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| name = Julia Copus | image = Julia Copus.jpg | image_size = | caption = Julia Copus,2007 | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1969}} | birth_place = London | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Poet | language = | nationality = United Kingdom | residence = | citizenship = | education = Durham University | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | awards = Eric Gregory Award | website = [https://www.juliacopus.com/ Official website] }} Julia Copus FRSL (born 1969) is a British poet, radio dramatist and children's writer. BiographyJulia Copus was born in London in 1969. She studied Latin at Durham University.[1] 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.[2] 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.[2] 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'.[3]Copus 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 [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/07/forward-prize-single-poem-julia-copus '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.[3] Copus has also written four picture books: [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Harry-Lil-Julia-Copus/dp/0571307213 Hog in the Fog] (Faber 2014), The Hog, The Shrew and the Hullabaloo (Faber 2015), The Shrew that Flew (Faber 2016) and My Bed is an Air Balloon (Faber 2018).[3] Personal lifeShe lives in Curry Mallet, with her husband, Andrew Stevenson. PublicationsPoetry collections
For children
Non-fiction
For radio
Audio
Selected awards
References1. ^{{cite web |title=Julia Copus b 1969 |url=https://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/julia-copus |website=Poetry Archive |accessdate=11 September 2018}} 2. ^1 The Poetry Society (Julia Copus, Apna Ghar Age Concern) 3. ^1 2 {{cite web |title=Julia Copus |url=https://www.poemhunter.com/julia-copus/biography/ |website=Poem Hunter |accessdate=11 September 2018}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/23/ts-eliot-prize-poetry-shortlist |title=TS Eliot prize for poetry announces 'fresh, bold' shortlist |work=The Guardian |author=Alison Flood |date=23 October 2012 |accessdate=23 October 2012}} External links
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