Girlhood Audiobook In A Card

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER. DISPATCHING 1ST SEPTEMBER

Girlhood by Julia Copus is available as an Audiobook in a Card – a beautiful greeting card that unlocks the complete audiobook, creating a thoughtful literary gift for poetry lovers and audiobook fans alike.

About the book: 
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.

Perfect for: birthdays, birthdays, Christmas, cat lover gifts, family gifts, thank you gifts
birthdays, Mother's Day, International Women's Day, poetry gifts, graduation

A thoughtful gift for: poetry lovers, mothers, daughters, teachers, students, contemporary poetry readers

Categories: contemporary poetry, women's writing, feminist literature, literary gifts, British poetry

Narrator: 
Andrew Stevenson
Length: 1 hr and 13 mins

AVAILABLE IN THE UK ONLY