'Stuart Barnes is a poet and poetry editor of Tincture Journal. His manuscript The Staysails won the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and will be published by University of Queensland Press in 2016. Bend River Mountain, with fellow poets Robbie Coburn, Nathan Hondros, Rose Hunter, Carly-Jay Metcalfe & Michele Seminara, is forthcoming from Regime Books. He tweets as @StuartABarnes. He took a moment to talk to us about the line between confession and poetry, meeting Gwen Harwood, and collaboration.' (Publication abstract)