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Stuart’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Stuart’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Glasshouses
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Admissions: Voices within Mental Health
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Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman
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Like to the Lark
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Best of Australian Poems 2022
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New poem in Plumwood Mountain Journal
Pleased to have a poem, ‘Odd Wren’s End-words’, in The Braided Gift issue of Plumwood Mountain Journal which includes beauties by Jo Bear, Luoyang Chen, Eartha Davis, Dave Drayton, Elena Gomez, Siobhan Hodge, A. Frances Johnson, Jo Langdon, Felicity Plunkett, Svetlana Sterlin, Sean West and more. Thanks to guest editors Shari Lynelle and Lucy Van and managing editor Amanda Lucas-Frith.
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“Through the small windows, through the plane tree
branches, new lime-green leaves, it's no longer
winter. He stands naked for a moment,
eager for company, invites it, knows.
His heart is thumping hard inside his chest.
He leans his head onto the edge, eyes closed.”
― Glasshouses
branches, new lime-green leaves, it's no longer
winter. He stands naked for a moment,
eager for company, invites it, knows.
His heart is thumping hard inside his chest.
He leans his head onto the edge, eyes closed.”
― Glasshouses
“The little thickets were the only place to get to.
The absence of the sea
Set a white, extravagant quiet.
I awaited the great beauty of the gorse—”
― Glasshouses
The absence of the sea
Set a white, extravagant quiet.
I awaited the great beauty of the gorse—”
― Glasshouses
“Rape declared nuclear war, but I am not rape
-torn or -weary, a rape trophy or poet.”
― Like to the Lark
-torn or -weary, a rape trophy or poet.”
― Like to the Lark
“Through the small windows, through the plane tree
branches, new lime-green leaves, it's no longer
winter. He stands naked for a moment,
eager for company, invites it, knows.
His heart is thumping hard inside his chest.
He leans his head onto the edge, eyes closed.”
― Glasshouses
branches, new lime-green leaves, it's no longer
winter. He stands naked for a moment,
eager for company, invites it, knows.
His heart is thumping hard inside his chest.
He leans his head onto the edge, eyes closed.”
― Glasshouses
“Red-
tailed Bedouins
of Poetry, black
cockatoos embroider
the sun into us,
seam-rip it asunder.”
― Glasshouses
tailed Bedouins
of Poetry, black
cockatoos embroider
the sun into us,
seam-rip it asunder.”
― Glasshouses
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William wrote: "Thank you for the friendship!"Great to connect here! Thanks, William.
Hey Stuart!Thank ya kindly for the friend invite!
Scream is a groovy choice. It’s definitely up there for me, too. 🤟🏻
Tracey wrote: "Thanks for the friend invite Stuart!"Great to connect here, Tracey!
Thank ya kindly for the friend invite!
Scream is a groovy choice. It’s definitely up there for me, too. 🤟🏻"
I still watch bits of it through my fingers! Great to connect here, Kyle!