Stuart Barnes on form in poetry

Stuart Barnes is the author of Like to the Lark (Upswell Publishing, 2023), awarded the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry, shortlisted for the 2024 ALS Gold Medal and highly commended in the 2024 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and of Glasshouses (UQP, 2016), awarded the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, commended in the 2016 Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the 2017 Mary Gilmore Award. Stuart, Nigel Featherstone, Melinda Smith and CJ Bowerbird are Hell Herons, a spokenword+music collective whose debut album, The Wreck Event, is out now at Bandcamp and on all major streaming platforms. www.stuartabarnes.com www.hellherons.com Like to the Lark is available here: https://upswellpublishing.com/product/like-to-the-larkGlasshouses is available here: https://www.uqp.com.au/books/glasshouses Producer & Presenter: Tina Giannoukos