Julia Copus is a poet and biographer. She has published four collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Girlhood (Faber 2019), was winner of the inaugural Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Her awards include First Prize in the National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem for ‘An Easy Passage’.
Julia Copus is a poet and biographer. She has published four collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Girlhood (Faber 2019), was winner of the inaugural Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Her awards include First Prize in the National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem for ‘An Easy Passage’. Faber also publishes her rhyming picture books for children, which include Hog in the Fog and My Bed is an Air Balloon. In 2018, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew is her first biography.
