Tuesday, January 14, 2020

WRITING COLLABORATIONS with GARY BARWIN


Tuesday FEB 11
7.30p.m., Newcomer Learning Centre, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library
Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of twenty-four books of poetry, fiction and books for children. His work includes many collaborations works with writers as well as with other artforms. His latest books include A Cemetery for Holes, a poetry collaboration with Tom Prime (Gordon Hill, Fall 2019) and For It is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe: New and Selected Poems, ed. Alessandro Porco (Wolsak and Wynn, Fall 2019.) His national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates (Random House Canada) won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Fiction) and the Hamilton Book Award (Fiction). It was also a finalist for both the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. A new novel, Don’t Fence Me In will appear from Random House in 2021. Barwin has been Writer-in-Residence at several universities and public libraries and is currently writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto (Scarborough Campus) as well as faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario and at garybarwin.com