BIO
Gary Barwin is a poet, fiction writer, composer,
visual artist, and
performer. His music and writing have been published, performed and
broadcast in Canada, the US, and elsewhere.
His publications include poetry:
Franzlations [the imaginary Kafka parables] (with Craig Conley & Hugh
Thomas; New Star), The Obvious Flap (with Gregory Betts; BookThug), The Porcupinity of
the Stars, Outside the Hat and Raising Eyebrows (Coach House),
Servants of Dust (No Press), and frogments from the frag pool
(with derek beaulieu; The Mercury Press); and fiction: Doctor Weep and
other Strange Teeth, Big Red Baby, and The Mud Game (a novel with
Stuart Ross) (The Mercury Press). O: eleven songs for chorus (poems
and visuals by Gary Barwin, music by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz was published by
Westleaf Edition in 2011.
He was the co-winner of the 2010 bpNichol chapbook award for Inverting
the Deer (serif of nottingham) and was a recipient of the KM Hunter
Foundation Artist award. Barwin has performed in numerous festivals
and readings series across Canada and internationally, including the
International Festival of Authors (Toronto), The Ottawa International
Writers Festival (Ottawa), the International Poetry Festival (Reykjavik) and
the Canadian Embassy (Tokyo).
His music has been performed by Arraymusic, The
Vancouver Chamber Choir, The Bach-Elgar Choir, The Burdocks, Uh-Maybe,
Ensemble Symposium, The Windtunnel Saxophone Quartet, and The Fires of
Tonawanda. His music & text piece, Martin’s Idea was chosen as a “Desert
Island Pick” by Kalvos & Damian’s New Music Bazaar (WDGR Radio; http://kalvos.org). He
has written on musical subjects ranging from Louis Andriessen to the
harmonic theories of James Tenney as a metaphor for the physics of
multi-dimensional space.
Barwin is also the author of several books for kids,
including Seeing Stars which was nominated for a CLA YA Book of the
Year and an Arthur Ellis Award, and The Magic Mustache (Annick) which
was listed as one of Macleans’ top ten reads of the season in Winter of
1999.
Barwin received a PhD in Music Composition from SUNY at Buffalo.
He also holds three degrees from York University: a B.F.A. (Spec. Hons.) in
music, a B.A. in English, and a B.Ed. (with qualifications in
Intermediate/Senior).
He
lives in Hamilton, Ontario with his wife, and family and online at garybarwin.com. If you were the last word of this bio, you’d be home.
LITERARY
PUBLICATIONS
1. Books
Franzlations: the Imaginary Kafka Parables,
collaboration with Hugh Thomas and Craig Conley. New Star, forthcoming Fall
2011. Poetry, 90 pp.
O: eleven songs for chorus SATB,
collaboration, Barwin: poems and visuals, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, music.
Vermont: Westleaf Edition, August 2011. Music, poetry, visuals, 67 pp.
The Obvious Flap, poetry,
collaboration with Gregory Betts. BookThug, Spring, 2011. Poetry, 85 pp.
The Porcupinity of the Stars,
poetry. Coach House Press, 2010. Poetry, 96
pp.
frogments
from the frag pool, poetry,
collaboration with derek beaulieu. The Mercury Press, 2005. Poetry, 112 pp.
Doctor Weep and Other Strange Teeth,
fiction. The Mercury Press, 2004.
Fiction, 88 pp.
Raising Eyebrows,
poetry. Coach House Books, 2001. Poetry, 112 pp.
Big Red Baby,
short fiction. The Mercury Press, 1998. Fiction, 92 pp.
Outside the Hat, poetry. Coach House Books, 1998. Poetry, 114 pp.
Cruelty to Fabulous Animals,
Moonstone Press 1995. Fiction, 95 pp.
The Mud Game,
novel, collaboration with Stuart Ross. Mercury Press 1995. 72 pp.
for children:
Killer
Poodle Made Me Island King, (Muskoka
Novel Marathon 2003 Co-Winner Special Publication), Fox Meadow, 2004.
Fiction, 74 pp.
La
Moustache Magique, French
translation of The Magic Mustache, children’s fiction. Les 400 Coups,
2002. Fiction, 32 pp.
Seeing Stars,
young adult novel. Stoddart Press, 2001. Fiction, 183 pp.
Grandpa’s Snowman,
children’s fiction. Annick Press, 2000. Fiction, 32 pp.
The Magic Mustache, children’s fiction. Annick Press, 1999. Fiction, 32 pp.
The Racing Worm Brothers,
children’s fiction. Annick Press, 1998. Fiction, 32 pp.
2. Recordings
Gary Barwin
PennSound Page (Center for Programs in Comtemporary Writing) http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Barwin.php
“Improvised
Collaboration based on score by Claude Gauvreau,” The Archnoids, CD,
Pleonasm Music.org, September 2010.
“The
Marlinspike Chantey,” electro-acoustic music and text, Influency Salon #2,
Influencysalon.ca, May 2010.
