The Most Charming Creatures

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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MULTIDISCIPLINARY AUTHOR: Barwin is a respected poet and an accomplished novelist, winner of the 2016 Leacock Medal for Humour, and twice the Canadian Jewish Literary Award. Barwin has been nominated for most major Canadian writing prizes including the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award, and the National Magazine Awards. He is also a composer with a Ph.D. in music composition and was a writer-in-residence at Western University, Laurier University, Univerity of Toronto, McMaster University, Sheridan College, Hamilton Public Library, Hillfield Strathallan College, London Public Library, and Toronto Public Library.
EACH POEM IS STRANGE AND SURPRISING: Using translation, mistranslation, anecdote, and fables, and drawing often mischievous inspiration from YouTube, National Geographic, canonical poems, CanLit, science, slang, friendship, and Soviet children’s animations, The Most Charming Creatures addresses how the body and language mediate our experience of the world, both consoling and challenging us.

Audience

Contemporary poetry readers
CanLit poetry crowd and reviewers