Gary Barwin
Gary Barwin (born 1964 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Canadian poet, writer, composer, multimedia artist, performer and educator who lives in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada). He writes in a range of genres including poetry, fiction, visual poetry, music for live performers and computers, text and sound works, and writing for children and young adults. His music and writing have been presented in Canada, the US, Japan, and Europe.
Barwin was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and emigrated to Ottawa, Ontario in the early 1970s. He graduated from York University with a BFA in Music and a BA in Creative Writing in 1985 where he studied writing with bpNichol, Frank Davey and music with David Mott, James Tenney, and Trichy Sankaran. Barwin received a PhD in Music Composition from SUNY at Buffalo in 1995. Barwin taught music at Hillfield Strathallan College from 2001–2010. He also has taught creative writing at King's University College (Western University), in the Certificate in Writing Program at McMaster University, and at Mohawk College, and at the Art Forms (Urban Arts Initiative) for street-involved youth. In addition to his many books, he is the author of numerous chapbooks, and pamphlets, many from his own serif of nottingham editions. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies. He was the Fall 2013 eWriter in Residence at the Toronto Public Library and is the 2014-2015 Writer-in-Residence at Western University and the London Public Library.
He lives in Hamilton, Ontario with his wife and three children where he directs the Niagara Regional Rhyme Gland Laboratory for the National Rhyme Institute.
Awards
Barwin was the winner of the 2013 City of Hamilton Arts Award (Writing), the Hamilton Poetry Book of the Year for 2001 and 2011, and co-winner of 2011 Harbourfront Poetry NOW competition. He has received major grants from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. He was the recipient of the 1998 Artist Award from the KM Hunter Foundation. Seeing Stars, a YA novel, was a 2001 finalist for the CLA YA book of the year, and was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award. In 2010, Barwin was a co-winner (with Sandra Ridley) of the bpNichol Chapbook Award for his book Inverting the Deer (serif of nottingham, 2009). In 2016, Barwin's novel Yiddish for Pirates was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction,[1]
Books
- 1995:Cruelty to Fabulous Animals, poetry/fiction. Moonstone Press
- 1995:The Mud Game, novel, collaboration with Stuart Ross. Mercury Press
- 1998:Big Red Baby, short fiction. The Mercury Press
- 1998:Outside the Hat, poetry. Coach House Books
- 2001:Raising Eyebrows, poetry. Coach House Books
- 2004:Doctor Weep and Other Strange Teeth, fiction. The Mercury Press
- 2005:Frogments from the Frag Pool, poetry, collaboration with Derek Beaulieu). Mercury Press
- 2010:The Porcupinity of the Stars, poetry. Coach House Books.
- 2011:The Obvious Flap, poetry, collaboration with Gregory Betts, BookThug
- 2011:Franzlations: the Imaginary Kafka Parables, (poetry, collaboration with Craig Conley and Hugh Thomas). New Star.
- 2014:Moon Baboon Canoe, poetry. Mansfield Press.
- 2015:The Wild and Unfathomable Always, visual poetry. Xexoxial Editions*
- 2015:I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457, fiction. Anvil Press
- 2015:Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton,, poetry. Edited and introduced by Barwin. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
- 2016:Yiddish for Pirates, novel. Random House Canada
For Children
- 1998:The Racing Worm Brothers, children's fiction. Annick Press
- 1999:The Magic Mustache, children's fiction. Annick Press
- 2000:Grandpa's Snowman, children's fiction. Annick Press
- 2001:Seeing Stars, young adult novel. Stoddart Press
- 2002:La Moustache Magique, French translation of The Magic Mustache, fiction.Les 400 Coups
Recordings
- These Are The Clams I'm Breathing, (audiocassette), sound poetry, collaboration with Stuart Ross
- 1992:Recurring Irritations: Document One (Taproot 33) Burning Press
- 1994:Martin's Idea, spoken word / music, work for reciter, Musicworks CD #60
References
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- Living people
- 20th-century Canadian poets
- Canadian male poets
- Canadian male novelists
- University at Buffalo alumni
- 1964 births
- Writers from Hamilton, Ontario
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- York University alumni
- McMaster University faculty
- Jewish Canadian writers