“The Squirrel of Love,” & “from The
Obvious Flap,” (electro-acoustic sound poetry) As Long As It Takes,
Issue #2
http://www.aslongasittakes.org/issue%202.html#barwin,
2008.
“Skalla-Grimr,”
(electro-acoustic sound poetry) Tregawott,
http://www.norddahl.org/tregawott/leikur/utlaisl.html
2008.
“Tart.
Sweet. Crunchy. Crisp.” music & text. Taddle Creek Talking Magazine (http://www.taddlecreekmag.com/talk),
Vol. XI, No. 2, 2008.
“Click,”
music & text. AuthorsAloud. (http://www.authorsaloud.com/readings/readings/fiction/barwin.html),
2007
“No Batteries
Needed,” (prose poem for liner notes), arraymusic, “Live,” Artifact music,
2005.
These Are
The Clams I’m Breathing,
(audiocassette), sound poetry, collaboration with Stuart Ross. Recurring
Irritations: Document One (Taproot 33) Burning Press, 1992.
Martin’s Idea, spoken word / music, work for reciter, Musicworks CD #60, 1994.
3. Anthologies
“Texting
with a Star,” “Punctuation: A Love Story,” “Ten word Poem,” Remix: A
Revolution in Text Form,
McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Summer 2011. 8 pp.
“Ode”,
“Questionable Shadows,” “Punctuation Funnies,” “Magritte Forest,” Last
Vispo, C. Hill, N. Vassilakis.eds., forthcoming. Poetry, 4 pp.
“House,”
Rogue Stimulus. S. Ross and S. Brockwell, eds. Toronto: Mansfield Press,
2010. Fiction, 1 pp.
“Three
poems,” home, poem, J. Hill and D. Waber, eds., Kingston, PA: Paper
Kite, 2010. Poems, 4 pp.
Shape Shift,
Andrew Topel, ed., Avantacular Press, 2010.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29094643/Shape-Shift.
Poetry, 1pp.
“Punctuation
Funnies 1-4,” Poemics, ed. P. Szreniawki, Lublin, Poland: Poemics,
2010. Poetry, 2 pp.
“Jurassic Pork,” Dinosaur Porn, S.
Gordon, A. Faulkner, and L. Nash, eds. Toronto: Ferno House/Emergency
Response Unit, 2010. Poetry, 3 pp.
ditch,
anthology 1 (canadian innovative poets),
J. Goodman, ed., ditchpoetry.com, 2010.
Poetry, 8 pp.
“Streambed,” From Sinai to the Shtetl and
Beyond, E. Jaffe and L. Blume, eds. Hamilton: Pinking Shears, 2009.
Fiction, 1 p.
Five visual
poems and an essay, Boredom Fighters, P. Poletto and J. Kennedy,
Toronto: Tightrope Books, 2008. Poetry, 8 pp.
“Harpsichord,” Visual Poetry in the Avant Writing Collection, John M.
Bennett, ed., Columbus: Ohio State University Libraries, 2008. Poetry, 1 p.
Four
visual poems, other clutter: an and-thology,
Jenny Sampirisi, ed., Toronto:
other cl/utter, 2007. Poetry, 4 pp.
“The Closets
of Time,” The Closets of Time: a new fiction anthology, R. Truhlar
and B. Daurio, Toronto: The Mercury Press, 2007. Fiction, 2 pp.
“A Visit to
Grandma’s,” Animal Tales: Favourite Stories from Chirp Magazine, Mary
Beth Leatherdale, ed. Toronto: Owl Books, 2007. Fiction, 1 pp.
“The Only
Soup,” All Sleek & Skimming: Stories of Adolescence,
Lisa Heggum, ed. Vancouver: Orca Books,
2006. Fiction, 2 pp.
Five poems,
Twenty-five Years of Tree,
James Moran & Jennifer Mulligan, eds. Ottawa: BuschekBooks, 2005. Poetry, 5
pp.
Six poems,
Surreal Estate: Writers Under the Influence,
Stuart Ross, ed. Toronto: The Mercury Press, 2004. Poetry, 6 pp.
“Skin,”
My Lump in the Bed: Love Poems
for George W. Bush, Stuart Ross, ed. Toronto: Proper Tales Press, 2004.
Poetry, 1 p.
Visual poem.
White Wall of Sound #33 (Contemporary
Canadian Concrete & Visual poetry), ed. derek beaulieu, 2003. Poetry, 1 p.
Untitled, Very Short
Stories, Josh Thorpe, ed. Toronto: Off Cut Press, 2003. Poetry, 1 p.
Untitled, Time to
Kill Boss, Stuart Ross, ed. Toronto: Proper Tales Press, 2002.
Poetry, 1 p.
“Pound
Cape,” Mentor's Canon, Kemeny
Babineau, ed. St John: Broken Jaw Press, 2001. Fiction, 2 pp.
“Placenta,”
Sex: An Anthology, Beverly
Daurio, ed. Toronto: The Mercury Press, 2000.Fiction, 3 pp.
