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Welcome to the website of Pascale Petit, a French/Welsh poet living in the UK. Her fifth collection What the Water Gave Me Poems after Frida Kahlo is published in May 2010. The Treekeeper's Tale was published by Seren in 2008. 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 as one of the Next Generation Poets and teaches creative writing in the galleries at Tate Modern. For more about Pascale click here. Follow Pascale Petit's blog News and events Cover of my fifth poetry collection What the Water Gave Me Poems after Frida Kahlo, published by Seren this May. Pre-order from Seren
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 1621 May 2010 The Female Poem does it exist? podcast from the Aldeburgh Festival To mark International Women's Day Monday 8th March 2010 The Poetry Trust have produced a new podcast on The Female Poem, the lively discussion chaired by Jo Shapcott, with Maureen Duffy, Annie Freud and Pascale Petit at the Aldeburgh Festival last November. http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive Kent & Sussex Poetry Society reading Tuesday 16 March  Poetry On the Border Les Murray & Pascale Petit Chepstow 7.30pm Saturday 1st May 2010 The Drill Hall, Lower Church St, Chepstow NP16 5HJ info@poetryontheborder.org http://www.poetryontheborder.org Tel: 01291 625011 Tickets £12.00 (£10 concessions) The Guardian Hay Festival 2 June Pascale Petit will read from What the Water Gave Me Poems after Frida Kahlo with a slideshow of the paintings. http://www.hayfestival.com Lancaster Litfest Summer Reading 7.45pm Wednesday 23 June Pascale Petit reads from What the Water Gave Me Poems after Frida Kahlo with a slideshow of the paintings The Storey, Auditorium, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster LA1 1TH To book phone Box Office 01524 582394 or book online https://express.iristickets.co.uk/k?litfest http://www.litfest.org/Festival-and-Events/Pascale-Petit/65.html Tickets £5 (3.50 concessions) Ledbury Festival 2010 reading Saturday 3 July Pascale Petit reads from What the Water Gave Me Poems after Frida Kahlo with a slideshow of the paintings and will also lead a workshop on poetry from art on Sunday morning 4 July http://www.poetry-festival.com The Speaking Eye: Poetry & Visual Art Ty Newydd course, North Wales, tutors George Szirtes and Pascale Petit August 16 21 2010 This course will use various forms of visual art as stimuli for writing. Guest reader is TS Eliot Prize winner Philip Gross. post@tynewydd.org Tel: 01766 522811 http://www.tynewydd.org/english/courses%202010/PoetryPascaleaGeorge.html Starting to Write course at The Hurst, Arvon Foundation tutors Courttia Newland and Pascale Petit 1116 October The Hurst, Clunton, Craven Arms, Shropshire, SY7 0JA Tel: 01588 640658 Email: thehurst@arvonfoundation.org http://www.arvonfoundation.org/pc546.html Manchester Literature Festival lunchtime reading at Manchester Art Gallery Tuesday 19 October  Pascale Petit is mentoring the poet Mahfuz Mir Ali for The Complete Works 2008 2010 Poetry School Online: Towards a Collection Fado Poetry Pascale Petit has translated three poems by Amαlia Rodrigues for an anthology of Fado poetry edited by Mimi Khalvati, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation, due to be published in April 2010 Selected Past Events  Poetry from Art: a public reading by poets on the Tate Modern course Monday 23 November 2009, 18.45 20.45 A poetry reading by Pascale Petit and the poets who attended the Poetry from Art autumn course 25 poets have been working 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, from current exhibitions (John Baldessari: Pure Beauty and Pop Life: Art in a Material World) and past 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 (June 2010), both published by Seren. |
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Early booking recommended as places limited to ten. 
