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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. Follow Pascale Petit's blog News and events 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˙sLaunch 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 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 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
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 Poetry School Online: Towards a Collection Selected Past Events  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   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
The British Council's New Silk Road, Kazahkstan
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 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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