James Stuart, Anonymous Folk Songs candour and a sense of

candour and a sense of life’s absurdities are the outstanding qualities of this collection

shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize and joint winner of the Australian Book Design Association award for Best Designed Independent Book

WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL 5 ISLANDS POETRY PRIZE FOR A FIRST BOOK OF POETRY 2022

Archana Madhavan

(It appeared totally different from the way ‘a door’ looks

James Stuart, Anonymous Folk Songs candour and a sense ofHighly Commended in the Anne Elder Award 2014 Anonymous Folk Songs is James Stuarts first full length collection of poems. His other collection is Imitation Era (Rare Object Series, Vagabond Press, 2012). His previous work is largely intermedia. He was a 2008 Asialink Literature Resident in Chengdu, China, and works as a communications manager. The complex landscapes of today, urban and natural, become worldscapes and dreamscapes in James Stuarts