Iulia David
Iulia David is a Romanian-born London-based poet who graduated from the MA in Performance and Culture at Goldsmiths University and the MA in Writing Poetry at the Poetry School and Newcastle University.
Her poems appear, amongst others, in Prototype (5), Propel Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review, The Rialto, Magma, The Scores.
Her debut pamphlet, Blueprint, was published in 2022 by Green Bottle Press. She is currently working on her first full-length collection.
Published Works
Breathless
Prototype (5) / Summer 2023
I Dreamed I Fell in Love with a Cheese Truck Driver
Prototype (5) / Summer 2023
Foreign Bodies
Propel Magazine, Issue 4 / Spring 2023
Blueprint
Ambit, Issue 244 / Summer 2021
Dear Marie Kondo I’m Sorry But I’ve Already Made It Glorious
The Scores, Issue 8 / Summer 2020
Static
The Scores, Issue 8 / Summer 2020
Books
Available to order from Green Bottle Press
Blueprint
“Iulia David’s poetry crackles and brims with life. Not just liveliness but life, its chemical actions, its subterranean logic, its pressure and need for what’s next. Once the poem is underway the lines don’t come from the poet who began it, but stream from a soul within, beneath, moving and mutating as it rides the light and dark. Structural and imaginative truth are there of course, but the forces here are cellular, making work that feels both timeless and passing-as-you-breathe. A brilliant debut from a vital new voice.” – Glyn Maxwell
“Iulia David’s poems are like those intricate puzzle boxes that can only be opened through a series of delicate operations – they yield treasures at their core. What David conjures is that strange hinterland between experience and memory, childhood and the terrible passage of time – and finds her own language to navigate it. Her poems are beautiful haunted spaces, both comforting and unsettling. Hers is a startling new voice.” – Tamar Yoseloff
Danne Jobin (Ambit)
Meandering, surprising, and layered, Iulia David’s first pamphlet, Blueprint, is a map with not-so-straight lines. The reader follows trails from one place back to the other, gathering memories and impressions from line to image to word.
Appearances
Verve Poetry Festival
