Julia Copus (Royaume-Uni) |
La Poésie en ce temps Qui nous sommes Une asbl, pour quoi faire ? L'équipe 31 mars - 2 avril 2017 15-17 avril 2016 24-26 avril 2015 25-27 avril 2014 12-14 avril 2013 20-22 avril 2012 01-03 avril 2011 23-25 avril 2010 24-26 avril 2009 11 mars 2009 18-20 avril 2008 |
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Biographie |
Julia Copus is a poet and children’s writer. She was born in London and now lives with her husband in Somerset. Her three collections of poetry, The Shuttered Eye (1995), In Defence of Adultery (2003), and The World's Two Smallest Humans (2012) are all Poetry Book Society Recommendations. The first of these was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) and the latest was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Award. In 2003, her radio play Eenie Meenie Macka Racka was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 and won the 2002 BBC Alfred Bradley Bursary Award. Her other literary awards include First Prize in the National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (2010). In 2012, she was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for Ghost Lines, a cycle of radio poems following the journey of a couple undergoing IVF treatment. This year sees the publication of Julia’s second picture book for children, The Hog, the Shrew and the Hullabaloo (Faber, 2015). She is co-director of the national Reading Round scheme for the Royal Literary Fund, and in 2008 was made an Honorary Fellow at the University of Exeter. |
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Poème |
Inkling Last night I sensed a taking root under the bonecage of my heart, a stirring, shifting; something not quite of a breath or heartbeat’s weight. It was the inkling of a soul. Now I shall have no peace at all till he’s caught and fastened, nested in the cradle of my pelvic bone. Then, in the coracle of my womb, I’ll carry him gently, every inch home though the hour is late in the lengthening light to the crook of my arm, the bay’s curved shore, water-lapped, twilit, secure. |
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