Julie has worked as Writer in Residence for a number of organisations,
including ICI, Lubrizol, Holton Lee, East Midlands Shape, MIND and Ithaca. Her poetry has been published widely in magazines and anthologies.
Publications include:
Fresher Than Green, Brighter than Orange (Survivors Press £2.95)
Under the Asylum Tree (Survivors Press £7.95)
We Have Come Through (Bloodaxe Books £8.95)
Irish Lifelines an anthology of poetry by Irish women in London edited by Eamer O'Keeffe (London Irish Women's Centre £5).
"Julie McNamara is an amazing artist, a fantastic teller of tales and singer of songs. She took control as soon as she stepped onstage in a stunning performance. Julie does not just play characters on stage, she becomes them, delivering stories and poems with a power and intimacy which is daunting. Her greatest strengths are twofold, the first is the fact that she is telling the truth and from experience lived or observed and the second is her wonderful voice. A wonderful performance from a talented and extraordinary lady."
MAGNUM ARTS - The Citadel, St. Helens
The Prozac Princess
They've worried my mind till I'm weary
drowned me in drugs to despair
yes I'm on the caring circus
with the services who care
watch me soft-shoe-shuffle
on the Diazepam dazzle dance daze
where all the world's a forget-me-fog
and my whole life's just a phase
Just call me the Prozac Princess
while I rattle round and round
on the magical medical mystery tour
I'm on the miracle cure they've found
They tell me I'll feel much better
Dothiepin's the dope
Britain's sunshine smarty
the quack quack quack's new hope
But you can't bomb me into oblivion
or bleed these brain cells dry
'cause this zombie's into rebellion
this baby's gonna fly
So I've flushed the phenos down the toilet
gave the diazepam to the dog
buried the barbiturates in the garden
I'm going to get myself a job
think I'll be a chemist !)
Performance Poetry tapes - Prozac Princess FREE.
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