Ros Barber is an award winning poet and writer. She gives performances of her work and conducts poetry and creative writing workshops for people of all ages.
Amongst other writings she has two books published. How Things Are On Thursday (Anvil, 2004) is a collection of poems about childhood, lost innocence, the ups and downs of family life, and human relations. Not The Usual Grasses Singing:A Journey Around The Isle of Sheppey (Four Shores, 2005) is a series of linked narratives written entirely in rhyming couplets inspired by a year spent researching in a econmically deprived but beautiful area of North Kent.
For the Compton Skyline Project she has been writing haiku with Year 11 students from Dorothy Stringer, and the Preston Park Bowls club. "Recently I've been writing longish narrative poems with an inward focus, so it's really refreshing to turn to a form that's brief, fragmentary and outward-facing."