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Julia copus performs at the t s eliot prize readings 2012
Julia Copus (born 1969 in London) is a British poet and children's writer. Her agent is Georgina Capel.
Contents
- Julia copus performs at the t s eliot prize readings 2012
- Julia copus s a short history of desire
- Career
- Personal life
- Poetry collections
- For children
- Non fiction
- For radio
- Audio
- Awards
- References
Julia copus s a short history of desire
Career
Copus' books of poetry include The Shuttered Eye (Bloodaxe, 1995), which won her an Eric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, In Defence of Adultery (Bloodaxe, 2003) and The World's Two Smallest Humans (Faber, 2012), shortlisted for both the Costa Book Awards (poetry category) and the T.S. Eliot Prize. All three collections are Poetry Book Society Recommendations. She is known for establishing a new form in English poetry, which she has called the specular form, in which the second half of the poem mirrors the first, using the same lines but in reverse order and differently punctuated.
Eenie Meenie Macka Racka (an original 45-minute play for radio) was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September, 2003, having been commissioned after Copus won the BBC's Alfred Bradley Bursary Award for Best New Radio Playwright in 2002. In the same year she won First Prize in the National Poetry Competition with 'Breaking the Rule'.
In 2003, Copus collaborated with sculptor Stephen Broadbent to produce a poem inscribed on a bronze sculpture in Fleming Square, Blackburn. She was awarded a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at the University of Exeter in 2005, 2006 and 2007, and the following year was made an RLF Advisory Fellow and awarded an Honorary Fellowship at the University of Exeter. In 2010, she won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem for 'An Easy Passage'. She has served on the judging panel for a number of literary prizes, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, the Costa Book Award, Encore Award and T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry.
A pocket-sized writing guide for undergraduates called Brilliant Writing Tips for Students was published by Palgrave Macmillan in July 2009.
A sequence of poems for radio, Ghost Lines, based on a couple's experience of IVF treatment and produced by John Taylor of Fiction Factory, was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in December 2011 and shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.
Copus has also written three picture books: Hog in the Fog (Faber 2014), The Hog, the Shrew and the Hullabaloo (Faber 2015) and The Shrew that Flew (Faber 2016).
Her grandfather is the painter Cecil Bailey, a central member of the Borough Bottega group who studied under David Bomberg.
Personal life
She lives in Curry Mallet, with her husband, Andrew Stevenson.