Gary Barwin
@garybarwin.bsky.social
writing, multimedia, music, art, Hamilton ON Canada https://linktr.ee/garybarwin “There’s a wisecrack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 31
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.
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There's NewPoetry today from Gary Barwin. newpoetry.ca/2026/08/03/t...
the stone was never a stone
Gary Barwin I push milk up the mountain of veins the goat of my brain dressed in tin foil my wife calls with dates available for my liver test not the 29th, but yes the 30th, aug 3, 10, 11, …
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The Comedian's Book of the Dead by @garybarwin.bsky.social and Dead Peasant by Lisa Baldissera are among the many great titles included on the Most Anticipated Fall 2025 Fiction list from @49thshelf.bsky.social. What a great forthcoming season for new fiction!
49th Shelf@49thshelf.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's here! Our Fall 2026 Fiction Preview with titles from @dundurnpress.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/07... #CanLit
Bingley arriving at Netherfield in Aether and Ego! Adapted from Hugh Thomson's illustration from the 1894 edition from publisher George Allen, with the famous peacock cover in forest green stamped in gold. Links in my bio. #BookSky #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #ButInSpace
Got upset and made this so hopefully people will actually listen. What the fuck are we doing here folks?
💫Coming soon! 💫The Comedian’s Book of the Dead by Gary Barwin, forthcoming September 22, 2026 with Book*hug Press. Request review or media copies here: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... @garybarwin.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social #canlit #litfic #bookstagram #ireadcanadian
… haunting detail, profound human understanding, and the dark humour we expect from this conjurer of the surreal. It’s a comparatively short novel with the depth and richness of a much larger one.
… many years later you get an unimaginable call. @garybarwin.bsky.social’s remarkable new novel The Comedian’s Book of the Dead traces the grim path between these two events through to their unfolding alt-Dante aftermath, with …
Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions
two wolves inside me one wolf says heh heh other wolf says heh heh, too. #shortpoemsunday
"Gravitas is not a fundamental force like snow, fear, memory and fortitude."
nothing like constructing eternity that shaggy dog smile, that goofy allure
I wonder what is the unit of measurement for how fast life is experienced and post of heavy baby memory music. open.substack.com/pub/garybarw...
What's the unit of measurement of how fast life is experienced?
What is the speed that life passes by?
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I wonder what is the unit of measurement for how fast life is experienced and post of heavy baby memory music. open.substack.com/pub/garybarw...
What's the unit of measurement of how fast life is experienced?
What is the speed that life passes by?
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Something about listening, the mysterious and nonelsewhereness garybarwin.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
What is the mysterious and why are we never happy?
What is the mysterious?
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