Julia Copus
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Julia Copus (born 16 July 1969 in London) is a British poet and radio dramatist. Her 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). 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 Exeter University in 2005/06.
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