Untitled,
Primitive, Bubble, And, Stuart
Ross, ed. Toronto: Proper Tales Press, 2000. Poetry, 1 p.
Untitled,
Jewel in the Lotus of the Instant Anthology,
Toronto: Toronto Small Press Bookfair 2000. Poetry, 1 p.
Two visual
poems, Courier: An Anthology of Concrete Poetry,
Calgary: House Press, 2000. Poetry, 3 pp.
“Poem,”
Son of the Instant Anthology, Toronto:
Toronto Small Press Bookfair 1999. Poetry, 1
p.
“Toward
Windward,” Hard Times: A
New Fiction Anthology, Beverly Daurio, ed. Toronto: Aya/Mercury Press
1990. Fiction, 2 pp.
Six poems,
Ten Tandem, Nicolas Power and
Chris Warren, eds., Toronto: Gesture Press 1987. Poetry, 6 pp.
“Poem,”
The Instant Anthology,
Christopher Dewdney et al, Toronto: Toronto Small Press Bookfair 1987.
Poetry, 1 p.
4. Small Press Editions
The Saxophonists’ Book of the Dead,
serif of nottingham, June 2011. Fiction. 8 pp.
Four Panels, No
Press, February 2011. Poetry. n.p.
Six Panels,
No Press, January 2011. Poetry. n.p.
The Punctuation of Thieves,
The Olive Reading Series (Edmonton), 2010.
Fiction, 20 pp.
Servants of Dusk: Shakespeare Sonnets 1-20,
No Press, May 2010. Poetry, 22
pp.
The Punctuation of Thieves,
serif of nottingham editions, 2010.
Fiction, 20 pp.
“This is
Visual Poetry by Gary Barwin,” chapbookpublisher.com,
March 2010. Poetry, 12 pp.
anus porcupine eyebrow,
Supernova Tadpole/Paper Kite, 2009.
Poetry, 32 pp.
Inverting the Deer,
serif of nottingham editions, 2009. Poetry,
44 pp.
Punctuation Funnies,
serif of nottingham editions, 2009. Poetry, 12pp.
Chora Sea
with Gregory Betts, Emergency Response
Unit, 2009. Poetry, 22 pp.
Merkabah
with Adam Seelig, one cent edition 381,
#302, February 2007. Poetry, 1 p.
Psalm
(broadside), above/ground press, 2005. Poetry, p.1.
a periodic table of the alphabet(A),
serif of nottingham editions, 2003.
Poetry, 14 pp.
33 1/3, with r. mclennan, et al.,
above/ground press, 2003. Poetry, 16 pp.
The 10th Sigmund Freud,
serif of nottingham editions, 2003.
Fiction, 8 pp.
Studies in Microscansion,
housepress editions, 2001. Poetry, 4 pp.
The Great Themes, serif of nottingham editions, 2000. Poetry, 24 pp.
“Basho translation” from frogments from
the frag pond, housepress, 1998. Poetry, 4 pp.
Like Bozo’s Nose or Time Itself,
serif of nottingham editions, 1997. Fiction, 4pp.
Big Red Baby,
poetry/fiction. serif of nottingham editions 1997.Fiction, 4 pp.
Mike
Harris Made Me Eat My Dog & Other Strange Fish.
serif of nottingham editions 1996. Poetry/fiction, 20 pp.
Blancmange,
serif of nottingham editions 1996. Poetry, 4
pp.
Two haiku, Flying Camel Editions 1996.
Poetry, 4 pp.
Two Basho Translations. Flying Camel
Editions 1996. Poetry, 4 pp.
The Lovely
Carlotta, Queen of Mexico. serif
of nottingham editions 1996. Fiction, 4 pp.
A Flapping Red Flag. serif of nottingham editions 1995. Poetry, 20 pp.
Scar,
poetry. serif of nottingham editions 1994. Poetry, 12 pp.
Family
Relations Are So Complicated.
serif of nottingham editions 1993. Poetry, 12 pp.
The
Iridescent Phlegm of Bagpipers Glorious with Flu,
serif of nottingham editions 1992. Poetry, 16 pp.
“one night i was playing with my tongue.../
I have something to tell you” (with
Stuart Ross). serif of nottingham editions/Proper Tales Press 1991. Fiction,
4 pp.
Surplus Ballyhoo, collaboration with Stuart Ross. serif of Nottingham editions/Proper
Tales Press 1991. Poetry, 4 pp.
Mollusks of Jealousy,
serif of nottingham editions 1991. Poetry, 26 pp.
Martin’s Idea, serif of nottingham editions 1991. Fiction, 12 pp.
The Stars
Are A Pale Pox On The Sky’s Dark Chicken,
poetry/fiction. serif of nottingham editions 1991. Poetry/fiction
Studies In Micro-Scansion,
The National Rhyme Institute 1990, Poetry, 1 p.
Balletto,
serif of nottingham editions 1990. Poetry, 1 p.
