Posted on July 22, 2012 by rosbarber
One of the reasons I took solace in writing from an early age is because I experienced myself as a social incompetent. Starting with my family of origin, and largely due to the mess of the situation I found myself growing up in, I found people generally difficult: I was always getting it wrong, saying […]
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Posted on July 6, 2012 by rosbarber
As a friend of mine posted on Facebook recently, ‘summer this year was on a Tuesday’. The creative Yorkshire enclave of Hebden Bridge has experienced a particularly British summer this year, and the week before we arrived for the New Blood (New Novelists) event at Hebden Bridge Arts festival had suffered serious flooding. One result […]
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Posted on June 22, 2012 by rosbarber
The Marlowe Papers – London reading On Sunday Sept 30th, Ros Barber will read from and talk about The Marlowe Papers. The event will be held in the wonderful historic setting of the excavated footings of the original Rose Theatre, not far from The Globe on the south bank of the Thames. Ros will read from […]
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Posted on June 21, 2012 by rosbarber
Conference: Other Voices Other Times Title of Paper: Resurrecting Marlowe Abstract: The Marlowe Papers (Sceptre, 2012) is the fictional autobiography of sixteenth century playwright Christopher Marlowe and is a novel written entirely in blank verse. In this presentation I will share the processes that led to its construction over a four year period and which […]
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Posted on June 20, 2012 by rosbarber
Edinburgh Book Festival 2012 highlights. INSIDE THE MINDS OF CONAN DOYLE AND MARLOWE Sometimes, taking a risk on the less well known authors pays off. In what promises to be one of the Edinburgh Book Festival 2012 highlights, Ros Barber (The Marlowe Papers) and John O’ Connell (The Baskerville Legacy) talk about recreating the inner […]
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Posted on June 20, 2012 by rosbarber
Bodies in the Bookshop 2012 Saturday 14th July from 10am The Cambridge Union Society, 9A Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UB (link to: http://www.cus.org/about/where-find-us) Ros is on at 1.30, see below: Join us in the Cambridge Union for our biggest crime fiction event of the year! This year Bodies in the Bookshop is relocating to the Cambridge […]
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Posted on June 19, 2012 by rosbarber
Isn’t poetry difficult and dull? Though the population contains a small percentage of poetry lovers, the idea that poetry isn’t pleasurable is all-pervasive. It’s easy to blame our education system (and it certainly has a lot to answer for with regards to the seed of this idea being planted) but the truth is, there’s a […]
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Posted on June 13, 2012 by rosbarber
http://www.poetry-festival.com/workshops.html Writers block, fear of failure, a general lack of inspiration – these are the states of mind that make it impossible to write well. Successful writing depends entirely upon mental processes. Come and learn a simple technique that will allow you to break through the blocks and drop some of your writing ‘baggage’ in […]
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Posted on June 13, 2012 by rosbarber
http://www.poetry-festival.com/live-readings.html Ledbury Poetry Festival Event 67 Marlowe expert and poet, Ros Barber, introduces The Marlowe Papers – hotly tipped to be the read of the summer. ‘Immensely clever, capacious, ingenious and imaginative.’ (Hilary Mantel) ‘Not only a homage to Marlowe but a celebration of poetry – and of its power to allow the dead to […]
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Posted on June 7, 2012 by rosbarber
Ros will be headlining with Niall and Little Machine in ”Beyond Words’ at the Crystal Palace Overground Festival. Date: Sunday 16 June 2012 Time: 4-6pm Venue: Westow Park, Crystal Palace, London SE19 Details: Crystal Palace Overground Festival Website
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Posted on June 4, 2012 by rosbarber
Edited highlights from the British Library launch of The Marlowe Papers. The shoes, which garnered many comments, are Irregular Choice ‘Can’t Touch This’. Yet another reason (if any more were needed) to adore Brighton.
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Posted on May 18, 2012 by rosbarber
Following on from the encounter started in Munich at the W-ORTE literary festival in 2010, Aprilia Zank and Anne Stewart, poet and ‘poetry p f’ tutor, are very pleased to announce a significant literary event on 27 May in London. TIME: from 3 p.m. onwards. The event will bring together ‘poetry p f’ members and […]
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