Winner of the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an unpublished manuscript, commended for the 2016 FAW Anne Elder Award for best first book of poetry, shortlisted for the 2017 ASAL Dame Mary Gilmore Award for best first book of poetry. Glasshouses is an inventive, incandescent collection by one of Australia's most talented new poets. Drawing on a number of complex techniques, Stuart Barnes illuminates both city and coastal life, with allusions to classical and contemporary culture. Replete with extraordinary imagery, the poems maintain a beautiful accessibility and coherence despite their continually twisting, even disjointed figures.