In Defence of Adultery by Julia Copus
The poems in Julia Copus's second collection are imbued with a wry logic and spellbinding resonance. They infuse us with primal stirrings as we read them, sharing in her unease and anxiety but also enlivened by a thrilling sense of personal recognition. They trace the paths of lives and relationships through a world carved out by the choices we make. At the same time, they summon up another world beneath our ever-pressing turmoil of love and family relationships, a parallel world made up of what might have been, as well as what might still be. These strong and vital poems hold science and art, time and timelessness in a tense balance. Dense, elliptical, and suggestive, they throw down a challenge to readers, urging us to be constantly on the move rather than stand still and stagnate.
Julia Copus's poems view some of the most turbulent moments in life through a sharp, clear lens: mature, uncomfortably honest, uncompromising-- Maura Dooley
Copus is a poet of relationships, meditating in carefully crafted poems upon their trivial details and their grand designs with equal authority, and offering some important insights into how we make our ways through what Stephen Hawking calls the dark stuff of our universe. -- John Sears * PopMatters *
Copus is a poet of relationships, meditating in carefully crafted poems upon their trivial details and their grand designs with equal authority, and offering some important insights into how we make our ways through what Stephen Hawking calls the dark stuff of our universe. -- John Sears * PopMatters *
Julia Copus is a poet and radio dramatist. Her latest collection The World's Two Smallest Humans (Faber) was shortlisted for both the 2012 T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa poetry prize. Her previous collections, The Shuttered Eye and In Defence of Adultery, were PBS Recommendations. She won First Prize in the National Poetry Competition (2002) and the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (2010). In 2011, her sequence of poems about IVF, 'Ghost', was adapted as a BBC Radio 3 play entitled Ghost Lines. She is a Lector for the Royal Literary Fund, and in 2008 was made an Honorary Fellow at the University of Exeter.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852246075 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852246073 |
| Title | In Defence of Adultery |
| Author | Julia Copus |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-02-27 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
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