Glasshouses

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.