- Julia Copus
Julia Copus (born
16 July 1969 inLondon ) is a Britishpoet and radio dramatist. [ [http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/archives/places/apnaghar/ The Poetry Society (Julia Copus, Apna Ghar Age Concern) ] ] [ [http://poetrysociety.org.uk/content/publications/poetrynews/pn2003/jcprofile/ The Poetry Society (Julia Copus Profile) ] ] She was the winner of the 2002 National Poetry Competition. [ [http://poetrysociety.org.uk/content/publications/poetrynews/pn2003/jcprofile/ The Poetry Society (Julia Copus Profile) ] ]Career
Copus' books of
poetry include "The Shuttered Eye" (1995), which won her anEric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for theForward Prize for Best First Collection, and "In Defence of Adultery" (2003). [ [http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/archives/places/apnaghar/ The Poetry Society (Julia Copus, Apna Ghar Age Concern) ] ] Both collections arePoetry Book Society Recommendations. In 1997, she was one of five young British poets to take part in the UK New Blood Tour, organised by Bloodaxe Books; the other four poets were Roddy Lumsden,Jane Holland , Tracey Herd and Eleanor Brown."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 she won the BBC's Alfred Bradley Bursary Award for New Playwrights in 2002. In the same year she won First Prize in the National Poetry Competition with "Breaking the Rule".In 2001, she received writing awards from the
Arts Council of England and the Authors’ Foundation, and the following year was one of six writers awarded a BBC/Gulbenkian Foundation writer’s bursary. In 2003, she collaborated with sculptor Stephen Broadbent to produce a poem inscribed on a bronze bench and sculpture in Fleming Square,Blackburn .In the summer of 2004, Julia Copus was commissioned to write a
poem for St. Dunstan's, Brighton, as part of the Architexts project, administered by David Kendall for the Arts Council. She was awarded aRoyal Literary Fund Fellowship atUniversity of Exeter in 2005 and 2006.References
External links
* [http://juliacopus.co.uk/ Official Website of Julia Copus]
* [http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Julia%20Copus.htm Interview with Julia Copus]
* [http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/i/in-defence-of-adultery.shtml Book Review]
* [http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/profile.cfm?fellow=132&menu=2 Julia Copus biography]
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