GARY BARWIN + KATHRYN MOCKLER ME THEN YOU THEN ME THEN
“Grandma says regret is like having sex with a ghost,” the book opens. By the end, we’ve met support group loudmouths, hope the size of a grain of rice, Céline Dion, various undulations, and one thousand donkeys. No regrets here. - The Pamphleteer
KATHRYN MOCKLER + GARY BARWIN
ME THEN YOU THEN ME THEN
Poetry. Chapbook.
ISBN 978-1-989355-24-4
Cover: Kirby
Layout: R. Kolewe
GARY BARWIN is a writer and multidisciplinary artist and the author of twenty-four books of poetry and fiction. His latest books include Ampers&thropocene (Penteract, 2020), A Cemetery for Holes 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, Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy will appear from Random House in 2021. He lives in Hamilton and at garybarwin.com
KATHRYN MOCKLER is a poet, writer, and screenwriter. She is the editor of Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books, 2020) and her debut collection of stories is forthcoming from Book*hug in 2022. @themockler