Girlhood by Julia Copus Terms and Conditions These lines understand their power

These lines understand their power to manipulate: 'this is a poem about my mouth / intended to draw attention / to my mouth'

describing in concentric circles “the long now of this blazing day

colloquialism and baroque

Tan Raptures is a series of verse-missives from the frontline of the war against the poor and its spirit-stripping weapons of food banks

finding itself between creeks and cracks

Girlhood by Julia Copus Terms and Conditions These lines understand their powerJulia 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