Julia Copus

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Julia Copus FRSL (born 1969) is a British poet, biographer and children's writer.

Copus was born in London and grew up with three brothers, two of whom went on to become musicians.[1] She attended The Mountbatten School, a comprehensive in Romsey, and Peter Symonds Sixth Form College in Winchester.[2] She went on to study Latin at St Mary's College, Durham.[3]

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, the pamphlet Walking in the Shadows (1994), which won the Poetry Business competition,[4] In Defence of Adultery (Bloodaxe, 2003), The World's Two Smallest Humans (Faber, 2012), shortlisted for both the Costa Book Award for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize, and Girlhood (Faber 2019), winner of the inaugural Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry.[5][6] She is known for establishing a new form in English poetry, which she has called the specular form,[7] in which the second half of the poem mirrors the first, using the same lines but in reverse order and differently punctuated.[6]

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.[8][9]

Copus was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow 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,[10] and in 2020 her collection Girlhood was awarded the inaugural Derek Walcott Prize for best collection by a non-US citizen. 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, the UK's National Poetry Competition, the Encore Award for best second novel, the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets, the T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry and the Tower Poetry Competition for 16-18 year olds, run by Christ Church, Oxford.[9]

Copus has also written four picture books: Hog in the Fog,[11] The Hog, The Shrew and the Hullabaloo (Faber 2015), The Shrew that Flew (Faber 2016) and My Bed is an Air Balloon (Faber 2018).[9]

Personal life

She lives in Blackheath, London, with her husband, Andrew Stevenson.

Publications

Poetry collections

For children

As editor

Non-fiction

For radio

  • Eenie Meenie Macka Racka, afternoon play, BBC Radio 4, September 2003
  • The Enormous Radio (based on the short story by John Cheever), afternoon play, BBC Radio 4, July 2008
  • Ghost Lines, a sequence of poems for radio, BBC Radio 3, December 2011
  • The Heart of Hidden Things, on the life and work of Charlotte Mew, BBC Radio 4, November 2019

Audio

Awards and Fellowships

References

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  5. ↑ Julia Copus wins the inaugural Derek Walcott Prize. derekwalcott.com Retrieved 12 September 2021
  6. ↑ a b The Poetry Society (Julia Copus, Apna Ghar Age Concern)
  7. ↑ Poetry Forms, Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2021
  8. ↑ Breaking the Rule' The Poetry Society Retrieved 12 September 2021
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  10. ↑ 'An Easy Passage' The Guardian, 7 October, 2010. Retrieved 12 September 2021
  11. ↑ Hog in the Fog (Faber 2014). Retrieved 12 September 2021
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