Oasis Café Theatre

‘Julie has a mind like a melting pot, bubbling with ideas for literary link ups… her career as a freelance poet includes a hectic teaching schedule, and she leaps across the city from school to university, inspiring students in her poetry workshops and creative writing classes.  She loves off timetable sessions where poetry, song, dance and lyrics come together…  Her newly-launched café-theatre, Oasis, at the Orange Studio in Cannon Street, provides a platform for writers, musicians and artists – a place where they can eat, drink, talk, chat and share ideas.’  (The Journal, 2003)

 

Wasted Lives

Boden is held in awe by local poets after the astonishing success of her pamphlet Wasted Lives, written while she was Birmingham’s Poet Laureate.  Its outspoken anti-war message struck a nerve,, resulting in an immense circulation of over 10,000 copies, many of them pirated versions made independently by churches and protest groups for distribution at demonstrations. (Jon Morley, Avocado Magazine, 2004)

 

 

Through the Eye of a Crow

Highlights for early October include Julie Boden’s new collection of poetry, Through the Eye of a Crow, which receives an outing at the Orange Studio.  As the outgoing Poet Laureate she is well known for her strong, direct and magical poetry and the evening is performed with live music.  (What’s On, Sept 2003)

A third collection is shaping up, entitled, ‘Through the Eye of a Crow.’ This latest has its roots in dreams she had followed by a crow banging on her window on seven consecutive mornings.  Once she wrote about the experience, it stopped happening.  It is yet another of the slightly other worldly coincidences that seem to happen to her.’ (The Journal, 2003)