Girlhood by Julia Copus Picador Now he has assembled this

Now he has assembled this equally lively companion anthology for all those readers who’ve wanted more poems that touch the heart

Blood-boltered

In Denmark she sits beside Tollund Man who seems to be about to wake from a dream

Four of Pascale Petit's previous six collections have been shortlisted for the T

a sequence of mirror poems contemplating the Jewishness of the poet’s father

Girlhood by Julia Copus Picador Now he has assembled thisJulia Copus's new collection, Girlhood, is a book of transgressed boundaries and seductive veneers. Restlessly inquisitive, it exposes the shifting power balance between things on the verge of becoming and the forces that threaten to destroy them. Reading these poems, we have the sense of encountering a series of filmic installations arranged by episode in a gallery. Lost, censored or disparaged voices speak out from secluded spaces and moments of