A striking performer of her own poems, Ros Barber has the gift of recreating her voice - and the voices of others - on the page. The poems in this debut collection demonstrate her wide range in form and subject and her skill in highlighting the extraordinary within the commonplace. With their leavening of dark humour and their formal dexterity, her poems charm, entertain and provoke. Ros Barber was born in 1964 in Washington DC. After growing up in Colchester, she studied Biology at the University of Sussex and worked for some time as a computer programmer. She lives in Brighton with her...
A striking performer of her own poems, Ros Barber has the gift of recreating her voice - and the voices of others - on the page. The poems in this deb...
Ros Barber's second book forms a meditation on human loss; it is a more personal and autobiographical collection than her first, described by Neil Rollinson as an honest, unflinching and hugely satisfying debut'. Sarah Law described her as a "traditional" contemporary poet along the lines of Larkin' and it is Barber's sure hand with rhyme and meter that gives the hard material of these poems (both personal losses and those experienced through others) their steady focus and makes them so readable. Throughout, the poetry remains strong, thoughtful and refreshing. Ros Barber was born in 1964 in...
Ros Barber's second book forms a meditation on human loss; it is a more personal and autobiographical collection than her first, described by Neil Rol...
Winner of the 2013 Desmond Elliott Prize Longlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction
You're the author of the greatest plays of all time. But nobody knows. And if it gets out, you're dead.
On May 30, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was killed in a tavern brawl in London. That, at least, was the official version. Now Christopher Marlowe reveals the truth: that his "death" was an elaborate ruse to avoid a conviction of heresy; that he was spirited across the English Channel to live on in lonely exile; that he continued...
Winner of the 2013 Desmond Elliott Prize Longlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction
"Barber's sensational premise delivers an unexpectedly piercing exploration of loss and different kinds of faith." Kirkus Reviews The new novel from the award-winning author of THE MARLOWE PAPERS, winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize, and long-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 It is the near future, and moves have been made to classify religious fundamentalism as a form of mental illness. Criminal psychologist Finlay Logan must assess the sanity of a young woman who has committed a religiously-inspired atrocity, but in a state of grief after the...
"Barber's sensational premise delivers an unexpectedly piercing exploration of loss and different kinds of faith." Kirkus Reviews