Oracle of Dog, serif of nottingham editions 1990. Fiction, 8 pp.
Toward Windward, collaboration
with jwcurry. serif of nottingham editions 1989. Fiction, 8 pp.
Towards Windword, collaboration with jwcurry. curved H&z 1989. Poetry, 8 pp.
what was said in translations,
curved H&z 1989. Poetry, 4 pp.
frogments from the fragpool,
Proper Tales Press 1989. Poetry, 8 pp.
I Parked
My Car Behind Loblaws And Knew I Would Never Die,
Pink Dog Press 1989. Fiction, 16 pp.
St Catharines, Ontario,
poetry. serif of nottingham editions 1989. Fiction, 4 pp.
Rover,
serif of nottingham editions/one cent 223 1989. Fiction, 8 pp.
a short history of breath,
serif of nottingham editions 1989. Poetry, 16 pp.
abulatif,
serif of nottingham editions 1988. Fiction, 4 pp.
Shepherds in the Parking Lot,
serif of nottingham editions 1988. Fiction, 8 pp.
The Sun Disappears, serif of nottingham editions 1988, Poetry (postcard).
The Birthday,
Gesture Press 1988. Fiction, 16 pp.
Ukiah poems 4, Underwhich Editions 1988. Poetry, 4 pp.
sewing,
Gesture Press 1988. Poetry (postcard).
A Sound like Fire, serif of nottingham editions 1988. Fiction, 8 pp.
King Arthur was A Mountie,
poetry. serif of nottingham editions 1987. Poetry, 12 pp.
A Million Dollars, serif of nottingham editions 1987. Fiction, 4 pp.
Nails,
fiction. serif of nottingham editions 1986. Fiction, 4 pp.
Blameless Angels, serif of nottingham editions 1986. Fiction, 4 pp.
How I watched until the moon,
serif of nottingham editions 1986. Poetry, 12 pp.
Phases of
the Harpsichord Moon, serif of
nottingham editions 1985. Poetry, (broadside).
Phases of the Harpsichord Moon,
serif of nottingham editions 1985. Poetry,
32 pp.
edwin,
serif of nottingham editions 1985. Fiction, 16 pp.
5. Exhibitions
“Brick,” (poem poster) Upstart Arts
Project, Dublin, Ireland. February 2011.
“Magritte
Forest,” Sound and Vision: Visual Poetry Exhibition, Edmonton Poetry
Festival, Edmonton, Alberta, April 25-May 1, 2011.
“Ode,” Selections from The Last
Vispo Anthology, Ráday Könyvesház Cultural Centre,
Budapest, April 23, 2010.
“Five
visual poems,” Selections from The Last Vispo Anthology, Meet the
Presses Indie Literary Market, Toronto, June 5, 2010.
6. Journal and Magazine Publications -
Poetry and Fiction
“The Saxophonists Book of the Dead," Taddle
Creek (forthcoming, December, 2011) Fiction 2pp.
"Origami
for Terrorists,” Rampike (forthcoming, 2011) Poetry 1p.
“Bright Morning,” Branch Magazine #7,
branchmagazine.com, Fall 2011.
“The New Squeeze,” Prose-poetry, The
Incongruous Quarterly, Issue #3, 2011, 1p.
“Hair
Today,” “Woodland Road with Travellers,” and “In Between,” Grain, Summer
2011. Poetry, 8pp.
“Three Emails Sonnet,” Vallum 8:1, Winter,
2010. Poetry, 1 p.
“Three Visual Poems,” Dandelion Magazine,
Issue 36, No. 2, Winter 2011. 2pp.
“Five
Visual Poems,” Tip of the Knife #3,
http://tipoftheknife.blogspot.com/2011/01/tip-of-knife-issue-3.html,
January 2011.
“Four visual
poems from The Obvious Flap,” (with Gregory Betts), The New Post
Literate: A Gallery of Asemic Writing, January 2011. http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2011/01/obvious-flap-from-gary-barwin-and.html
“Psalm 23,”
“Psalm 91,” “House,” The Puritan, Issue 11, Summer/Fall 2010.
“Song,”
“The Wikipedia Bible,” and “House,” Wonk #6 (Wetaskiwin, AB),
September, 2010.
“The Long
Way Home,” “The Icemakers of the Anteater,” “Rat”, “Parables of
Convenience,”“The Empyrean,” This Magazine, Sept/Oct 2010. Fiction, 2 pp.
Three Visual
Poems, filling Station #45, 2010. Poetry, 2 pp.
“Oil
Ode,” Poets for Living Waters, poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com, July, 2010
“Poetry Be
Like,” (with Gregory Betts), Rampike, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2010. Poetry, 2 pp.
“The
Marlinspike Chantey” and “Visual Poem,” Influency Salon #2,
Influencysalon.ca, May 2010. Poetry, [online].
“Music for
Viol da Gamba,” “Toaster,” “Ampersand Axed,” “H Crutch,” Radioactive Moat,
#1, Radioactivemoat.com, 2010. Fiction/Poetry, 5 pp.
