Stuart Barnes

Delighted & honoured that LIKE TO THE LARK has won the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry. Thanks to the Prize Selection Committee & Faculty of Arts @ArtsUnimelb @UniMelb; my incredible publisher & editor @terriannwhite @UpswellP & @FelicPlunkett; my family & friends 🕊️♥️

🌾The Braided Gift, edited by Shari Lynelle & Lucy Van, is now live! New poems by 38 Australian & international poets explore the ‘gift’ in its tender, tangled forms—making, mourning, remembering & renewal. 🌿Read the full issue: bit.ly/3Jsl0zk

📣 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 Learn more: poetryday.ie

Read the full poem by clicking the link: link in our bio. loom.ly/C5dQyyI @stuartabarnes #FridayPoem #InstaPoem #PoetsOfInstagram #RedRoomPoetry #AustralianPoetry

Cordite 115: SPACE with @aliciasometimes is now live! So much excellent and deep space and micro space. @creative_gov_au @Creative_Vic cordite.org.au/content/poetry…

Happy new year! Issue 5 is here with all poems translated into Welsh/Cymraeg, including features with Martin Crucefix, Natalie Ann Holborow and Duriel E. Harris - with thanks to the @Books_Wales modronmagazine.com/issue-five-con…

@FelicPlunkett ‘Let's go, let's go, let's go to this magic wonder show’ (✨🕊🕊❤️❤️❤️🥰) youtube.com/watch?v=dIYPeL…

Legendary Melbourne poet π.O. (Pi.O.) has been announced the winner of the 2024 Patrick White Literary Award! He will receive $20,000 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Australian literature. giramondopublishing.com/pi-o-wins-2024…

WATCH THE FULL TROXY PERFORMANCE NOW AT thecure.lnk.to/TroxyLiveStream #SONGSOFALOSTWORLD

Thrilled to be part of this beautiful anthology with my story, Northbound, about a sad man in a motorway cafe. It was a finalist in the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize held in conjunction with the Bodleian Library's recent Kafka exhibition. @Oxfordflash

WATCH LIVE AT TheCure.lnk.to/TroxyLiveStream #TheCure #songsofalostworld

NEW DROP! Songs Of A Lost World is the long-awaited new album from @thecure, their 14th studio release and their first in 16 years, pressed to glow-in-the-dark cut-out picture disc with heat sensitive thermochromic sleeve, limited to 6,000 units: blood-records.co.uk/products/thecu…

New interview today with Jane Lovell @wordcurlz at @ModronMagazine Interview by @glynfedwards . modronmagazine.com

HUGE CONGRATS to ALLAN BEHM. This is my second Upswell-Behm book and the last was also shortlisted here. "Award was established in 2022 to highlight and celebrate the significant role political books play in better understanding politics & public policy.

My forthcoming #poetry pamphlet 💕

#NEWonSRB: What does it mean to think of the sea as alive with meaning? @killian_quigley takes on James Bradley’s challenge to think more deeply about the ocean not only as an object of ecological concern, but also a site of ethical and imaginative renewal.buff.ly/404P61J

Hell Herons’ fourth single ‘The Literaries’ (words & music the brilliant @NGFeathers) is out today 🎧 You can purchase the track at Bandcamp, listen on all major streaming platforms & watch the promo at YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=FhIedt… @MelindaLSmith @CJBowerbird

After careful consideration, judges Karen Wyld and Eugenia Flynn have selected five outstanding poems to form this year’s Nakata Brophy Prize shortlist! Congratulations to the following poets: Georgia Malu, Bebe Oliver, Sharleigh Crittenden, Mia Thom, and Yasmin Smith.