The morning fog (A Golden Shovel after Kate Bush)

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Stuart Barnes

Stuart Barnes’s first poetry collection, Glasshouses (UQP, 2016), won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was commended for the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted...

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