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WELCOME TO PASCALE PETIT'S WEBSITE


Photo credit Jemimah Kuhfeld

Welcome to the website of Pascale Petit. Her fifth collection What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida Kahlo is published in May 2010. She has had two collections shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and chosen as Books of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement and Independent. Pascale was selected by the Poetry Book Society as one of the Next Generation Poets and teaches poetry courses in the galleries at Tate Modern. For more about Pascale click here.

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News and events

To see Pascale read a poem from What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida Kahlo please click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaYMhVqh6_I&feature=player_embedded



Ruth Padel reviews What the Water Gave Me in The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/12/what-water-gave-me-petit




Poems from What the Water Gave Me now recorded on PoetCasting http://www.poetcasting.co.uk/?p=196
'What the Water Gave Me (VI)', 'The Little Deer', 'Remembrance of an Open Wound'
together with 'The Strait-Jackets', and 'Self-Portrait with Fire Ants' from The Zoo Father




'The Bus', a poem from What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida Kahlo, is The Guardian's Saturday Poem
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/29/pascale-petit-saturday-poem-bus




Pascale Petit, Jacqueline Gabbitas, Meryl Pugh
reading at Walthamstow Library 7.30pm Wednesday 15 September 2010
Reference Room, 1st Floor, Walthamstow Library, High Street, Walthamstow, London E17 3JN
Nearest tube Walthamstow Central (2 minutes away)
Presented by the Waltham Forest Poetry Society Stanza
Tickets £3 – buy on the door – includes a glass of wine



Tornado by Francis Al˙s
Launch of Poetry from Art at Tate Modern 6.45–9pm Saturday 25 September 2010

Tate Modern has published a pamphlet of poems by the poets on the Poetry from Art summer course, edited by Pascale Petit
There will be a public reading to launch the publication, free entry, wine served.
East Room, Level 7, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/talksdiscussions/22322.htm



Birmingham Book Festival 6.45 – 8.45 Thursday 7 October 2010

Celebrating National Poetry Day: Birmingham’s New Poet Laureate Inauguration
Guest Poet Pascale Petit

The Library Theatre, Birmingham Central Library, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3HQ.  
Tickets:FREE  Tickets are free but please reserve a place with the box office. 
Box Office: 0121 303 2323  

http://www.birminghambookfestival.org




Starting to Write
course at
The Hurst, Arvon Foundation  tutors Courttia Newland and Pascale Petit 11–16 October 2010
The Hurst, Clunton, Craven Arms, Shropshire, SY7 0JA
Tel: 01588 640658 Email: thehurst@arvonfoundation.org
http://www.arvonfoundation.org/pc546.html



Manchester Literature Festival 1-2pm Tuesday 19 October
Pascale Petit will give an illustrated reading from What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida Kahlo
Lecture Theatre, Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL
Tickets: £5/£3 concessions, book on 0843 208 0500 or
http://www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/19th-october/pascale-petit



Off the Shelf Festival Sheffield 7–8pm Thursday 21 October
Pascale Petit will give an illustrated reading from What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida Kahlo
The Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1
http://www.offtheshelf.org.uk
offtheshelf@sheffield.gov.uk



Durham Book Festival  1.30-2.30pm Sunday 24 October
On Life, Death and Mutability: Jo Shapcott, Pascale Petit and Anna Woodford
Town Hall, Durham
Tickets £6/£4
http://www.bookfestival.org.uk



     Autumn course – NOW OPEN FOR BOOKINGS

Poetry from Art at Tate Modern – creative writing courses in the galleries led by Pascale Petit
25 Oct 2010 to 11 July 2011. 18.45 – 20.15 every Monday evening in the galleries. (For more details of last year's course click here)
 http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/coursesworkshops/22230.htm
A selection of poems by poets who attended the 2010 spring term is published on the Tate Modern website
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/coursesworkshops/19443.htm



First Thursdays at Chapter, Cardiff, Thursday 4 November 2010
Pascale Petit reading with John Haynes

Market Road, Canton, Cardiff CF5 1QE
More info from Seren: victoriahumphreys@seren-books.com
01656 663018
http://www.serenbooks.com



Towards a Collection course, tutor Pascale Petit for The Poetry School 6.45 - 8.45pm Friday evenings 11 Feb to 18 March 2011
venue: The Poetry School, 81 Lambeth Walk, London Se11 6DX
http://www.poetryschool.com Phone 0207 582 1679 email: administration@poetryschool.com




Making Worlds – a poetry writing course at Chateau Ventenac in the South of France with Pascale Petit 15–21 May 2011 

 
For more details click here.
http://www.chateauventenac.com/writingcourses/pascalepetit.html
Email julia@chateauventenac.com or phone Julia in the Languedoc:  ++44 (0) 7773 206344  or 0033 671 894990



Pascale Petit is mentoring the poet Mahfuz Mir Ali for The Complete Works 2008 – 2010
a national two year development programme for advanced Black and Asian poets. For further details see http://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/index.php?id=projects&text=2081


Poetry School Online: Towards a Collection
an online course
by Pascale Petit for advanced poets preparing a first collection
is available on The Poetry School website
£10 for the course. For more details click here

http://www.poetryschool.com/courses/onlinecourses.php?cid=3


Selected Past Events

   
                                                                                                       Photo credit Dafna Kaplan
Sha'ar International Poetry Festival 29–31 October 2009
Israel Poetry from the Conflict Zone
at The Arabic-Hebrew Theatre, Jaffa
http://www.helicon.org.il/






23 November 2009 Poetry from Art: a public reading by poets on the autumn Tate Modern course

25 poets worked in the magical setting of Tate Modern, when the galleries were quiet and closed to the public. Led by Pascale Petit, they wrote poems in response to works from the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions

Level 4,
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/talksdiscussions/20562.htm



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 Photo credit Peter Everard Smith     
21st Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 6 - 8 November 2009
Workshop,
Reading, Blind Criticism, Short Take: Love & Death,
Discussion: The Female Poem Do women genuinely write different poems from men and if so, what could be said to characterise the ‘female' poem?
http://www.thepoetrytrust.org


Yellow Mountain Poetry Festival in UK 2008

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Poetry of Yellow Mountain – Purcell Room, South Bank Centre
Part Two of English/Chinese Yellow Mountain (Huangshan) poetry festival

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Part One of Yellow Mountain festival in Huangshan, Anhui Province, China


The British Council's New Silk Road, Kazahkstan

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Tobias Hill and Pascale Petit led workshops with 28 Kazakh and Uzbek writers Almaty, Kazakhstan in January 2008


From Kathmandu: Pratik the Special Contemporary British Poetry issue guest edited by Pascale Petit editor Yuyutsu R D Sharma
The Special British Poetry issue features new poems by 26 leading UK poets including Robin Robertson, Sean O’Brien, Fiona Sampson, Alice Oswald, Les Murray, George Szirtes, John Kinsella, Nick Laird and W.N. Herbert.

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


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 (November 2008) and What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida Kahlo (May 2010), both published by Seren.









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