I’m thrilled about the second review of Glasshouses, which comes hot on the heels of the book’s Melbourne launch at The Brunswick Street Bookstore and a reading at La Mama Poetica.
Many thanks to Cass Moriarty for her detailed, appreciative, beautifully-written piece. And huge congratulations to Cass, whose novel The Promise Seed has been longlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award!
From Cass’ review:
‘[Stuart Barnes’] poetic pieces […] surprise us with their unusual structure and language, […] confront our close-held perceptions, and […] explore the spectrum of human emotion. Stuart skilfully plays with the poetic form throughout – making use of strange words, different fonts and unexpected punctuation, mixed in with more traditional structure. … [He] celebrates themes as diverse as the environment and landscape, literary repetition, and journeys. His poems explore sexuality, grief and illness. … Certain themes feature: the moon, colours, food, nature. … [Glasshouses] is not to be read once and discarded, but to be kept by the bedside, to be dipped into at will again and again …’
Stuart Barnes 
Hi Stuart,
Congratulations on the success and warm reception for Glasshouses. I have this on my Christmas gifts-to-self list, and I suspect from what I have already read of your poetry that I should buy a couple of spare copies to share.
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Hi Brad, Many thanks for the kind words. That’s really lovely to hear — I hope you enjoy the collection.
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