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WELCOME TO PASCALE PETIT'S WEBSITE


Photo credit Kitty Sullivan 

Welcome to the website of Pascale Petit, a French/Welsh poet living in the UK. Her fourth collection The Treekeeper's Tale was published by Seren in November 2008. 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. A fifth collection What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida Kahlo will be published in May 2010. Pascale was selected as one of the Next Generation Poets and teaches creative writing in the galleries at Tate Modern.  "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.

Follow Pascale's new blog: http://www.pascalepetit.blogspot.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pascalepoet/
My Space:
http://www.myspace.com/pascalepetit
Facebook profile: http://profile.to/pascalepetit/
YouTube channel: http://uk.youtube.com/user/pascalepetit


News and events

NOW BOOKING
Poetry from Art
at Tate Modern – three creative writing courses in the galleries will be led by Pascale Petit and start 19th October 2009.
Each six-week term is independent of the other terms. Participants can take one, two or all three courses. The course will include a public reading, publication on the Tate Modern website and a Tate pamphlet publication. Terms are 19 Oct to 23 Nov 2009, 22 Feb to 29 Mar and 7 June to 12 July 2010.
18.45 – 20.15 every Monday evening in the galleries. (For more details click here).
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/coursesworkshops/poetryfromart.htm


Freeing the Imagination – a poetry writing course at Chateau Ventenac in the South of France with Pascale Petit 11–17 October 2009
10% off early booking discount for July!

Bookings now open
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This course will encourage you to explore what is important to you as a poet and offer inspiration for new directions. There will be a maximum of ten participants. For more details click here.
http://www.chateauventenac.com/courses/poetry/pascalepetit.html

For more details please either phone  ++44 (0) 7773 206344  or 0033 671 894990


Review of The Treekeeper's Tale on Eyewear by Vicky Paine http://toddswift.blogspot.com/


Preview of What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida Kahlo is up on Daniela Falini's Frida Kahlo website: http://www.fridakahlo.it/


Agenda magazine the Welsh Issue includes an essay 'Painting, Poetry, Music: The Images of Pascale Petit', two poems from What the Water Gave Me and my translation of Yang Lian's  poem 'The Valley and the End: A Story' together with my essay on translating it. http://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/


Fado Poetry Pascale Petit is translating three poems from Portuguese for an anthology of Fado poetry edited by Mimi Khalvati, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation and due to be published late 2009/early 2010


International Literary Quarterly publishes five new poems from Pascale Petit's forthcoming collection What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida Kahlo
To read the poems go to http://www.interlitq.org/issue6/pascale_petit/job.php
 

The Guardian's Saturday Poem is 'Salmon' from The Treekeeper's Tale
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/06/saturday-poem-pascale-petit



Two poems from The Treekeeper's Tale are on YouTube
'Chandelier-Tree'
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MQKSQOrdwjc and
'The Second Husband'
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c22tIfCY5Fo


Launch of latest collection The Treekeeper's Tale at Foyles
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To buy the book online go to http://www.seren-books.com/product-search/p/2111/ or phone 01656 663018


West Cork Literary Festival, Ireland, Pascale Petit Morning Reading 11am Thursday 9 July
Bantry Bookshop, Marino Street, Bantry,
Co. Cork, Ireland
admission free
Tel: + 353 (0) 27 55987
http://www.westcorkliteraryfestival.ie/


Brand Shorts for 2009 London Literature Festival, South Bank Centre 7pm Sunday 12 July
Blue Room, Spirit Level, Royal Festival Hall,
South Bank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
Brand Shorts welcomes you to an exciting night of dark, pertinent and witty short plays and performance prose and poetry, from some of the sharpest writers around, including Laura Wade, Naomi Wallace, Yang Lian, Michael Bhim, Joelle Taylor, Heidi James and Pascale Petit. Then stick around for an after show party launching the new issue.
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/calendar/productions/brand-shorts-47427  or phone: 0871 663 2500


Shoreditch Festival poetry reading 5.30 – 6.30pm Saturday 18 July
'Around the Word in Shoreditch' Literature Marquee, Shoreditch Park, New North Road, London N1
Readers Mimi Khalvati, Jacqueline Gabbitas and Pascale Petit
Festival theme is Earthly Delights entry free
http://www.shoreditchfestival.org.uk


Bristol Poetry Festival Arnolfini 4pm Sunday 13 September
Readers are Jeannie Ellin, Richard Carter, Paul Scott and Pascale Petit
The Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA
info@poetrycan.co.uk
http://www.poetrycan.co.uk  



King's Lynn Poetry Festival 25–27 September 2009
Pascale Petit is reading
Thoresby College, King's Lynn riverside, Norfolk

Tickets: enquiries@lynnlitfests.com Tel: 01553 691661
http://www.lynnlitfests.com


Warwick Words Festival Morning Coffee with Pascale Petit 10.30–11.30am Sunday 4 October 2009
Poetry readings, coffee, questions and book signings
Kozi Bar in Warwick
http://www.warwickwords.co.uk


Sha'ar International Poetry Festival 29–31 October 2009 Tel Aviv and Jaffa, Israel
Pascale Petit is reading
Festival theme is Poetry in Conflict

more details tba


21st Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 6-8 November 2009
Pascale Petit will be reading in the Jubilee Hall and taking part in four other events
more details tba
http://www.thepoetrytrust.org



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
www.poetryschool.com



Past events


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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A new multimedia arts project aimed at the sharing of traditional and contemporary skills. Tobias Hill and Pascale Petit led workshops with 28 Kazakh and Uzbek writers Almaty, Kazakhstan.


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

PRATIK The Special British Poetry issue was launched at Everest Book Shop, Babar Mahal Revisited and at Nepal Tourism Board, Kathmandu.


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 (June 2010), both published by Seren. The awards are to buy time and travel to Nepal for research.









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