Julia Allen as Lulu in the Frank Wedekind play, directed by Peter Falkenberg for the Free Theatre, Christchurch, May 1986.
In July 2003 the late John O’Connor, an essential figure in the Cantabrian poetry scene in which Julia Allen was prominent, suggested that:
the work of a number of otherwise diverse and nationally and/or internationally linked poets shared enough of the following characteristics to identify their work as coming from Christchurch:
'in a reasonably graceful celluloid manner'
The measured movement of Julia Allen
In July 2003 the late John O’Connor, an essential figure in the Cantabrian poetry scene in which Julia Allen was prominent, suggested that:
the work of a number of otherwise diverse and nationally and/or internationally linked poets shared enough of the following characteristics to identify their work as coming from Christchurch: