www.pascalepetit.co.uk

   
Photo credit Kaido Vainomaa

Welcome to the official website of poet Pascale Petit. Pascale's fifth collection What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo is published by Seren in the UK (2010) and Black Lawrence Press in the US (2011). The UK edition was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, Wales Book of the Year, and was a book of the year in the Observer. Pascale tutors poetry courses at Tate Modern and is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

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Pascale went to Shanghai 23rd Nov to 7 Dec to take part in a translation project as Visiting Poetry Fellow at Fudan University. The group consisted of George Szirtes, Yang Lian, Xiao Kaiyu and Pascale Petit and was organised by Yang Lian, Fudan University and UEA's British Centre for Literary Translation.

Hear Pascale talking with Debbie Taylor of Mslexia about poetry phobia and reading from What the Water Gave Me on Woman's Hour BBC Radio 4 on August 4th 2011http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012wzfd

Black Lawrence Press has published the US edition of What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo. It is now available to buy from their website http://www.blacklawrence.com/Petit.html

Pascale Petit is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art  2011–2012

TS Eliot Prize: Listen to Pascale Petit's reading in the Royal Festival Hall for the Shortlist Readings, on the Poetry Book Society website

Listen to two poems from TS Eliot Prize shortlisted What the Water Gave Me on BBC Radio 4's Today programme website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9361000/9361532.stm

Poetry Writing & Feedback with Pascale Petit, Writers' Centre Norwich 10am – 4pm Sunday 12 February 2012
Writers' Centre, 14 Princes Street, Norwich NR3 1AE
Price: £50 / £40 conc
This workshop for intermediate to advanced writers will help you develop your ideas and writing techniques. Using group discussion and feedback from Pascale, you and your fellow writers will use the morning to work on your creative writing alongside examples of others’ work. Before the workshop each participant will email one poem to Pascale and the group. The afternoon will be spent discussing these poems – a valuable exercise that will help you gain a range of insights into how others perceive different forms of poetry, including your own!
Please submit One poem to Sam [dot] Ruddock [at] writerscentrenorwich.org.uk by Friday 27th January; they will circulate to the whole group and Pascale in advance of the workshop.
http://www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk/poetrywritingfeedbackwithpascalepetit.aspx

Poetry from Art at Tate Modern Poetry-writing courses led by award winning poet Pascale Petit.
Spring course

Making Worlds – a poetry writing course at Chateau Ventenac in the South of France with Pascale Petit 12–18 May 2012 

  Book Now 10 places max (only 1 left)

£10 for the course. For more details click here
http://www.poetryschool.com/courses/onlinecourses.php?cid=3

     

Photo credit Derek Adams
The Big Day of Poetry at the Cramphorn Theatre, Fairfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1JG

   
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/

Yellow Mountain Poetry Festival in UK

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

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

The British Council's New Silk Road, Kazahkstan

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

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