Girlhood by Julia Copus Picador A work of captivation and

A work of captivation and correction

the far-flung and the near-at-hand

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

‘These poems move in different directions

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Girlhood by Julia Copus Picador A work of captivation andJulia 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