Stuart Barnes

My poem ‘Red Right Handfish’ in Cordite Poetry Review’s PRECARIOUS issue. Thanks to guest editor Andy Jackson & production editor Alex Creece ❤️ Full issue: cordite.org.au/poetry/preca...

Photo: Handfish Conservation Project @utas.edu.au @imas-utas.bsky.social @utasenglish.bsky.social #redhandfish

2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize The longlist for the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced Australian Book Review is delighted to announce the longlist for the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. The prize was judged by Judi...

The 2026 Australian Book Review Peter Porter Poetry Prize longlist has been announced! As a judge this year together with Felicity Plunkett and Anders Villani, I am deeply grateful to all who entered for entrusting us with reading your poems. 
www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-progr...

We’re back!
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...

Odd Wren’s End-words - Plumwood Mountain 'Odd Wren’s End-words' by Stuart Barnes.

‘Odd Wren’s End-words’ contains thrilling codes and allusions, honouring, among others, Gwen Harwood

plumwoodmountain.com/poem/odd-wre...

Bound - Plumwood Mountain 'Bound' by Felicity Plunkett.

My poem ‘Bound’ in the new issue of Plumwood Mountain Journal is in excellent company, starting with @stuartabarnes.bsky.social’s bristling anagrammatic ‘Odd Wren’s End-words’. Thanks to guest editors Shari Lynelle and Lucy Van, and editor Amanda Lucas-Frith

plumwoodmountain.com/poem/bound/

I’ve an anagrammatic poem, ‘Odd Wren’s End-words’, in The Braided Gift, the latest issue of Plumwood Mountain Journal. Thanks to guest editors Shari Lynelle & Lucy Van & managing editor Amanda Lucas-Frith ❤️

plumwoodmountain.com/poem/odd-wre...

Delighted to be a juror for the wonderful @montrealprize.bsky.social in 2026

Read the new issue, out now.

This month’s issue includes a previously unpublished poem by Dorothy Porter alongside poems by Mindy Gill and Peter Goldsworthy.

Sylvia Plath reading

Sylvia Plath, born 27th October, 1932

Including poems by Charmaine Papertalk Green, Ellen van Neerven, Dženana Vucic and Toby Fitch

Read the new October issue, out now.

Lavender and Bee
Brush Pen and Coloured Pencils on A5

Reference pic by @stuartabarnes.bsky.social

#TheDrumAndPage
#PentelFude
#StaedtlerPencils

Thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and @randallmann.bsky.social for selecting this poem for the Poem A Day feature. 💖🐯

Happy and honoured to be appointed Poetry Editor with the wonderful @austbookreview.bsky.social and to work with editor Dr Georgina Arnott

After what has been, in layman's terms, a fornicatory disaster of a day, I needed to ground myself, which means a return to the simple things that give me joy. In this case, drawing flowers.
This image was based on a photo by @stuartabarnes.bsky.social
#TheDrumAndPage
#ContinuousLineDrawing

This Friday, May 2nd, is Bandcamp Friday. From midnight to midnight PST, we'll once again waive our revenue share, ensuring more money goes directly to artists. Mark your calendars and get those wishlists ready!

🚃 Find this year's selection of Poetry Day Poems across various @irishrail.bsky.social DART services! Discover all Poetry Day Poems at poetryday.ie

⏳Counting Down: 8 Days to go! Poetry Day Ireland 2025 takes place on Thursday 1st May 2025.
#PoetryDayIRL #MayDay

Duplex by Stuart Barnes

The Australian poet's book Like to the Lark (Upswell Publishing, 2023), awarded the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry & shortlisted for the 2024 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Duplex was originally published in Modron Magazine (2024).

#PoetryDayIRL

Why do we turn to poetry? A poem for Ireland this May Day Poet in Residence with Poetry Ireland Anne Tannam welcomes us to this year's Poetry Day Ireland celebrations...

Poetry Ireland's Poet in Residence Anne Tannam welcomes @rte.ie to this year's Poetry Day Ireland celebrations.

"Poetry lovers of the world, unite! Go on, spread a little poetry, spread a little hope."

Read Anne's full article here: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

A poster designed for Poetry Day Ireland 2025. The poster has a deep green background with an illustrated sun at the top and spring flowers at the bottom. There is white text just above the centre of the poster that reads: Poetry Day Ireland May Day, Thursday 1 May 2025. #PoetryDayIRL, poetryday.ie

📣 Poetry Day Ireland returns 1st May 2025 with the theme May Day!🎉

#MayDay symbolises renewal, hope, & abundance, while also paying homage to International Workers’ Day, a time for reflection on solidarity, unity, & collective strength.

ℹ️ Discover #PoetryDayIRL at poetryday.ie

The poets are Gabriel Rosenstock, Othuke Umukoro, Róisín Leggett Bohan, Enda Coyle-Greene, Rosamund Taylor, Lorna Shaughnessy, Jo Bear, Stephen de Búrca, Stuart Barnes, Alan Titley, Diarmuid Johnson, & Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin.

✏️Learn more about Poetry Day Ireland 2025 at poetryday.ie

🎉 Poetry Ireland is delighted to announce 12 poems will feature across the Irish Rail network and in libraries nationwide to celebrate Poetry Day Ireland on 1st May 2025.

🌞 Discover the #PoetryDayIRL Poems: www.poetryireland.ie/poetry-day/d...

@irishrail.bsky.social #MayDay #PublicPoetry

Glossy and delightful Labrador apparently reading Best of Australian Poems 2024

This year’s Best of Australian Poems is a superb anthology, edited by luminaries Kate Lilley and @shastradeo.bsky.social. I’m very happy my poem ‘Tender’ is part of it, and in such good company.

A stormy blue-grey sky with a barely visible rainbow

Quiet rainbow (especially for @stuartabarnes.bsky.social 🌈❤️)

My laughter doesn’t go unvoiced: Like to the Lark by Stuart Barnes It has been six years since I first read Australian poet Stuart Barnes’ debut poetry collection, Glasshouses. I don’t know how many times I have recommended the book in the meantime—whenever som...

My first review of the year is up on my blog. I write about Stuart Barnes' latest poetry collection, Like to the Lark.
roughghosts.com/2024/01/12/m...

thanks Helen — the skies are so clear here 🤍