morning]" | 1981 | poetry | USA | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Cane, Melville | "In Zurich" | 1936 | poetry | USA | Baur au Lac |
| Carver, Raymond | "In Switzerland" | 1985 | poetry | USA | Fluntern Cemetery / Zoo Zürich |
| Carver, Raymond | "The Poem I Didn't Write" | 1985 | poetry | USA | Lindenhof |
| Cicindela | "Ida of Zurich" | 1837 | poetry | UK | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Clifton, Harry | "A Spider Dance on the Bahnhofstrasse" | 1995 | poetry | Ireland | Bahnhofsstrasse / Paradeplatz |
| Cohen, Leonard | "[It's Going to Be Like This]" | 2000 | poetry | Canada | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Coleman, Elliott | "Joyce's Grave: Friedhof Fluntern, Zurich" | 1958 | poetry | USA | Fluntern Cemetery / Zoo Zürich |
| Coles, Don | "[Another dream. I stand looking down]" | 1987 | poetry | Canada | Limmat |
| Coles, Gladys Mary | "Couchette – Zurich to Bruxelles" | 2001 | poetry | UK (England) | Platzspitz / Swiss National Museum (Landesmuseum) |
| Coles, Gladys Mary | "Trapeze" | 2001 | poetry | UK (England) | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Crawford, Robert | "Acceptance Speech" | 2003 | poetry | UK (Scotland) | Zoo Zürich |
| Crawford, Robert | "Arbuthnott" | 2003 | poetry | UK (Scotland) | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Domett, Alfred | "A Reveille: Lake Zurich" | 1877 | poetry | UK (England) | Lake Zurich |
| Doyle, Mike | "Arp & Richter Meet on the Zurich Bahnhofstrasse" | 1976 | poetry | UK (England) / Canada | Bahnhofsstrasse 41 |
| Dyment, Clifford | "Bahnhofstrasse" | 1955 | poetry | UK (Wales) | Bahnhofsstrasse |
| Dyment, Clifford | "Joyce in Zürich" | 1955 | poetry | UK (Wales) | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Essbaum, Jill Alexander | "Zürich Hauptbahnhof" | 2020 | poetry | USA | Lake Zurich / Zürichhorn |
| Essbaum, Jill Alexander | "Zürichhorn" | 2020 | poetry | USA | Lindenhof / Main Station (HB) |
| Evans, Kate | Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg | 2015 | other | UK (England) | Swiss National Museum / University of Zurich |
| Firer, Susan | "Under the Blue Angel in the Zurich Train Station" | 2016 | poetry | USA | Fluntern Cemetery / Main Station (HB) / Zoo Zürich |
| Friebert, Stuart | "In Zurich" | 1974 | poetry | USA | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Friebert, Stuart | "The Lion's Picture" | 1970 | poetry | USA | Fluntern Cemetery / Zoo Zürich |
| Friebert, Stuart | "The Tornado Month" | 2014 | poetry | USA | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Gayton, Tomás (a.k.a. Thomas L. Gayton) | "Platzspitz (Needle Park)" | 2000 | poetry | USA | Platzspitz ('Needle Park') |
| Hagan, Patricia | Love and Triumph | 1991 | novel | USA | Schlüsselgasse |
| Harwood, Gwen | "In Zurich by the Tideless Lake" | 1963 | poetry | Australia | Bürkliplatz / Ganymede Statue / Lake Zurich |
| Hashmi, Alamgir | "At Prayer in Zürich" | 1988 | poetry | Pakistan | Paradeplatz |
| Hashmi, Alamgir | "Because You Really Wanted to Know How It Really Was" | 1982 | poetry | Pakistan | Jelmoli (Seidengasse 1) |
| Hashmi, Alamgir | "Zürich Is a White Rose" | 1988 | poetry | Pakistan | Lake Zurich |
| Hazo, Samuel John | "Dublin Twilight" | 1981 | poetry | USA | Fluntern Cemetery |
| Hazo, Samuel John | "Splitting" | 1974 | poetry | USA | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Hazo, Samuel John | "Yes" | 2016 | poetry | USA | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Howard, Richard | "Portrait of Pierre Loti by Henri Rousseau, 1906 (Kunsthaus Zurich)" | 1984 | poetry | USA | Kunsthaus |
| Jain, Sudhir | "Isolde's Dream" | 2007 | short story | India / Canada | Villa Wesendonck |
| James, Clive | "To Michael Frayn: A Letter from Leningrad" | 1985 or earlier | poetry | Australia | Spiegelgasse 14 |
