I'll be reading at the Ledbury Poetry Festival with Glyn Maxwell on Friday 10th July, 2.30pm.
More details available here:
http://www.poetry-festival.com/Pages/2009programme.html
Friday 29 May 2009
Wednesday 14 January 2009
University of Sussex - Poetry Reading
Wednesday 4th February 2009
1.15 - 1.45pm
Recital Room, Falmer House
(up the stairs next to the Union Shop)
As part of Julian Broughton's lunchtime recital programme, I'll be giving a relaxed 30 minute reading on campus from my recently published and PBS Recommended* book, 'Material'. Current postgrad colleagues and former students will be warmly welcomed. 'Outsiders' will not be turned away either. This is poetry, and we love audiences, no matter how intimate. Do come along and, in the immortal words of George Bernard Shaw, bring friends if you have any.
Free entry.
*Might as well milk it while I can.
1.15 - 1.45pm
Recital Room, Falmer House
(up the stairs next to the Union Shop)
As part of Julian Broughton's lunchtime recital programme, I'll be giving a relaxed 30 minute reading on campus from my recently published and PBS Recommended* book, 'Material'. Current postgrad colleagues and former students will be warmly welcomed. 'Outsiders' will not be turned away either. This is poetry, and we love audiences, no matter how intimate. Do come along and, in the immortal words of George Bernard Shaw, bring friends if you have any.
Free entry.
*Might as well milk it while I can.
Wednesday 3 December 2008
Institute of Ideas Postgraduate Forum
Institute of Ideas Postgraduate Forum
Wednesday 17 December
Room H208, Connaught House, London School of Economics.
7pm
For map click here
Ros Barber (PhD University of Sussex) will present: Questioning the Shakespearean Orthodoxy
ABSTRACT: Does it matter who wrote the works of Shakespeare? Would we read the plays and poems any differently if we believed they were written byChristopher Marlowe? We may be about to find out. Until recently it was believed that doubts about Shakespeare's authorship of the works attributed him were first raised 164 years after his death, and that the Shakespeare
Authorship Question is a relatively recent phenomenon. This paper will demonstrate that doubts about Shakespeare's authorship began in the year of the very first publication to appear under the name 'William Shakespeare' and provide evidence from the late 16th and early 17th centuries to suggest a number of Shakespeare's contemporaries believed that 'Shakespeare' was a pseudonym.
That such evidence exists and has been largely ignored by scholars raises interesting questions about the nature and influence of our belief systems. When we 'know' something we will tend not to perceive evidence conflicting with that belief, and will attempt to interpret evidence to support it. This research suggests that scholarship - in all disciplines - would benefit significantly if we were able to remove restrictions to our thinking by recognising that all 'knowledge' is essentially 'belief'.
Further reading: Diana Price "Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of An Authorship Question" (Greenwood Press, 2002). A very interesting scholarly account of the (absence of) evidence underpinning Shakespeare's accepted biography, and how radically this differs from other Renaissance writers. Her appendix on literary paper trails is particularly
illuminating.
Format: After a brief introduction from the chair, Ros will present for about 30 minutes. This will be followed by a brief exchange with the chair, drawing out the major themes. We will then open to discussion with points and questions from the floor for about an hour and then head to the pub to continue the discussion informally.
Wednesday 17 December
Room H208, Connaught House, London School of Economics.
7pm
For map click here
Ros Barber (PhD University of Sussex) will present: Questioning the Shakespearean Orthodoxy
ABSTRACT: Does it matter who wrote the works of Shakespeare? Would we read the plays and poems any differently if we believed they were written byChristopher Marlowe? We may be about to find out. Until recently it was believed that doubts about Shakespeare's authorship of the works attributed him were first raised 164 years after his death, and that the Shakespeare
Authorship Question is a relatively recent phenomenon. This paper will demonstrate that doubts about Shakespeare's authorship began in the year of the very first publication to appear under the name 'William Shakespeare' and provide evidence from the late 16th and early 17th centuries to suggest a number of Shakespeare's contemporaries believed that 'Shakespeare' was a pseudonym.
That such evidence exists and has been largely ignored by scholars raises interesting questions about the nature and influence of our belief systems. When we 'know' something we will tend not to perceive evidence conflicting with that belief, and will attempt to interpret evidence to support it. This research suggests that scholarship - in all disciplines - would benefit significantly if we were able to remove restrictions to our thinking by recognising that all 'knowledge' is essentially 'belief'.
Further reading: Diana Price "Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of An Authorship Question" (Greenwood Press, 2002). A very interesting scholarly account of the (absence of) evidence underpinning Shakespeare's accepted biography, and how radically this differs from other Renaissance writers. Her appendix on literary paper trails is particularly
illuminating.
Format: After a brief introduction from the chair, Ros will present for about 30 minutes. This will be followed by a brief exchange with the chair, drawing out the major themes. We will then open to discussion with points and questions from the floor for about an hour and then head to the pub to continue the discussion informally.
Tuesday 28 October 2008
Reading at Waterstones, Brighton
Poetry Reading: Material
WATERSTONE'S BRIGHTON
Thursday, 20 November 2008,
7:00PM - 8:00PM
Tickets £3, available from the shop and redeemable against purchase of the books on the night.
WATERSTONE'S BRIGHTON
Thursday, 20 November 2008,
7:00PM - 8:00PM
Tickets £3, available from the shop and redeemable against purchase of the books on the night.
Ros Barber will be reading from her new collection of poems, 'Material'. Joe Winter will also be reading from his new Rabindranath Tagore translations, 'The Golden Boat'.
Further details: 01273 206017
Reading at Goldsmiths
The Department of English & Comparative Literature presents:
ROS BARBER and NAOMI FOYLE reading from their new collections:
Material and The Night Pavilion, both PBS recommendations.
Time: 5.00 p.m.
Date: Wednesday 19th November
Venue: Senior Common Room
Richard Hoggart Building
Please email Maria Macdonald at or tel. 020 7919
7436 if you wish to attend
ROS BARBER and NAOMI FOYLE reading from their new collections:
Material and The Night Pavilion, both PBS recommendations.
Time: 5.00 p.m.
Date: Wednesday 19th November
Venue: Senior Common Room
Richard Hoggart Building
Please email Maria Macdonald at
7436 if you wish to attend
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester: Coffee Morning
Pallant House Gallery Coffee Morning
Thursday 30th October
A special event, organised by the Friends in collaboration with the Book Shop, to meet the award-winning contemporary poet Ros Barber (former Poet in Residence at Pallant House Gallery) and purchase copies of her new published book of poems, which contains poems composed in response to works of art in the permanent collection.
10.30am-12 noon
£8.50/£5 students/£1 friends of PHG
coffee included
Thursday 30th October
A special event, organised by the Friends in collaboration with the Book Shop, to meet the award-winning contemporary poet Ros Barber (former Poet in Residence at Pallant House Gallery) and purchase copies of her new published book of poems, which contains poems composed in response to works of art in the permanent collection.
10.30am-12 noon
£8.50/£5 students/£1 friends of PHG
coffee included
Friday 26 September 2008
Material Launch
Material is being launched in Brighton above the Quadrant pub (clock-tower) on Thursday October 23rd at 7.30pm. Anyone wishing to attend should send an e-mail info@rosbarber.info so your name can go on the guest list.
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