“Evening
Meal,” “Bicycle,” “Streambed,” Joyland.ca (Toronto), October 2009. Fiction,
[online].
“Ampersand
Mandala,” “Murmur,” “Magritte Forest 2,” “Magritte Forest 2b,” “Sheep
Revolver,” Würm, Issue 2,
http://thewurmhasturned.blogspot.com/,
August 2009. Poetry, 5 pp.
“Poems
from frogments from the frag pool,” DailyHaiku Volume III
(2009) Edmonton: Daily Haiku Journal. Poetry, 2 pp.
Seven Visual Poems,
Drunken Boat 10, Spring 2009. Poetry, 7 pp.
“Moon Bone,” “Happy
Said,” Experiment-O, Issue 1,
http://www.experiment-o.com/
November 2008. Poetry, 2 pp.
“from ‘The Obvious
Flap,’” (with Greg Betts), Room to Move, 2008. Poetry, 12 pp.
“Two Visual Poems,” Rampike 16/2, 2008.
Poetry, 1 p.
“The Orthoscendant Yodel of the Megascule,”
Rampike 16/1, 2007/2008. Fiction, 2 pp.
“Tart. Sweet. Crunchy. Crisp.” Taddle
Creek, Vol XI, No.2, Summer 2008. Fiction, 2 pp.
Three Haiku,
“Flood,” “Song,” “Outlaw Revolution,” “Relieving,” “Gandhi in My Ear,”
Ottawater #4, January 2008. Poetry, 6 pp.
“The
Porcupinity of the Stars,” Taddle Creek, Vol XI, No.1, Christmas,
2007. Poetry, 1 p.
“Chora II,” with Gregory Betts, Coconut 9, (http://www.coconutpoetry.org/barwinbetts1.htm),
2007. Poetry [online].
“Dawn of a Dead Wood Dawn,” with Gregory
Betts, Shampoo 29, March 2007. Poetry [online].
“Inside H,”
“Why Did the Chicken?” Holy Beep! (filling station Publications Soc.) 2007.
Poetry, 2 pp.
“The Smooth Fingers of the Phrenologist’s
Baby,” “Why I Write,” “Antelope,” Vallum 4:2/5:1, 2007. Fiction/poetry, 4
pp.
“Two
poems,” Peter O’Toole #3, November 2007. Poetry, 2 pp.
“Living
Room,” “Snug,” “since my house burned down,” PRECIPICe, Vol. 15, #1, 2007.
Poetry, 3 pp.
“Inside H,” dig #12, May 2007. Poetry, 1 p.
“Four poems,” Peter O’Toole, May 2007.
Poetry, 2 pp.
“Fish of Rage,” This Magazine, Vol. 40,
Number 5, April 2007. Fiction, 1 p.
“Holiday,” Twaddle Magazine #2, February,
2007. Fiction, 1 p.
“Furnace Coat,” Taddle Creek, Vol X, No.1,
2006. Poetry, 1 p.
“The
Original Middle of Nowhere,” “Fish of Rage,” “Antelope,” “The Smooth Fingers
of the Phrenologist’s Baby,” Draft 2.1, October 2006. Fiction/poetry, 4 pp.
“Etherball,” Spire, Vol. 3, No.7, May 2006.
Poetry, 1 p.
“Cob Bobbing II,” “Aubade,” Peter F. Yacht
Club, April 2006. Poetry, 2 pp.
“Old Snake Man Makes Toast,” Twaddle No.1,
2006. Poetry, 1 p.
“History
Notebook,” dig #11, 2006. Poetry, 1 p.
“Proverbs
1:20,” filling Station #35, March 2006. Poetry 1 p.
“A
Song for the Yak,” The Walrus, July/August 2006. Poetry, 1 p.
“Fencing,”
and “thumbwars between birds,” fhole #6, October 2005. Fiction/poetry, 1 p.
“Frost,”
and “My Life as a Poet,” Hammered Out #7, October 2005. Poetry, 2 pp.
“Bullet,” “No
Story Neither,” and “The Lollygagging Prongs of the Six-Bar Blues,” Crash
#10, 2005. Fiction, 2 pp.
“Testing Pattern,” Taddle Creek, Vol IX,
No.1, 2005. Poetry, 1 p.
“Pup-Tent of the Rent Heart,” and “Star
Dust,” Rampike 14/1, 2005. Fiction, 1 p.
“Albert’s Paradise,” Taddle Creek, Vol VIII,
No.2, Summer 2005. Fiction, 1 p.
“Runner,” Taddle Creek, Vol. VII, No.2,
Summer 2004. Fiction, 2 pp.
“Click,” Descant, No. 122, Vol. 34, No. 3,
Fall 2003. Fiction, 2 pp.
“Uvula Shadows,” Taddle Creek, Vol. VI, No.
2, Summer 2003. Fiction, 2 pp.
“Summer Morning, Taddle Creek, Vol V, No.