| Jeffers, Robinson | "After Lake Leman" | 1962 or earlier | poetry | USA | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Johnson, Kent | "Poetry Blogs (of the Fourth Generation) in Zürich" | 2008 | poetry | USA | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Johnson, Louis | "Homage to Dada: Zurich 1916: Café Voltaire" | 1954 | poetry | New Zealand | Cabaret Voltaire |
| Joyce, James | "Bahnhofstrasse" | 1918 | poetry | Ireland | Bahnhofsstrasse |
| Joyce, James | "Goodbye Zurich" | 1934 | poetry | Ireland | Lake Zurich |
| Kavanagh, P. J. | "Not Being a Man of Action" | 1967 | poetry | UK (England) | Spiegelgasse 14 |
| Kelly, John | "Fluntern Cemetery, Zurich" | 1991 | poetry | Ireland | Fluntern Cemetery / Zoo Zürich |
| Kemp, Jan | "Chagall Windows, Fraumünster, Zürich" | 1987 | poetry | New Zealand | Fraumünster |
| Laughlin, James | "The Hetaera" | 1996 | poetry | USA | Dolder |
| Lobanov-Rostovsky, Sergey | "Cabaret Voltaire" | 1987 | poetry | USA | Cabaret Voltaire |
| Mason, Stanley | "Evening by the Limmat, Zurich" | 1970 or earlier | poetry | USA | Limmat |
| Mason, Stanley | "Night over Zurich" | 1970 or earlier | poetry | USA | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Maurer-Alvarez, Pansy | "Hot Weather Blues for Limmatquai" | 1996 | poetry | USA (Puerto Rico) | Limmatquai |
| McDonagh, Philip | "In Fluntern Cemetery" | 2003 | poetry | Ireland | Fluntern Cemetery |
| Meinke, Peter | "Cabaret Voltaire" | 1974 | poetry | USA | Cabaret Voltaire |
| Middleton, Christopher | "Hotel Linde, Zürich-Oberstrass" | 1961 or earlier | poetry | UK (England) | Linde Oberstrass |
| Middleton, Christopher | "The Lake of Zürich" | 1961 or earlier | poetry | UK (England) | Lake Zurich |
| Moore, Daniel Abdal-Hayy | "Zurich Bird" | 2008 | poetry | USA | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Peck, John | "A Weaving at the Zollbrücke in Zurich" | 1986 | poetry | USA | Zollbrücke |
| Petersen, Donald | "Two at Zürich" | 1963 | poetry | USA | Dolder |
| Pettigrew, Richard C. | "Sunday Morning in Switzerland" | 1974 | poetry | USA | Grossmünster / Lake Zurich |
| Ramanujan, A. K, | "A Report" | 1997 | poetry | India | Letten / Platzspitz |
| Rawnsley, H. D. | "The Statue of Zwinglius: Zurich" | 1899 | poetry | UK (England) | Statue of Zwingli |
| Reiss, James | "Lake Night Festival" | 1988 | poetry | USA | Quaibrücke |
| Rowbotham, David | "Zurich" | 1971 | poetry | Australia | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Sanders, Edward | "Dada Comes to Zürich" | 2000 | poetry | USA | Cabaret Voltaire / Spiegelgasse 14 |
| Sanders, Edward | "The Birth of Perf-Po" | 2000 | poetry | USA | Cabaret Voltaire / Spiegelgasse 14 |
| Shanahan, Charif | "Lake Zürich" | 2017 | poetry | USA | Lake Zurich |
| Sims, Janice | Seduced by Moonlight | 2008 | novel | USA | Peterskirche |
| Sobin, Anthony | "Zurich: February 5, 1916" | 1982 | poetry | USA | Cabaret Voltaire / Spiegelgasse 14 |
| Stoppard, Tom | Travesties | 1974 | novel | UK (England) / Czech Republic | Zentralbibliothek |
| Sze, Arthur | "Every Where and Every When" | 1987 | poetry | USA | Café Odeon |
| Taylor, Sheila Ortiz | "Equal Access" | 1989 | poetry | USA | Zurich (unspecified) |
| Thompson, William Irwin | "At the Grave of James Joyce in Zürich" | 1996 or eaerlier | poetry | USA | Fluntern Cemetery |
| Thompson, William Irwin | "Limatquai, Zürich" | 1996 or eaerlier | poetry | USA | Limmatquai / Zwingli Statue |
| Thompson, William Irwin | "Paradeplatz Passacaglias" | 1996 or eaerlier | poetry | USA | Paradeplatz |
| Thompson, William Irwin | "Witikonerstrasse, Zürich" | 1996 or eaerlier | poetry | USA | Witikonerstrasse |
| Walcott, Derek | "Volcano" | 1976 | poetry | Saint Lucia | Fluntern Cemetery / Zoo Zürich |
| Wolpé, Sholeh | "Two Women at the Zurich Railway Station" | 2004 | poetry | Iran | Zurich Main Station (HB) |