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 this author in our catalogue:

Big Red Baby

by Gary Barwin

5.75 x 8.5 in, 92pp, paperback

ISBN-10: 1-55128-064-7

ISBN-13: 978-1-55128-064-6

September 1999

$14.50

Doctor Weep and other strange teeth

by Gary Barwin

5.75 x 8.5 in, 144pp, paperback

ISBN-10: 1-55128-106-6

ISBN-13: 978-1-55128-106-3

October 2004

$16.95

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frogments from the frag pool

by Gary Barwin and derek beaulieu

5.75 x 5.75 in, 128pp, paperback

ISBN-10: 1-55128-112-0

ISBN-13: 978-1-55128-112-4

November 2005

$17.95

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Mud Game

by Stuart Ross and Gary Barwin

5.75 x 8.5 in, 72pp, paperback

ISBN-10: 1-55128-027-2

ISBN-13: 978-1-55128-027-1

September 1996

$12.50

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Surreal Estate

edited by Stuart Ross, contributions by Gary Barwin and Mark Laba

6 x 9 in, 192pp, paperback

ISBN-10: 1-55128-109-0

ISBN-13: 978-1-55128-109-4

October 2004

$17.95

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