Gary Barwin

Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and performer. He is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry and fiction including the poetry collections frogments from the frag pool: haiku after basho (written with derek beaulieu) and Raising Eyebrows and Outside the Hat (Coach House Books) and the fiction collections Doctor Weep and other strange teeth, Big Red Baby (The Mercury Press), and Cruelty to Fabulous Animals (Moonstone Press). He is the author of The Mud Game, a novel written with Stuart Ross (The Mercury Press). Barwin is also the author of several books for children including Seeing Stars, a young adult novel (Stoddart Kids) nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award and the CLA YA Book of the Year, and Killer Poodle Made Me Island King (Fox Meadow), co-winner of the Muskoka Novel Marathon 2003. Barwin received a PhD in Music Composition and currently teaches music at Hillfield-Strathallan College and creative writing at McMaster University. Barwin lives in Hamilton, where he has cultivated vague but colourful illusions about his writing. Please don’t tell him.

Books by Gary Barwin

duck eats yeast, quacks, explodes; man loses eye

The Most Charming Creatures

Bird Arsonist

Laurier Poetry Pack #5

Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted

Laurier Poetry Pack #4

For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe

No TV for Woodpeckers

I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457

Yiddish for Pirates

Sonosyntactics

Moon Baboon Canoe

Franzlations

The Obvious Flap

The Porcupinity of the Stars

frogments from the frag pool

Doctor Weep and other strange teeth

Raising Eyebrows

Seeing Stars

Big Red Baby

Outside the Hat

Mud Game