How Things Are on Thursday

by Barber, Ros

• ISBN13: 9780856463747
• ISBN10: 0856463744
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-01
• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry

Summary

A striking performer of her own poems, Ros Barber has the gift of re-creating her voice-and the voices of others-on the page. The poems in this debut collection demonstrate her skill in highlighting the extraordinary within the commonplace. With their leavening of dark humor and their formal dexterity, her poems entertain and provoke. Born in 1964 in Washington, DC, Ros Barber now lives in Brighton.

Author Biography

Ros Barber was born in 1964 in Washington DC, but her family moved to England during her first year. She studied Biology at the University of Sussex, then English Literature and Philosophy with the Open University, while working as a computer programmer. Since 2000 she has worked as a freelance writer and creative writing tutor for the University of Sussex.

Table of Contents

Liberation	9	(1)
Lafayette Super Eight	10	(8)
Green	18	(1)
Fish	19	(1)
Well	20	(2)
Pronoun	22	(2)
Soup	24	(1)
Who Forgets	25	(1)
He'd Push My Hands Together	26	(2)
Appointment	28	(1)
Waiting for Scott	29	(1)
Surfers at Sennen	30	(9)
Embassy Court
First Thought	32	(1)
Little Miss Bauhaus	33	(1)
The Babe	34	(1)
What Happens to Women	35	(1)
Refugees	36	(1)
Sunk	37	(1)
Goddess	38	(1)
Fecundity	39	(1)
BN1	40	(2)
Helping the Police with Their Enquiries	42	(2)
The Gentle Way	44	(1)
Missing the Opera with My Sister	45	(1)
Airtight	46	(2)
Old School Friends	48	(1)
I Filled the Bath with Coty L'Aimant	49	(3)
One Way of Falling	52	(12)
How Things Are on Thursday
How Things Are on Thursday	54	(1)
Why Sleep is Dangerous	55	(2)
Where to Go	57	(1)
When She Pretends to Be Swimming	58	(2)
What Gives	60	(3)
Who Marks Himself	63	(1)
The Dancer	64