Stuart Barnes

Stuart Barnes is the author of Glasshouses (UQP 2016), which won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was commended for the Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award. Twitter/Instagram: @StuartABarnes

Articles by Stuart Barnes:

Published in Overland Issue 245 Summer 2021 · Poetry

Boys don't cry

Stuart Barnes

Once upon a time, a boy leapt into a poster's figure, a poster's figure a boy F lamboyancy! The boy was teased for teasing his hair: Nancy boy! For his 16th birthday the boy received a guitar from his wandering father A Bm C#m D Doesn't mean you're one of the boys spat C#m Bm C#m Bm C#m Bm

Published in Overland Issue 236 Spring 2019 ·

Curtal Sonnet

Stuart Barnes

ENTRIP does not contain any safe benefits. It is not approved for use in hives of aggro child -ren. Yellow tongue, nose-bruising, swelling of the eyes

Published in Overland Issue 229 Summer 2017 ·

From Nonets

Stuart Barnes

Kindness and the mask of kindness are the same: a kindly man, with blue irony and kindness. Ashbery days

Published in Overland Issue 205 Summer 2011 ·

sad

Stuart Barnes

The venetians creak – fog’s tonnage. Condensation gasps on glassy corners, gloomy Xmas