1, Winter 2002. Fiction, 2 pp.
“Freezer,” Dandelion, Vol. 28, No.1, 2002.
Fiction 1 p.
“A Perilous
Human Face,” “Greaseland,” and “The Sky is No Reason,” dig #9, Fall 2002.
Poetry, 4 pp.
“Synonyms for Fish,” Stanzas Magazine, Vol.
1, Number 26, March 2001. Poetry, 8 pp.
“Slice,” Taddle Creek, Vol. IV, No. 2,
Christmas, 2001. Fiction, 1 p.
“Death of
Surrealism,” “Stay Here Warped Hypothesis,” “Parallel Parking in a Curved
World,” filling station, Issue 21, Summer 2001. Poetry, 3 pp.
“The Piano’s Broken Spine,” Musicworks #81
and 82 (2001) Poetry, 2 pp.
“Memory,” Quarry, Summer 2001. Poetry, 2 pp.
“Some of the
Parts,” and “Tomorrow Comes Over,” Writing Space Journal, Summer 2001.
Poetry, 2 pp.
“Why do we worry,” Raw Nervz, Spring 2001.
Poetry, 1 p.
“My Tiny Ellascope,” and “Owl
Riding,”Descant, Winter 2001. Fiction/poetry, 3 pp.
“the moon is following me…,” Back to Black,
curved h&z, March 2001. Poetry, 1 p.
“The Death of Surrealism,” filling station,
Issue 20, December 2000.
“from the
Smith Coronamancy,” and “Knives and Forks of the Millennium,” The Writing
Space Journal, Winter 2000. Poetry, 3 pp.
“The Great Themes,” “Without Wheels,” “Three
Astral Condiments,” “In the Shadow of Xylophones,” and “The Black Smile.”
Exquisite Corpse (Cyber Corpse #5/6) Summer
2000. Poetry [online].
“Beat Red: Gluegun,” Write Magazine, Summer
2000. Poetry, 2 pp.
“Frotella,” Perpetual Motion Machine #3,
Spring 2000. Fiction, 1 p.
“The Long Arm,” The Writing Space Journal,
Fall 1999. Fiction, 2 pp.
“The Birth of
Writing,” and “Knock Knock,” Queen St. Quarterly, September 1999. Fiction 4
pp.
“Shaving the Sacred,” and “Brainbox,” Kairos
#11, September 1999. Poetry, 4 pp.
“Running Dry,” and “Beyond Closing,” Filling
Station, September 1999. Poetry, 2 pp.
“Defrosting Disney,” Canadian Forum, August
1999. Fiction, 2 pp.
“Chicken Suit for the Soul,” Rampike, Vol.
10, #2, 1999. Fiction, 2 pp.
“Raising Eyebrows,” Rampike Vol. 10, #1
1998. Poetry, 1 p.
“Outside the Hat,” and “Jain Jing Loks,”
Rampike Vol.9, #2, 1998. Poetry, 2 pp.
“Hard
Maple,” subTERRAIN, #23, Winter 1998. Poetry, 1 p.
“Mandala,”
“Good Neighbours Make Good Fences,” “All Hat & No Cowboy,” “Some Other
Fish,” and “My Son Looks in the Toilet at What He Has Made,” Rampike Vol. 9,
#1, 1997. Poetry, 2 pp.
“an astronaut,” Spudburn #7, 1997. Poetry, 1
p.
“Haiku Night in Canada,” Geist, June 1997.
Poetry, 1 p.
“Book Pain Sublux,” Mondo Hunkamooga, May
1997. Fiction, 1p.
“Mouth,” and “Pink Balloon,” Rampike Vol. 8,
#2, 1997. Poetry, 2 pp.
“Street Sign,” Algoma Ink, 1996. Poetry, 2
pp.
“Lester
Nylon’s Second Honk,” Lit, December-January 1996. Poetry, 2 pp.
“Five stories, 4 Questions and 23 Facts,”
Geist magazine, August 1996. Fiction, 2 pp.
“The End of a Cue,” Lit, April-May 1996.
Fiction, 1 p.
“Oracle of Dog,” Rampike, Vol. 8, No.
1, 1995-96. Fiction, 1 p.
“Vroom”; “The Sunset Rides a Greasy Horse,”
CB No.3, May 1995. Poetry, 4 pp.
“Outside the Hat,“ Wag #6, May 1995.
Fiction, 6 pp.
“Glyph”; “The Red Dogs of Dawn,” Rampike
Literary Supplement #2, Border/Lines #31, 1993/4. Fiction, 2 pp.
“The Lice of Monarchy,” What #33, October
1993. Fiction, 2 pp.
“Cop of Cuffee,” Geist, Vol. 2, No.3,
April/May 1992. Fiction, 2 pp.
“What I Wear,” What #26, 1991. Fiction, 1 p.
“Aleph My Heart,” Industrial Sabotage #52,
1991. Poetry, 1 p.
“Hand/cent rebus,” Spudburn #6, 1991.
