Welcome to the website of UK poet Pascale Petit.
Pascale’s seventh collection Mama Amazonica, published by Bloodaxe in September 2017, is a Poetry Book Society Choice. It celebrates the beauty of the wild, whether in the mind or the natural world. It is set in a psychiatric ward and the Amazon rainforest, an asylum for animals on the brink of extinction, and draws on her travels in the Peruvian Amazon. Pascale’s sixth collection, Fauverie (Seren), was her fourth to be shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and five poems from it won the Manchester Poetry Prize. Her books have been translated into Spanish, (in Mexico), Chinese, French and Serbian. Pascale has had three collections chosen as Books of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement, Independent and Observer. In 2015 she received a Cholmondeley Award.
This is a major literary feat, and this a brilliant sequence of poems. It burns in its own supranatural light. – Tim Liardet & Vona Groarke, PBS Bulletin on Mama Amazonica
Poetry International Eco-Poetry: Poetry and Climate Change 12-1pm Sunday 15 October
Level 5 Function Room, Green side, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London
Panel discussion and readings with Anne Carson, Sjon, Karen McCarthy Woolf and Pascale Petit
St Mungo’s Mirrorball, Glasgow 7pm Thursday 16 November Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Pascale Petit will read from Mama Amazonica
Hay Festival Winter Weekend 10am Saturday 25 November
Pascale Petit reading with Menna Elfyn
Swan Ballroom, The Swan Hotel, Church Street, Hay on Wye, HR3 5DQ
Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts7.15pm Thursday 30 November
Pascale Petit reading from Mama Amazonica, with James Sheard reading from The Abandoned Settlements, both Poetry Book Society Choices
Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, Percy Building, Newcastle University,
NE1 7RU
Verve Poetry Festival Birmingham 16-18 February 2018
Pascale Petit will read from Mama Amazonica and lead a weekend workshop
Teignmouth Poetry Festival17-18 March 2018 Pascale Petit reading & competition prizegiving 6.30-8pm Saturday 17 March
Pascale will lead a poetry workshop 10-1pm Sunday 18 March
Pascale Petit is on the judging panel for the 2017 Manchester Poetry Prize for Manchester Metropolitan University, with Adam O’Riordan (chair) and Mona Arshi
who will award £10,000 to the winner for a small portfolio of poems, enter HERE
Pascale Petit is the poetry mentor for the Jerwood/Arvon Mentoring Programme 2017/18, and will mentor four poets for one year, they are: Romalyn Ante, Yvonne Reddick, Alice Hiller and Seraphima Kennedy. More information HERE
Arts Council England has awarded Pascale Petit a Grant from the Arts to finish her seventh collection Mama Amazonica, due from Bloodaxe in September 2017. The grant is to buy writing time and for a research trip in the Peruvian Amazon
Pascale Petit is Chair of the judging panel for the 2015 T S Eliot Prize alongside poets Kei Miller and Ahren Warner
Bloodaxe Books will publish Pascale Petit’s seventh poetry collection Mama Amazonica in September 2017.
Pascale Petit has a feature Omphalos in the Spring 2015 The Poetry Review
An occasional series in which poets write about a place central to their imaginative world
Pascale Petit has three new poems in the Spring 2015 Transatlantic issue of Ploughshares edited by Neil Astley https://www.pshares.org/issues/spring-2015 The poems are ‘Mama Amazonica’, ‘Jaguar Girl’ and ‘My Wolverine’, from her seventh collection in progress. You can see her read ‘My Wolverine’ on video here in a film made by Pamela Robertson-Pearce and Neil Astley, featuring seven poets from the issue
Fauverie was shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize.Pascale Petit read for the T.S. Eliot Prize Readings at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 11 January 2015 – Here’s Pascale’s reading:
‘My Father’s Wardrobe’ a poem from Fauverie is The Saturday Poem in the Guardian, Saturday 18 October 2014
‘Caracal’ a poem from Fauverie is Carol Rumens’ Poem of the Week in the Guardian, Monday 29 September 2014
