Stuart Barnes (poet)

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Stuart Barnes
Born
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Alma mater Monash University
Notable workGlasshouses, Like to the Lark
Awards2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry,
2021/22 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
Website www.stuartabarnes.com

Stuart Barnes (born 1977) is an Australian poet.

Biography

Barnes was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and educated at Monash University, Victoria. His first book, Glasshouses, was awarded the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. [1] The judges of the Anne Elder Award, for which the collection was commended, wrote: "Barnes is compelling, dramatic and imaginative. ... [He] is a major poet in the making; watch this space!" [2] In The Sydney Morning Herald , Jane Sullivan included Glasshouses in 'Books for the year: The treats in store from Australia and overseas in 2016'. [3] The collection has been warmly received by critics: in The West Australian , William Yeoman described it as "playful, subtle, moving, witty and outrageous—a major achievement"; [4] in The Australian , Geoff Page noted its "impressive balancing act between a love of precursors and the strategies of the avant-garde". [5]

Contents

In his conference paper 'Sonnets and Para-Sonnets', Stephen Guy-Bray, Professor, Department of English, University of British Columbia, wrote:

Barnes's poems are often created out of other poems, whether literally—as in the case of the five centos he includes [in Glasshouses]—or more metaphorically, as in his use of sonnet form and of quotations. In Glasshouses the sonnet is only one form among many that Barnes plays with, just as the lines of other people’s poetry that make up all of the centos are only one kind of quotation among the many others—conversation, texts, brand names, place names—that fill the book. In blurring the lines between sexual and poetic activity, Barnes sets up a consolation for the lack of sexual success that [his sonnet '10:15 Saturday Night'] recounts, a consolation that is arguably implicit in almost all the sonnet sequences ever written, and certainly in the most famous ones. By the end of the poem the poet Barnes most resembles is perhaps not Shakespeare or any of the other sonneteers of the sixteenth century but rather (to me, at least) Hart Crane. [6]

Barnes's second book, Like to the Lark (Upswell Publishing, 2023), includes the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize-winning 'Sestina after B. Carlisle', [7] the Montreal International Poetry Prize-shortlisted 'Off-world Ghazal' [8] and the Pushcart Prize-nominated 'Cerberus Watches Eros' (first published as 'Triolet: Cerberus and Eros' [9] ). In The Sydney Morning Herald, Jane Sullivan included Like to the Lark in 'What are you going to read in 2023? Here are some standout titles'. [10] Like to the Lark won the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry. The Prize Selection committee praised its 'extraordinary poems, which draw their forms from across the planet, mix deep history and pop music, personal extremity and sophisticated humour, in such striking and memorable ways that each rereading proves even more rewarding than the last.' [11]

Barnes's poetry has been widely published in anthologies and journals, including in The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, [12] Cordite Poetry Review, [13] The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry, [14] The Montreal International Poetry Prize Anthology 2020, [15] The Moth , [16] Overland , [17] Poetry , [18] Poetry Wales [19] and Southerly ,. [20] Other writing, as selected by Nick Earls, has been published to goa, Brisbane’s broadcast roadside digital billboard network, as part of Queensland Writers Centre's #8WordStory initiative. [21]

Barnes has been a judge for the 2014 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards: Poetry Book Category, [22] the 2017 Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award, [23] the 2021 Red Room Poetry Fellowship [24] and the 2022 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. [25] From 2017–2019 he was a program adviser for Queensland Poetry Festival. [26] From 2014 to 2015 he was poetry editor of Verity La, [27] and from 2013 to 2017 he was poetry editor of Tincture Journal. [28] In 2018 he served on the advisory board of Bent Window Books and guest-edited, with Quinn Eades, Cordite Poetry Review Issue 88: TRANSQUEER. [29] In 2020 he guest-edited, with Charmaine Papertalk Green, Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry Issue 32: FORM. In 2021 he guest-edited, with Claire Gaskin, Australian Poetry Journal 11.1 'local, attention'. [30]

Bibliography

Poetry collections

Anthologies (as contributor)