Poetry, 1 p.
“Shoe”; “Angels,” Mental Radio #3, 1990.
Fiction, 4 pp.
“Charlie”; Paragraph, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1990.
Fiction, 2 pp.
“Shepherds in the Parking Lot,” Rampike,
Vol. 10, 1990. Fiction, 1 pp.
“it couldn’t
have happened to a nicer person...,” ”the stars are a pale pox on the sky’s
dark chicken...”;”four daunces”; “in a few minutes i will tell you about
geography,” West Coast Line, No.3, Winter 1990. Fiction/poetry, 8 pp.
“sand”; “king”; “rabbit,” This Magazine,
October 1990. Fiction, 2 pp.
“Phallic totem,” 2 cents worth #1 (curved
H&z), 1990. Poetry, 1 p.
“Hallelujah,” Impulse, May 1990. Poetry, 1
p.
“Buffalo Twang,” NARC #3, 1990. Poetry, 1 p.
“have you
ever been outside on a summer evening,” Issue (Niagara Artists’ Centre),
Vol.2, No.1, January-February 1990. Fiction, 1 p.
“dlo dnop”; “counting up to four,”
Industrial Sabotage #47, January 1990. Poetry, 1 p.
“the sun
disappears behind clouds,” New Muse of Contempt, Vol.3, No.4, 1989.
Poetry, 1 p.
“have you
ever been outside on a summer evening”; “the hills were burning when...”
Poetry Canada Review, Vol. 10, No.4, 1989. Fiction, p.1.
“abulatif”; “old mother”; “daniel,” Mythic
Circle #7, 1989. Fiction/poetry, 2 pp.
“The Fabulous
Rhyming Dictionary,” The Journal of Wild Culture, Winter 1989-90. Fiction, 1
p.
“King Arthur Was A Mountie,” The Round
Table, Vol. 5, 1989. Poetry, 2 pp.
“Pumpkin Seed Landscape,” Spudburn #5,
Psycho Potato Press, Sept. 1989. Poetry, 1 p.
“huey long, louisiana governor...,” Dwarf
Puppets on Parade, No. 2, 1988. Poetry, 1 p.
“An amazing man,” Industrial Sabotage,
No.44, 1988. Poetry, 1 p.
“3 ukiah poems,” sh’wipe O, 1988. Poetry, 3
pp.
“sign,” sh’wipe M, 1988. Poetry, 1 p.
“from speech and thought balloons for
esperanto children”, sh’wipe L, 1988. Poetry, 4 p.
“Ukiah: frogsongs 1-6,” Toronto South Asian
Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1987. Poetry, 2 pp.
“waiting for d,” The Shit, December 1987.
Poetry, 1 p.
“mike”; “head,” Industrial Sabotage, No. 42,
1987. Poetry, 2 pp.
“rhinoceros,” Inkstone, Summer 1987. Poetry,
1 p.
“five for your daughters,” Push Machinery,
1987. Poetry, 1p.
“from ‘speech & thought balloons for
esperanto children’” Mondo Hunkamooga, No. 5, 1986. Poetry, 1p.
from “speech
& thought balloons for esperanto children,” Industrial Sabotage #39, 1986.
Poetry, 1 p.
Four Visual
Poems; “On Nukes and Rhyme schemes...,” Lucky Jim’s, No. 3, 1986. Poetry, 4
pp.
“Memory,” What, No.3, 1986. Fiction, 1 p.
“height above sea on ground...,” Industrial
Sabobtage #37, 1986. Poetry, 1 p.
from “speech and thought balloons for
esperanto children,” Score #9, 1986. Poetry, 1 p.
“First there was a witchhunt...” What, No.
1, 1985. Poetry, 1 p.
“the noun is in your hands,” Thalia
Bullwinkle Review, No. 2, 1985. Poetry, 1 p.
“three, four five and six: scores for
musicmovement,” Score #7, 1985. Poetry, 1 p.
“five was burning,” Lost and Found Times
#21-22, 1985. Fiction, 1 p.
“all this holiness...,” Industrial Sabotage,
No. 34, 1985. Poetry, 1 p.
“Still Life in the Colour of Europe,” Ottawa
View, August 1985. Fiction, 2 pp.
“Wolf is at the door,” The Scrivener, 1983.
Poetry, 1 p.
“Orange You Glad,” Event, Vol. 11, No. 2,
1982. Poetry, 1 p.
7. Journal and Magazine Publications –
Children and YA Writing.
“Accidental Gold,” Chickadee, June 2008.
Fiction, 2 pp.
“Ou est ton nez?” (Where is your Nose?),
Les explorateurs, Jan-Fev 2008. Fiction, 2 pp.
“There
Goes Your Nose,” Chickadee, December 2006. Fiction, 3 pp.
“Owl Grown Up,” Chirp, January/February
2006. Fiction, 4 pp.
“Faraaz’s Lucky Breaks,” Chickadee,
September 2005. Fiction, 2 pp.
