Material was published by Anvil in October 2008 and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation."Material makes for an intelligent, affecting book of poems... Ros Barber’s poetry is highly readable, and as such, deserves to be read." - PN Review
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How Things Are On Thursday was published by Anvil in September 2004."Barber’s special distinction is that she has succeeded in writing a collection which grants as much to the general reader as it does to the devotee of contemporary poetry." - PN Review
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Not The Usual Grasses Singing:A Journey Around The Isle of Sheppey
was published in September 2005 by Four Shores.A result of the Four Shores: Artworks for Sheppey project. For further details click here.
Currently under construction: The Marlowe Papers (due Spring 2011)
Over 50 poems have been published in journals and magazines including Poetry Review, The Independent On Sunday, Stand, The Rialto, London Magazine, New Welsh Review, Poetry London, The North, Rattapallax (New York) and many others.
Anthologies
Poems in the following anthologies:
The Forward Book of Poetry 2010 (Forward, 2009)
Women's Work (Seren, 2009)
The Forward Book of Poetry 2005 (Forward, 2004)
Anvil New Poets 3 ed. Roddy Lumsden, Hamish Ironside (Anvil, 2001)
The Tabla Book of New Verse 2000 (Tabla, 2000)
Wild Cards: the Second Virago book of Writing Women (Virago, 1999)
The Ring Of Words intro by Andrew Motion (Telegraph books, 1998)
What Will We Do When We Get There (ignotus, 1998)
Hard Lines 3 ed. Ian Dury, Tom Paulin, Fred D'aigur(Faber & Faber, 1987)
Children's Poetry
Poems for children in the following anthologies:
Monster Poems ed. Brian Moses (Macmillan Children's Books, 2005)
The Poetry Store ed. Paul Cookson (Hodder Children's Books, 2005)
The School Year ed. Brian Moses (Macmillan Children's Books, 2001)
Words to Whisper, Words To Shout ed. Michaela Morgan (Belitha Press, 2002)
(Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2003: Best Illustrated Book To Read Aloud)
Prose
Short stories in the following anthologies:
Reshape Whilst Damp ed. Carole Buchan (Serpents Tail, 2000)
IOS: Independent on Sunday/Bloomsbury Short Story Winners forward by Will Self (Bloomsbury, 1997)