Career
Barr became creative director for the group in 2007. Her poetry has appeared in Landfall, Black Mail Press, Tongue in Your Ear, JAAM, De-Formed Paper, Enamel, Live Lincolnshire, Debate, The Wild Goose Poetry Review & Magazine. She has published two volumes of poetry, Tangents, 2006 (now out of print) and Observations from the Poetry Factory, 2007.
Both of these books were released with CDs of Barr"s poetry set to music
In 2007 Barr created the free, independent poetry zine, Side Stream, which she continues to edit and fund-raise foreign Barr has been one of the coordinators of Poetry Live since 2006.
Poetry Live has been a gathering point for the Auckland poetry community since the late 1970s. She has performed widely, including at AK07, the 2007 Ubud Readers and Writers Festival, the Dunedin Fringe Festival, the Parihaka International Peace Festival, Montana Poetry Day, the Parnell Festival of Roses, the Auckland Fringe Festival and the Whangarei Midwinter Arts Festival.
She has also collaborated with many visiting international poets, including acclaimed American slam poet Nikki Patin.
Bullet Hole Riddle. Steele Roberts Limited. 2014.
Observations from the Poetry Factory.
Back Shed Press.
2007.
Tangents: a collection of poetry. Back Shed Press. 2006.
