Stuart Barnes's Blog, page 9

Thanks to Mark Ward for including my cento ‘couple(t)s’ in Issue 7 of Impossible Archetype alongside poems by Carole Anzovin, Maura Beste, Erica Gillingham, Jee Leong Koh, Travis Chi Wing Lau, Richard Leis, Jeff Mann, Stephen S. Mills, Eric Norris, Liz Quirke and Cyril Wong et al.

You can read the full issue here.

‘How does knowledge intersect with intuition, sensation and emotion to shape writings about plants?’ asks guest editor John Charles Ryan in his Editorial to Plumwood Mountain’s Plant Poetics issue. ‘How might poetry trouble the dominant perceptions of flora as beautiful objects, pleasing scenery or exploitable resources? How can we learn to approach the biosphere from an emplanted perspective—one recognising plant wisdom—rather than consigning the botanical to the background?’

Pleased to have a poem, ‘Call me Rose Dorothea. I prefer the word / for the thing to the thing itself.’, in this issue alongside beauties by Magdalena Ball, Michelle Cahill, Stuart Cooke, Jane Gibian, Tim Heffernan, John Kinsella, Vanessa Page, Anita Patel, Tracy Ryan, Brenda Saunders and Ben Walter et al. Thanks to John and Managing Editor Anne Elvey.

You can read the full issue here.

Eleven poems from Form & Function, my second poetry manuscript, have been included in Stephen J. Williams’ fantastically interactive unfurl/2 alongside writing and art by Steve Cox, Nigel Cross, Peter Lach-Newinsky and Robyn Rowland. And do check out unfurl/1, which features writing and art by Davide Angelo, Anne Casey, Susan Wald and James Walton.

Happy to have a couple of poems — ‘Triolet: Cerberus and Eros’, ‘Death’s Triolet’ — in the spring issue of The Night Heron Barks, alongside writing by Kelli Russell Agodon, Gustavo Hernandez and Carl Phillips. Do follow and read this sparkling new journal. Thanks and Huzzah! to Rogan Kelly, Philip F. Clark, Michele Karas, T. Nicole Cirone and Annell López.

You can read the full issue here.

My poem ‘From The Morning’, about life after rape and some of the songs, poems, novels and landscapes that make it a mostly good one, appears in APJ 9.2 ‘DIS—’, guest-edited by Jennifer Harrison and Andy Jackson.

‘Dis–,’ writes Jackson in his foreword, ‘is the prefix that is pre-fix, before a broken situation or body is repaired. These poems capture and convey the tension and potency of such unresolved states.’

This issue also includes poetry by J V Birch, David Brooks, Quinn Eades, Gavin Yuan Gao, Anna Jacobson, Heather Taylor Johnson, Elif Sezen, Emily Sun, Saba Vasefi, Samuel Wagan Watson and Rae White.

If you’re an Australian Poetry subscriber you get a copy of ‘DIS—’ sent to you, or you can buy a copy here.

Happy to have a short piece, ‘Old Habits Die Hard’, in Spineless Wonders’ SCARS anthology, which includes the winners and other finalists of the 2019 NWF/joanne burns Microlit Award, as well as writing commissioned by judge and editor Cassandra Atherton.

Congratulations to all, especially National Winner Kate Rees and Hunter Region Winner Shaynah Andrews, and thanks to Cassandra Atherton and to publishers Bronwyn Mehan and Spineless Wonders. 

You can order a copy of SCARS, which includes writing by Magdalena Ball, Jen Craig, Susan Francis, Benjamin Laird, Raelee Lancaster, Samuel Wagan Watson and Jessica Wilkinson, here.

Southerly Journal’s 80th (!) issue is out now and includes my poem ‘Pork Chops’, a prime sestina, my variation of the sestina in which the number of syllables in the title and in every line and in the poem (including the title) is a prime number.

This issue also includes poetry from joanne burns, Jocelyn Deane, Dave Drayton, Jonathan Dunk, Anne Elvey, Toby Fitch, Jane Gibian, Bronwyn Lovell, Beth Spencer, Gavin Yates and Grace Yee.

You can buy print and digital copies here and read free content (poetry, non-fiction/memoir/essays, fiction, reviews, and Jack Cameron Stanton’s interview with Michelle de Kretser) at the Long Paddock. 

You can read ‘Curtal Sonnet’, which remixes some of the text from ENTRIP’s CMI and samples S’Express’ ‘Theme from S-Express’, here. 

You can read ‘The morning fog (A Golden Shovel after Kate Bush)’ here.

Do check out the other writing in this issue of Griffith Review: editor Ashley Hay’s introduction; poetry by Stuart Cooke, Shastra Deo, Sarah Holland-Batt, Anna Jacobson, Ella Jeffery, Daniel Swain and Laura Taylor; memoir by Krissy Kneen; fiction by Keren Heenan, Pat Hoffie, Allanah Hunt, Julienne van Loon, Holly Ringland and Mirandi Riwoe; and Tara June Winch’s special series in celebration of the International Year of Indigenous Languages.

Overland’s spring issue is out now and includes my poem ‘Curtal Sonnet’, which remixes some of the text from ENTRIP’s CMI and samples S’Express’ ‘Theme from S-Express’, which samples umpteen trax … This issue also includes poetry by Dave Drayton, Anne Elvey, Lujayn Hourani, Damen O’Brien, Melody Paloma, Autumn Royal, Anders Villani and Grace Yee.

You can buy a copy here.