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'The long-awaited second collection from the winner of the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize.
'In his stunning collection of new poetry, Stuart Barnes reimagines the poetic form and fearlessly explores topics of illness, death, rape, remembrance, ecology and love.
'Like To The Lark is Stuart Barnes's accumulation of lifetime fascinations with music and sound, form and transformation. Beginning with an apparition of a doomed world brooding over itself and ending with a kvelling globe, this collection plunges into seas, scoots across countries and hurtles towards space.' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Author's note:
i.m. Noel Backhouse
but the sea
does not change
E.E. Cummings, '[as is the sea marvelous]'
i.m. Alexander 'Sandy' Mitchell
Recitar!...Vesti la giubba
Ruggero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci
I'm writing this for you, wherever you are, whoever is staring into your blue eyes.
David Malouf, 'Revolving Days'
What a lark! What a plunge!
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Glittering Diadem : The Paraphernalia of Poetry
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 459 2023; (p. 41)
— Review of Like To The Lark 2023 selected work poetry 'A book review is a review of a book. This sounds obvious enough but can put the reviewer in a position they would not wish to be in as a more casual reader: that of not just reading a book’s poems, but also feeling a need to attend to the rest of the book – that is, the book’s paratexts.' (Introduction)
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Glittering Diadem : The Paraphernalia of Poetry
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 459 2023; (p. 41)
— Review of Like To The Lark 2023 selected work poetry 'A book review is a review of a book. This sounds obvious enough but can put the reviewer in a position they would not wish to be in as a more casual reader: that of not just reading a book’s poems, but also feeling a need to attend to the rest of the book – that is, the book’s paratexts.' (Introduction)
