www.pascalepetit.co.uk

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

NOW BOOKING

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
 
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

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

 

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

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

Yellow Mountain Poetry Festival in UK 2008

  
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

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.

 
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.