Awards and nominations

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References

  1. ↑ "Barnes wins 2015 Thomas Shapcott Prize". Books and Publishing. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  2. ↑ Anne Elder Award Judges' report
  3. ↑ "Books for the year: The treats in store from Australia and overseas in 2016". 24 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Poetic play and politics
  5. ↑ Australian poetry: Bruce Dawe, Barnes, Jaireth, McCooey
  6. ↑ Sonnets and Para-Sonnets: Stephen Guy-Bray on Stuart Barnes's Glasshouses and Lyn Hejinian's The Unfollowing
  7. ↑ Barnes, Stuart. "Sestina After B Carlisle – by Stuart Barnes". Island Magazine. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  8. ↑ Barnes, Stuart. "Off-world Ghazal". Montreal Poetry Prize. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  9. ↑ Barnes, Stuart. "Triolet: Cerberus and Eros". Night Heron Barks. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  10. ↑ Sullivan, Jane. "What are you going to read in 2023? Here are some standout titles". The Sydney Morning Herald. Nine Entertainment Co. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  11. ↑ "Barnes wins Wesley Michel Wright Prize". Books+Publishing. 19 October 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
  12. ↑ The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, MUP
  13. ↑ Stuart Barnes at Cordite Poetry Review
  14. ↑ The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry, MadHat Press
  15. ↑ The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2020, Vehicule Press
  16. ↑ The Moth Issue 42
  17. ↑ Stuart Barnes at Overland
  18. ↑ Stuart Barnes in POETRY (Chicago)
  19. ↑ Poetry Wales 57.1
  20. ↑ 'Double Acrostic' by Stuart Barnes
  21. ↑ Beautiful 8 Word Stories Are Cropping Up On Queensland Billboards
  22. ↑ Winners of the 2014 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards
  23. ↑ Winners for the Val Vallis Award for an Unpublished Poem 2017
  24. ↑ 2021 Red Room Poetry Fellowship, Fellow's Statement and Judging Notes
  25. ↑ 2022 Thomas Shapcott Prize Awardee and Judges' comments
  26. ↑ Queensland Poetry Festival Program Advisers
  27. ↑ Poems from Glasshouses: Stuart Barnes/Leigh Backhouse
  28. ↑ Stuart Barnes, interviewed by Daniel Young
  29. ↑ Cordite Poetry Review, Stuart Barnes, Quinn Eades, Miss Saffaa, TRANSQUEER
  30. ↑ Australian Poetry Journal, Stuart Barnes, Claire Gaskin
  31. ↑ Like to the Lark, Upswell Publishing
  32. ↑ Glasshouses, University of Queensland Press
  33. ↑ Best of Australian Poems 2022, Australian Poetry
  34. ↑ Admissions: Voices within Mental Health, Upswell Publishing
  35. ↑ Alcatraz, Gazebo Books
  36. ↑ MadHat Press, The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry
  37. ↑ Spineless Wonders, Travel anthology
  38. ↑ Resilience: 2021 ACU Prize for Poetry Anthology, ACU
  39. ↑ Memory Book: Portraits of Older Australians in Poetry and Watercolours, Hunter Publishers
  40. ↑ The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, MUP
  41. ↑ Spineless Wonders, Pulped Fiction anthology
  42. ↑ The Montreal International Poetry Prize Anthology 2020, Vehicule Press
  43. ↑ Spineless Wonders, Scars anthology
  44. ↑ Going Postal: More than 'Yes' or 'No', Brow Books
  45. ↑ Shaping the Fractured Self: poetry of chronic illness and pain, UWA Publishing
  46. ↑ States of Poetry Queensland - Series One
  47. ↑ Time with the sky : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2010, Hunter Writers' Centre
  48. ↑ The Night Road : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2009, Hunter Writers' Centre
  49. ↑ "ALS Gold Medal 2024 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 6 June 2024. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  50. ↑ "Barnes wins Wesley Michel Wright Prize". Books+Publishing. 19 October 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
  51. ↑ "2023 Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award winners". Queensland Poetry. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  52. ↑ "Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize winners: 2021/22". Island Magazine. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  53. ↑ Travel: an anthology of microlit, Spineless Wonders
  54. ↑ Resilience: 2021 ACU Prize for Poetry Anthology, ACU
  55. ↑ Pushcart Prize 2020 Nominations
  56. ↑ Read the 2020 shortlist and winning poem
  57. ↑ Scars: an anthology of microlit, Spineless Wonders
  58. ↑ "The 2017 Venie Prize Winners", News, 10 August 2017.
  59. ↑ Mary Gilmore Award 2017 shortlist announced
  60. ↑ Anne Elder Award Judges' report
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  62. ↑ The Night Road : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2009, National Library of Australia
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