STIRRING
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
BARNABY SMITH
it’s quite a thing
isn’t it
that the seaside is still there
at night—a splendid pile of pure form /
the ocean keeps going in the dark,
an amplified phase / & in the morning
there it is / persisting in its obvious codes
& its coma
Barnaby Smith is a poet, critic, journalist and musician living on Darug and Gundungurra land in New South Wales, Australia. Recent work has appeared in journals or anthologies such as Stand, Blackbox Manifold, 3AM, Best Australian Poems, Tentacular, Ranger and Blaze Vox, as well as Cordite, Southerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Australian Poetry Anthology, and more. He is an award-winning art and music critic, and records music under the name Brigadoon, having released the album, Itch Factor, in 2020: www.brigadoon.bandcamp.com.He is also a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney.
