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Girlhood
- Author
- Julia Copus
- Narrator
- Andrew Stevenson, Julia Copus
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 19 March 2019
- Run Time
- 1 hour 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
WINNER OF THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRY
Julia 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 hidden history: from within a professor's office and a deserted department store; from kitchens, bedrooms, hallways and upstairs windows; through changing weathers, fidgety shadows and the witching hour.
Girlhood concludes with a sequence set in a psychiatric hospital that reimagines Jacques Lacan's treatment of his most famous case study, Marguerite Pantaine. This dramatic meeting of minds has us questioning who is the more delusional - doctor or patient: like other victims in this exhilarating new collection, Marguerite may initially appear vanquished, but a closer look reveals how little of herself she has really surrendered.
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Details
- Author
- Julia Copus
- Narrator
- Andrew Stevenson, Julia Copus
- Duration
- 1 hour 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 March 2019
- ISBN
- 9780571351084
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry by individual poets
Synopsis
WINNER OF THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYIn her fourth collection, Julia Copus explores the shifting balance of power between dangerous and destructive forces and things on the verge of becoming. Her deft and seductive poems reanimate lost figures and places from private moments and recast them in the open arena of the page. Reading this collection, one has the sense of encountering a series of filmic installations arranged by episode in a gallery. Censored or disparaged voices speak out from the secluded spaces of a professor's office, a deserted department store; from kitchens, bedrooms, hallways and upstairs windows; the witching hour and the psychiatric ward. The book concludes with a series of meetings between a female patient, Marguerite, and her bullying psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. But Lacan's domination of his patient is illusory: like other victims in this exciting new collection, she may appear vanquished but a closer look reveals how little of herself she has really surrendered.
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