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    Glasshouses
    Glasshouses
    Glasshouses
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    Glasshouses

    By Stuart Barnes

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Queensland Press
    Release dateAug 24, 2016
    ISBN9780702257735
    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

      ENDONE® Oxycodone hydrochloride 5 mg

      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

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