Things I Did While I Was Dead

Recently named "literary hero" by The Skinny, Rosie is an award-winning poet, novelist and singer with post-punk band The March Violets. With a passion for language nurtured by libraries, she started out in spoken word, garnering praise from Apples and Snakes as "one of the country's finest performance poets". Her debut novel, The Palace of Curiosities [HarperCollins, 2013], was nominated for both The Desmond Elliott and the Polari First Book Prize and won Book of the Year in the Co-op Respect Awards 2013. Her second novel, Vixen [Borough Press, 2014], was a Green Carnation Prize nominee. Her third, The Night Brother, was published in 2017.

"Candid, tender and surprising, these are poems about love and longing, myth and mirrors, the self and the other self. Things I Did While I Was Dead packs a powerful punch." - Jackie Kay MBE, poet & novelist; "One of the country's finest performance poets." - Apples and Snakes; "She is the mistress of language, whether it's making you laugh or informing your emotions. Here is a courageous artist with guile and expertise in equal measure." - Gerry Potter, poet & playwright; "A national treasure." - Dead Good Poets Society