Glasshouses
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Stuart Barnes
Born in Essex, raised in Wales and educated at Oxford University, Stuart Barnes won ten caps for England before becoming the face – and voice – of rugby union on Sky Sports in 1994, where he continues to work today. An author of three books on rugby (Rugby’s New-Age Travellers was the runner up in the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award in 1997), he has written for a range of publications including Rugby World and the Telegraph and is a regular columnist for TheTimes and Sunday Times.
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Glasshouses - Stuart Barnes
Glasshouses
Stuart Barnes was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and educated at Monash University. He was runner-up for the 2014 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. Since 2013 he has lived in Central Queensland and been poetry editor for Tincture Journal. Glasshouses is his first book.
Praise for Glasshouses
‘A beautiful and sophisticated collection of poems. Drawing on a number of complex techniques … the manuscript presents a deeply poetic sensibility at work.’
—Judges’ comments, Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
‘Man moves in a world made of things, beings and events.
And things, beings and events move in the mind of man.
Living in this half-transparent state triggers poetic reactions,
strong and beautiful poems like the ones you’ll find in
Stuart Barnes’ Glasshouses.’
—Sjón
The Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize Series
Lidija Cvetkovic War Is Not the Season for Figs
Jaya Savige latecomers
Nathan Shepherdson Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror
Angela Gardner Parts of Speech
Sarah Holland-Batt Aria
Felicity Plunkett Vanishing Point
Rosanna Licari An Absence of Saints
Vlanes Another Babylon
Nicholas Powell Water Mirrors
Rachael Briggs Free Logic
David Stavanger The Special
Krissy Kneen Eating My Grandmother: a grief cycle
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
—William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Bay of Fires’
cockatoos embroider
a crèche of stars
night’s deer-sprint to the outdoor
churn’s venerable, ineluctable,
dizzying as Virgil
the moon is salubrious,
her vision’s sharper than the spectacled flying fox’s, her sight
might inscribe similar discs of stillness
Contents
Reflections
Fingal Valley
The Moon and the Mason Jars
Ebon Cans
13
из Poccии
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Black Cockatoos
Horus and Set
another journey by train
Dissociation
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Reflections
Deep Sea Love
Proverbs
I
Glasshouses
Port Curtis Road’s End
The Rabbit Catcher
10.15 Saturday Night
sad
The smile’s
eggshells
colour wheel
spark
i won’t let the sun go down on me
Five Centos
Cinquecento
Walking Wounded
Forcento
Moon-
Matrimonies
Cyclone Songs
Prelude
You do what you can, or Eleven Steps
Doubleness, with anagrams
Blessed be
Bees
Bursaria spinosa
First Mail
Cyclone Songs
Blackout
The ice storm’s
Coda
In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Drums
Cattle
Stern Man
Mr Gingerlocks
Cups
The Mixtape
In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Snowdrop in the Tropics
Double Acrostic
Notes
Acknowledgements
Reflections
Fingal Valley
Nan’s budgerigar,
cat fed