Ros Barber
Dr Ros Barber | |
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| Born | 1964 |
| Occupation | novelist, poet, academic |
| Nationality | British |
| Notable work | The Marlowe Papers |
| Notable awards | Desmond Elliott Prize, Authors' Club Best First Novel Award |
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Ros Barber (born 1964) is an English novelist and poet.[1] She is a university lecturer in English. Her 2008 poem "Material" appears in England's current school sixth-form syllabus.[2]
Academe
Ros Barber is currently a lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.[3]
She has a BSc in Biology, an MA in creative writing, the arts and education, and a PhD in English literature, all from the University of Sussex, near Brighton. She also has an Open University BA in English literature and philosophy.[4] She has worked as a computer programmer.[5]
Novels
Barber's first novel, The Marlowe Papers (2012), is written in verse. Barber is a Marlovian,[6] and in the book Marlowe's "death" is a ruse and he writes plays under Shakespeare's name. The book won the Desmond Elliott Prize[7] and the Authors' Club First Novel Award.[8] Her second, Devotion (2015), was shortlisted for the Encore Award.[9][failed verification]
Ros Barber made an appearance at the Brighton Fringe in 2012.[10][11] Her own stage adaptation of The Marlowe Papers was performed in 2016.[12]
Poetry
Barber is the author of three volumes of poetry. The most recent, Material (2008), was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. Its title poem, which also appears in the Faber anthology Poems of the Decade (2015), is on the current EdExcel 'A' Level syllabus in England, while her poem "How to Leave the World that Worships Should" has been set for AQA English Literature GCSE.[13]
Bibliography
Novels
- The Marlowe Papers (2012)
- Devotion (2015)
Poetry
- How Things Are On Thursday (2004)
- Not the Usual Grasses Singing (2005)
- Material (2008)
Stage
- The Marlowe Papers (2016)
Non-fiction
- 30 Second Shakespeare (2015)
References
- ^ Forward Arts. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ "Amendment to GCE AS and A level English Literature, Prescribed texts – Poems of the Decade" (PDF). pearson.com. Pearson. 4 January 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ Goldsmiths page. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ Goldsmiths College site. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ^ Masters, Tim (28 June 2013). "Author faced 'hostility' over book". BBC. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ Nicholl, Charles (25 January 2013). "Exiting the Stage". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
Dr. Barber is a "Marlovian," not only in the generic and beneficial sense of being an admirer of Marlowe, but in the more specific and, some will say, more tiresome sense of being a believer in the theory that Marlowe wrote the plays of Shakespeare.
- ^ Masters, Tim (27 June 2013). "The Marlowe Papers wins Desmond Elliott Prize". BBC News. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ "Ros Barber – The Poetry Society". poetrysociety.org.uk. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ Devotion review. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ Author's page. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ^ Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ^ Staged Marlowe Papers. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ^ "GCSE English Language Literature Handout – Preparing to Teach". aqa.org.uk. AQA. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
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