www.pascalepetit.co.uk

Photo credit Kitty Sullivan 

Welcome to the website of Pascale Petit, a French/Welsh poet living in the UK. Her second and third collections, The Huntress and The Zoo Father, were both shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and were Books of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement. Pascale has been selected as one of the Next Generation Poets. Her fourth collection The Treekeeper's Tale is published by Seren in October 2008.

Pascale was a co-founding tutor of The Poetry School and co-founder of Poetry London where she was Poetry Editor for 15 years. She has also published a prizewinning pamphlet The Wounded Deer – Fourteen poems after Frida Kahlo. "No other British poet I am aware of can match the powerful mythic imagination of Pascale Petit." Les Murray – Times Literary Supplement. For more about Pascale click here.

http://www.myspace.com/pascalepetit

News and events

Poetry Translation Workshop in Israel 28 April – 5 May
in Galilee and Tel Aviv
with Amir Or, Yael Globermann (Hebrew, Israel), Doris Kareva (Estonia), Meg Bateman (Scottish Gaelic), Pascale Petit (France/UK)
Organised by Helicon Society in Israel and Literature Across Frontiers
includes reading at Nissan Festival, Galilee, Tuesday 4pm 29 April
and reading at Helicon House, Tel Aviv, Saturday evening 3 May

Exiled Lit Cafe reading for Exiled Writers Ink 7:30pm Monday 12th May
with Vahni Capildeo and Saradha Soobrayen, hosted by Mir Mahfuz Ali
Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2 (Covent Garden tube)
£2 EWI members, £4 others
http://www.exiledwriters.co.uk

Yellow Mountain Poetry Festival in UK  June 1–8 2008
Part Two of English/Chinese Yellow Mountain (Huangshan) poetry festival
With W.N. Herbert (UK), Robert Minhinnick (UK), Pascale Petit (UK), Fiona Sampson (UK), Murray Edmond (New Zealand), Arthur Sze (USA), Odia Ofeimun (Nigeria) and Chinese poets and critics Yang Lian, Luo Ying, Wang Xiaoni, Yan Li, Zang Di, Xi Chuan, Tang Xiaodu, Chen Xianfa.
Funded by Arts Council England and Pamirs Academy China.
 
1–5 June Poet to Poet translation project at Atlantic College, St Donat's Castle, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
3 June Chinese/English reading and dialogue at Senedd (Welsh Assembly), Cardiff
6 June Chinese/English poetry writing and translation discussion, event open to public at SOAS, London, chaired by Professor Hockx head of Chinese Dept
6 June Chinese/English reading in Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London 
More details tbc

The British Council's New Silk Route, Kazahkstan

  

A new multimedia arts project aimed at the sharing of traditional and contemporary skills between artists in Bangladesh, Britain and Kazahkstan
Tobias Hill and Pascale Petit led workshops with 28 Kazakh and Uzbek writers
Almaty, Kazakhstan in January 2008. More to follow.

Anne Welsh is the poet featured on my New Poet Spotlight this month. To find out more about her and read her poem 'Fish Wives' click here.

 
Launch of Pratik at Nepal Tourism Board, Kathmandu   Machapuchere (Fishtail) Mountain on Annapurna Trek

Sadhu (holy man) at Pashupati Temple, Kathmandu   Entrance to Kali's shrine at Pashupati Temple

PRATIK A Magazine of Contemporary Writing, The Special British Poetry issue
was launched at Everest Book Shop, Babar Mahal Revisited and at Nepal Tourism Board, Kathmandu. There was widespread press coverage on Nepal television and radio and features in the newspapers.

 
Pascale Petit is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Middlesex University 2007-9 http://rlf.org.uk. She is based in the School of Arts and Education at Trent Park campus on Wednesdays and Thursdays http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/arts/

Grants for the Arts award from Arts Council England, London, and a grant from the Author's Foundation, to complete two collections, The Treekeeper's Tale (October 2008) and The Thorn Necklace – Forty poems after Frida Kahlo (2009), both to be published by Seren. The awards are to buy time and travel to Nepal for research.

Oxford University Master of Studies in Creative Writing
Pascale Petit is a part-time core course tutor in poetry for year 1 and 2 on the Master of Studies in Creative Writing course
Rewley House, I Wellington Square, Oxford
Website: http://awardbearing.conted.ox.ac.uk/creative_writing/mstcw.php

Poetry School Online: Towards a Collection
an online course for advanced writers by Pascale Petit
is available on The Poetry School website
£10 for the course. For more details click here
www.poetryschool.com 

Towards a Collection: a ten-week course at The Poetry School 2008
Tutor Pascale Petit
Fridays weekly 6.30 - 8.30pm, 18 Apr – 20 Jun
The Poetry Studio, the Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BU
Fee £95, £76 conc. www.poetryschool.com
For more about this course click here.

Extended Poetry Course at Ty Newydd North Wales, August 18-23 2008
Tutors Pascale Petit and Daljit Nagra
Guest reader Zoe Brigley
Ty Newydd, Llanystumdwy, Cricieth, Gwyneth, LL52 0LW
Bookings: Tel: 01766 522811
post@tynewydd.org
www.tynewydd.org
Ty Newydd extended courses have been designed to combine the advantages of distance-learning and face-to-face tuition. They provide the opportunity to submit work and receive helpful and specific advice from the tutors before, during and after the residential course.