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New poems in foam:e and StylusLit

Three new poems have recently gone online:

‘Blindness’ and ‘In the navy’, at foam:e, edited by Angela Gardner and Carmen Leigh Keates;

‘The 52 Hertz Whale’, in StylusLit, edited by Rosanna Licari.

These journals also include poems by David Adès, Davina Allison, Natalie D-Napoleon, Rose Hunter, Andy Jackson, Rebecca Jessen, Heather Taylor Johnson, Jill Jones, Brenda Saunders, Ynes Sanz, Shriram Sivaramakrishnan, David Stavanger, Les Wicks and Jena Woodhouse.

New poem in Marrickville Pause

Pleased to have a new poem, ‘Chalicento’ (a cento from Ern Malley), in Marrickville Pause Issue 3: Spiel, edited by Jake Goetz. Jake’s also included two poems that were first published in Glasshouses: ‘ENDONE® Oxycodone hydrochloride 5 mg’ (a remix of ENDONE Oxycodone hydrochloride’s CMI) and ‘The Rabbit Catcher’ (a remix of Sylvia Plath’s ‘The Rabbit Catcher’).

You can read all three, plus writing by Ken Bolton, Pam Brown, Nick Chlopicki, Toby Fitch, Walter Gabriel, Duncan Hose, Cath Kenneally, Melody Paloma, Eva Philips and Kelly Poole, here.

New poems in Plumwood Mountain, Cordite, Overland

Three new poems have recently gone online:

‘senescencento’, at Plumwood Mountain, guest edited by Michael Farrell;

‘Double Acrostic’, at Cordite, guest edited by Lachlan Brown and Nathanael O’Reilly;

‘From Nonets’, at Overland, edited by Toby Fitch.

These issues also include poems by Lisa Brockwell, Eileen Chong, Carmine Frascarelli, Jill Jones, Chris Lynch, Alvin Pang, Jonno Revanche, Michele Seminara and Jessica L Wilkinson.

Glasshouses reviewed by Magdalena Ball

Warm thanks to Magdalena Ball for reviewing Glasshouses so generously:

a powerful debut full of tight craftsmanship, and decentred, multi-vocalled poems that combine a temporal urgency and emotional drama with rhythm, form, structure and a creative ‘uncreativity’ that is both delicate and powerful. Sonnets, villanelle, sestina, found poems, acrostics, and remixes all reference one another and themselves, shifting through an unreliable lens of memory, self-awareness, changing identity, and a progression that works not so much from youth to age but from naivety to understanding.

You can read Magdalena’s full review here.

Perth Festival Writers Week 2018

I’m delighted to be appearing in two events at Perth Festival Writers Week 2018: GLASSHOUSES (a conversation with Vivienne Glance about my poetry collection Glasshouses and borrowed word-worlds) and POETRY LAND I (a reading with Charmaine Papertalk-Green, Caroline Abbs, Tineke Van der Eecken and Corey Wakeling).

Tickets for these and other Perth Festival Writers Week 2018 events are on sale now.

Huge thanks to guest curator William Yeoman and to everyone at University of Queensland Press.

GLASSHOUSES: Songs from the poetry collection and then some

I had a blast putting this playlist together.

‘GLASSHOUSES: Songs from the poetry collection and then some’, featuring The Cure, Nick Drake, Ofra Haza, Abel Korzeniowski, Low, Pulp, Squarepusher, etc, is available now on Spotify.

Happy listening!

Idly tossing stones: Glasshouses reviewed by Joseph Schreiber

Warm thanks to Joseph Schreiber for writing about Glasshouses so thoughtfully:

[This] is a collection that feels intensely intimate and personal, in the sense that Barnes seems to be engaging directly with his reader, sharing his love of the poets who have guided him, directly or through his careful reading, drawing inspiration from his family and from his own experience as a gay man, and openly riffing on the influence of music and pop culture. The wide range of voices that emerge, together with the variety afforded by his delight in structure and form, allows for a reading experience that never falls into tired and predictable patterns.

And here’s Joe on the cento (my book includes five):

If a line that catches me short in a cento actually originates from another work, who owns the power? The poet who crystalized the image, or the poet who re-envisions it, a jewel among other salvaged (and fully credited) jewels? Or—and I should hope this is correct—both but in different ways?

You can read Joe’s full review here and buy a copy of Glasshouses here (use promo code CELEBRATE at checkout to receive free shipping, Australian and New Zealand shipping addresses only, offer ends midnight January 10).

New poems in Glasgow Review of Books

I’ve two newish poems in Glasgow Review of Books. ‘Glasshouses Redux’ was influenced in part by Golden Boy with Miss Kittin’s ‘Rippin Kittin (Glove Tension Dub)’, while ‘namesakes’ responds to 2017’s Tropical Cyclone Debbie. Thanks to poetry editor Samuel Tongue.

New poem in Overland

I’ve a cento about kindness (with lines from joanne burns, Jill Jones, John Kinsella, David Malouf, Dorothy Porter et al) in Overland 229, out this week, alongside many of my favourite writers. Thanks to editors Toby Fitch and Jacinda Woodhead. You can pre-order a copy here.

Tincture Journal Issue 20

The final Tincture is available now!

Issue 20 includes fiction by Nigel Featherstone, non-fiction by Johannes Klabbers, creative non-fiction by Yen-Rong Wong, and poetry by Alice Allan, Luke Best, Jennifer Compton, Shastra Deo, Alison Flett, Rachael Guy, Carmen Leigh Keates, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Paul Scully and Jane Williams.

You can read the Editorial, by Daniel Young and myself, here, and buy a copy here.

Thanks to Daniel Young, to every poet who sent their work to Tincture, to every reader, subscriber and supporter! Five years … A real blast!