{"id":1149,"date":"2024-11-26T09:03:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T09:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=1149"},"modified":"2025-06-17T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:18:03","slug":"julia-copus","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/julia-copus\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Copus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Copus has published four collections of poetry, including <em>The World&#8217;s Two Smallest Humans, <\/em>shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Costa Book Award. Her collection, <em>Girlhood<\/em>, was published by Faber &amp; Faber in 2019 and was the inaugural winner of the USA\u2019s Derek Walcott Prize for best poetry collection by a non-US citizen. Other awards include first prize in the UK\u2019s National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Her 2021 biography of Bloomsbury poet Charlotte Mew, <em>This Rare Spirit,<\/em> was chosen by Sir Andrew Motion as a Spectator Book of the Year and described by John Carey in the <em>Sunday Times<\/em> as &#8216;a triumph of precise scholarship and imaginative sympathy&#8217;. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Caroline Forbes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This biography of Julia Copus is taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faber.co.uk\/\">Faber &amp; Faber website.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juliacopus.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.juliacopus.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Copus has published four collections of poetry, including The World&#8217;s Two Smallest Humans, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Costa Book Award. Her collection, Girlhood, was published by Faber &amp; Faber in 2019 and was the inaugural winner of the USA\u2019s Derek Walcott Prize for best poetry collection by a non-US citizen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10697,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1149","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}