Stuart Barnes (poet)  Stuart Barnes (born 1977) is an Australian poet. Barnes was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and educated at Monash University, Victoria. His first book, "Glasshouses", was awarded the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. The judges of the Anne Elder Award, for which the collection was commended, wrote: "Barnes is compelling, dramatic and imaginative. ... [He] is a major poet in the making; watch this space!". In "The Sydney Morning Herald", Jane Sullivan included "Glasshouses" in 'Books for the year: The treats in store from Australia and overseas in 2016'. The collection has been warmly received by critics: in "The West Australian", William Yeoman described it as "playful, subtle, moving, witty and outrageous - a major achievement"; in "The Australian", Geoff Page noted its "impressive balancing act between a love of precursors and the strategies of the avant-garde". Barnes' poetry has appeared widely in Australian journals, including "Cordite", "Overland" and "Southerly", and has been anthologised. Other writing, as selected by Nick Earls, has been published to goa, a network of digital billboards throughout South East Queensland, as part of Queensland Writers Centre's #8WordStory initiative. Barnes has been a judge for the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards: Poetry Book Category and the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award; since 2017 he has been a Program Advisor for Queensland Poetry Festival. From 2014 to 2015 he was poetry editor of "Verity La", and from 2013 to 2017 he was poetry editor of "Tincture Journal". In 2018 he served on the advisory board of Bent Window Books and returned to "Verity La" as editor of their Out of Limbo project. "Glasshouses" (University of Queensland Press, 2016, ).