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Symphony Hall Poet in Residence

The Symphony Hall now has its own poet – Julie Boden. Her challenge is to stimulate and to simply entertain the thousands of people who are involved in the internationally-renowned venue. The task would leave many creative people lost for words. For Julie it has been a source of inspiration. It was little more than 48 hours since Julie Boden had held an  audience captive at Symphony Hall while some of her latest words and thoughts had tumbled out in perfect timing. The occasion had been the latest in a Playing with Words event…’  (Annie Roberts, Select Living magazine)

‘Words of Love from Poet in Residence’ – Terry Grimley meets Symphony Hall’s new Poet in Residence. ‘Julie Boden admits that she nearly fell off her chair when she heard that her first assignment as poet-in-residence at Symphony Hall was for an event called, The Amorous Organ…’  (Terry Grimley, Birmingham Post)

Birmingham Poet Laureate

Birmingham Poet Laureate Julie Boden has already touched many hearts with her new poem penned to coincide with the city’s Holocaust Memorial Day. Julie recited her extremely moving anti-war work, Wasted Lives, at the Council House at the end of January, at King Edward’s School in Edgbaston and at the launch of Platform 5, a new city centre performance space for poets and storytellers. She chose to highlight genocide across the world in her piece, which is probably her most ambitious yet. People who have read or heard Wasted Lives have made comparisons with the work of Auden and T S Eliot but it is clear it has come straight from the heart. (Sutton News, 2003)