Gary Barwin

The author of more than twenty books of poetry, fiction and books for children, Gary Barwin is a writer, musician and multimedia artist from Hamilton, Ontario and the author of the nationally bestselling novel, Yiddish for Pirates (Penguin Random House Canada) which won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, the Canadian Jewish Literary Award was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award; and For It is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe: New and Selected Poems, ed. Alessandro Porco (Wolsak and Wynn, 2019.)
A finalist for the National Magazine Awards (Poetry), he is a three-time recipient of Hamilton Poetry Book of the Year, has also received the Hamilton Arts Award for Literature and has co-won the bpNichol Chapbook Award and the K.M. Hunter Arts Award. He was one of the judges for the 2017 CBC Poetry Prize. Barwin has been Writer-in-Residence at Western University, Hillfield Strathallan College and McMaster University and the Hamilton Public Library. His writing and recordings have been published/released in hundreds of magazines and journals internationally—from Readers Digest to Granta. He is on the organizing committee for Hamilton’s LitLive Series and regularly presents, performs and exhibits in the city.

Books by Gary Barwin

Scandal at the Alphorn Factory

Imagining Imagining

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

A Cemetery for Holes

No TV for Woodpeckers

I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457

Yiddish for Pirates

Sonosyntactics

I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457

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