Julia Copus is a British poet, biographer, and children’s author. Her books of poetry include The Shuttered Eye, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The World’s Two Smallest Humans was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. She has also written four picture books, including The Shrew and the Hullabaloo.
‘An Easy Passage’ explores the shift from youth to adulthood, symbolized by a girl’s daring climb, under the gaze of her friend.
Once she is halfway up there, crouched in her bikini
on the porch roof of her family's house, trembling,
she knows that the one thing she must not do is to think
of the narrow windowsill, the sharp
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