Julia Copus

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Julia Copus (born 16 July 1969 in London) is a British poet and radio dramatist.[1][2] She was the winner of the 2002 National Poetry Competition.[3]

[edit] Career

Copus' books of poetry include The Shuttered Eye (1995), which won her an Eric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and In Defence of Adultery (2003).[4] Both collections are Poetry 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 a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at University of Exeter in 2005 and 2006.

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Poetry Society (Julia Copus, Apna Ghar Age Concern)
  2. ^ The Poetry Society (Julia Copus Profile)
  3. ^ The Poetry Society (Julia Copus Profile)
  4. ^ The Poetry Society (Julia Copus, Apna Ghar Age Concern)

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