“Doug’s Perfect Hiding Spots,” Chirp, June
2005. Fiction, 4 pp.
“Stanley’s Secret: The Diary of a Cat Spy,”
Chickadee, December 2004. Fiction, 1p.
“Pie in the Sky Summer,” Chickadee, Summer
2004. Fiction, 4 pp.
“Uncle Meatball Goes Bananas,” Chirp, May
2004. Fiction, 1 p.
“The Stanley Hic! Cup,” Chickadee,
January/February 2004. Fiction, 3 pp.
“Letter from Grandma’s,” Chirp, March 2002.
Poetry, 1 p.
8. Journal and Magazine Publications –
Articles (Non-fiction)
“Music for Writers 4: The Sound of One Face Flapping and the
Slow Unfolding of Prisoner Time," Lemon Hound, May 27, 2011.
http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2011/03/music-for-writers-2-luciano-berio-and.html
"Music for Writers 3:
The Music of Speech," Lemon Hound, May
9, 2011.http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-for-writers-3-music-of-speech.html
“Music
for Writers 2: Luciano Berio and the Labyrinth of Meaning,” Lemon Hound,
March 23, 2011.
http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2011/03/music-for-writers-2-luciano-berio-and.html
“Music for Writers 1:
Trevor Wishart, the Supervoice, and the Boundaryless Alchemy of Image,”
Lemon Hound, March 9, 2011.
http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2011/03/music-for-writers-1-trevor-wishart.html
“On Merrill
Gilfillan,” Lemon Hound, March 10, 2009. http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/03/gary-barwin-on-merrill-gilfillan.html
“Elegy for a Poodle,”
Geist Magazine #71, Winter, 2008. 2 pp.
“Seeing our city through the eyes of a
poet,” Hamilton Spectator, May 17, 2008. 1 p.
“James Tenney and the Theory of
Everything,” Musicworks #99, Winter 2007. 4 pp.
“Martin’s
Idea: an Interactive Computer Music/Text Composition,” Rampike Vol. 13, #2,
2004. 2 pp.
“From
the Ghetto to the Ghetto Blaster: the Contribution of Jewish Musicians to
Western Music,” Canadian Jewish News, September 1999. 2 pp.
“Composers in
Electronic Residence,” Canadian Music Educator, Vol. 40, No.1, Fall 1998. 3
pp.
“Not
Frumpy, Wispy, Finicky Or Aesthetic: Ideas in the Music of Louis
Andriessen,” Musicworks 60, Fall 1994, pp.32-40. 8 pp.
9. Journal and Magazine Publications -
Reviews
Review of N.J. Dodic’s “Muck (novel),”
Quill & Quire, March 1996. 1 p.
Review of Jeremy Fox’s “The Chocolate Man
(novel),” paragraph, March 1996. 1 p.
Review of
recordings “On the Way to Bethlehem,” “Heaven and Earth,” “Quartet for the
End of Time,” Classical Music Magazine, March 1996. 1 p.
Review of
recording “Emotion” by David Eagle and Hope Lee, SoundNotes 7,
October 1995. 1 p.
Reviews of
recordings “Orchestral Works” by Lothar Klein, and “Dialogics” by David
Keane, SoundNotes 6, March 1994. 1 p.
Reviews of
recordings “Tongues of Angels” by Lawrence Cherney, and “Byzantium” by
Christos Hatzis, Classical Music Magazine, February/March 1994. 1 p.
Reviews of
recordings “Regarding Starlight” and “ne blamez jamais les bedoiuns,”
SoundNotes 5, October 1993. 1 p.
Review of
Selima Hill’s The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness, What
Magazine #25, November/December 1990. 1 p.
Review of Lost and Found Times
magazine, Mondo Hunkamooga #3, 1983. 1 p.
10. Recent Interviews
The Great Canadian Writers Craft Interview,
Open Book Toronto, July, 2011.
http://www.openbooktoronto.com/greatcanadianwriterscraft/blog/great_canadian_writers_craft_interview_gary_barwin
Q
& A with local author, Interview with Dave Kuruc, H Magazine, November 2010.
http://www.new.hmag.ca/?p=1458&print=1
“A
Grammatical Scale,” Interview with Alessandro Porco, OpenBook Toronto, June
28, 2010.
http://www.openbooktoronto.com/aporco/blog/grammatical_scale_interviewwith_gary_barwing
“Coming Soon: Gary Barwin’s The
Porcupinity of the Stars.” Interview with Erin Balser. Torontoist, August,
24, 2010.
http://theexcerpt.com/2010/08/coming-soon-gary-barwins-the-porcupinity-of-the-stars/
Gary Barwin: a few words and a poem,
Interview with Sina Queyras, Lemon Hound, November 2008.
http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2008/11/gary-barwin-few-words-and-poem.html
“12
or 20 Questions with Gary Barwin.” Interview with rob mclennan. rob
mclennan’s blog, January 12, 2008.
http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2008/01/12-or-20-questions-with-gary-barwin.html
