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'Winner of the 2015 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry trumpeting through blood & bone the glasshouse's yellow stars Glasshouses is an inventive, incandescent collection by one of Australia's most talented new poets. Drawing on a number of complex techniques, Stuart Barnes illuminates both city and coastal life, with allusions to classical and contemporary culture. Replete with extraordinary imagery, the poems maintain a beautiful accessibility and coherence despite their continually twisting, even disjointed figures.' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Epigraph:
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
– William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Affiliation Notes
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Writing Disability in Australia:
This work was affiliated because it contains poems that reflect the author's own experiences with chronic illness and a bulging disc spine injury.
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Works about this Work
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[Review Essay] Glasshouses
2017
single work
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— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 1 2017; 'Stuart Barnes’s Glasshouses is poetry set to an almost self-consciously cool soundtrack of throwback hits and B-sides by The Cure, Pulp, Suede, L7, The Stranglers, My Friend the Chocolate Cake, and Antony and the Johnsons. Throw in some late-80s Australian pop courtesy of Kylie Minogue and the Chantoozies and you have an idea of the eclectic mix-tape mash-up that was the winner of the 2015 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize.' (Introduction) -
Poetic Play and Politics
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 29 November 2016; (p. 11)
— Review of Glasshouses 2016 selected work poetry
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Poetic Play and Politics
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 29 November 2016; (p. 11)
— Review of Glasshouses 2016 selected work poetry -
[Review Essay] Glasshouses
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 1 2017; 'Stuart Barnes’s Glasshouses is poetry set to an almost self-consciously cool soundtrack of throwback hits and B-sides by The Cure, Pulp, Suede, L7, The Stranglers, My Friend the Chocolate Cake, and Antony and the Johnsons. Throw in some late-80s Australian pop courtesy of Kylie Minogue and the Chantoozies and you have an idea of the eclectic mix-tape mash-up that was the winner of the 2015 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2017 shortlisted ASAL Awards — Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
- 2016 commended Anne Elder Award