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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]

In his conference paper 'Sonnets and Para-Sonnets', Stephen Guy-Bray, Professor, Department of English, University of British Columbia, said: "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 poetry has appeared widely in Australian journals, including Cordite,[7] Overland[8] and Southerly,[9] and has been anthologised.[10][11] Other writing, as selected by Nick Earls, has been published to goa, a network of digital billboards throughout South East Queensland, as part of Queensland Writers Centre's #8WordStory initiative.[12]

Barnes has been a judge for the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards: Poetry Book Category[13] and the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award;[14] from 2017–2019 he was a Program Adviser for Queensland Poetry Festival.[15] From 2014 to 2015 he was poetry editor of Verity La,[16] and from 2013 to 2017 he was poetry editor of Tincture Journal.[17] In 2018 he served on the advisory board of Bent Window Books and guest-edited, with Quinn Eades, Cordite Poetry Review Issue 88: TRANSQUEER.[18] In 2020 he guest-edited, with Charmaine Papertalk Green, Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry Issue 32: FORM.

Bibliography

Poetry collections

Glasshouses (University of Queensland Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-7022-5413-0).[19]

Anthologies (as contributor)

  • The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry. Eds Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington. (Melbourne University Press, 2020). [20]
  • Scars: An anthology of microlit. Ed. Cassandra Atherton. (Spineless Wonders, 2020). [21]
  • Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman. Ed. Raymond Luczak. (Squares & Rebels, 2019).
  • Going Postal: More than 'Yes' or 'No'. Eds Quinn Eades and Son Vivienne. (Brow Books, 2018).
  • Shaping the Fractured Self: poetry of chronic illness and pain. Ed. Heather Taylor Johnson. (UWA Publishing, 2017).[22]
  • States of Poetry Queensland - Series One. Ed. Felicity Plunkett. (Australian Book Review, 2016).[23]
  • fourW: new writing. Ed. David Gilbey. (fourW press, 2012, 2013, 2014).
  • Time with the sky : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2010. Eds Jill Jones and Anthony Lawrence. (Hunter Writers' Centre, 2010).[24]
  • The Night Road : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2009. Eds Jill Jones and Philip Salom. (Hunter Writers' Centre, 2009).[25]

Awards and nominations

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. ^ http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/books-for-the-year-the-treats-in-store-from-australia-and-overseas-in-2016-20151223-glu19y.html
  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. ^ 'Double Acrostic' by Stuart Barnes
  8. ^ 'From Nonets' by Stuart Barnes
  9. ^ 'Double Acrostic' by Stuart Barnes
  10. ^ On poetry and pain: Kevin Brophy reviews Shaping the Fractured Self
  11. ^ The Poem Exists First In The Body by Heather Taylor Johnson
  12. ^ Beautiful 8 Word Stories Are Cropping Up On Queensland Billboards
  13. ^ Winners of the 2014 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards
  14. ^ Winners for the Val Vallis Award for an Unpublished Poem 2017
  15. ^ Queensland Poetry Festival Program Advisors
  16. ^ Poems from Glasshouses: Stuart Barnes/Leigh Backhouse
  17. ^ Stuart Barnes, interviewed by Daniel Young
  18. ^ Cordite Poetry Review, Stuart Barnes, Quinn Eades, Miss Saffaa, TRANSQUEER
  19. ^ Glasshouses, University of Queensland Press
  20. ^ MUP, The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry
  21. ^ Spineless Wonders, Scars anthology
  22. ^ Shaping the Fractured Self: poetry of chronic illness and pain, UWA Publishing
  23. ^ States of Poetry Queensland - Series One
  24. ^ Time with the sky : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2010, Hunter Writers' Centre
  25. ^ The Night Road : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2009, Hunter Writers' Centre
  26. ^ Pushcart Prize 2020 Nominations
  27. ^ Read the 2020 shortlist and winning poem
  28. ^ "The 2017 Venie Prize Winners", News, 10 August 2017.
  29. ^ Mary Gilmore Award 2017 shortlist announced
  30. ^ Anne Elder Award Judges' report
  31. ^ Time with the sky : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2010, National Library of Australia
  32. ^ The Night Road : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2009, National Library of Australia
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