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WELCOME TO PASCALE PETIT'S WEBSITE

   
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 both the TS Eliot Prize and 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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News and events

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Pascale went to Shanghai in Dec 2011
to take part in a translation project as Visiting Poetry Fellow at Fudan University. The group also consisted of George Szirtes, Yang Lian, Xiao Kaiyu. Read her account on UEA's New Writing Net: http://www.newwriting.net/writing/translation/chinese-water-and-bronze-demons

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
  http://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

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 from Art
at Tate Modern Poetry-writing courses led by award winning poet Pascale Petit.
Summer course
Poetry from Art Shaping Poems: Image-Making 11 June9 July  2012
Tate Modern throughout the galleries, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern
to book online or call 020 7887 8888
£110 (£90 concessions) per term, booking essential. Price includes entry to exhibition and drinks in the Members Room after each class



London Book Fair: Market Focus on China, Earls Court, London, 10-11am Wednesday 18 April 2012

panel discussion with Xi Chuan, Han Dong and Pascale Petit, chaired by Michel Hockx from SOAS
Chinese & English simultaneous translation.Contemporary Chinese poetry is constantly evolving, drawing both on the ancient and rich poetic tradition in China as well as on influences from around the world. Xi Chuan and Han Dong, two of China’s most celebrated contemporary poets, read from their work with fellow poet Pascale Petit and reflect on this evocative and though-provoking genre.
http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en/Sessions/415/Contemporary-Chinese-Poetry
Whitehall Room,
Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Warwick Road, London SW5 9TA



Metamorphoses: Pascale Petit will take part in the first translation conference in Algiers, organised by EUNIC in partnership with the British Council, 21-25 April 2012



Making Worlds – a poetry writing course at Chateau Ventenac in the South of France with Pascale Petit 12–18 May 2012
(Dates for 2013: 18–24th May)

  SOLD OUT
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




Redgrove's Life: a Celebration of Peter Redgrove's poetry at Coffee-House Poetry, the Troubadour Café, 8pm Monday 21st May
with Penelope Shuttle, Alan Brownjohn, Katrina Naomi and Pascale Petit

263-267 Old Brompton Road, London SW5 9JA. Telephone: 020 7370 1434 Email:coffpoetry@aol.com
http://www.coffeehousepoetry.org




Belgrade Poetry Festival 29 May – 2 June 2012
Pascale Petit will attend the Belgrade Poetry Festival to launch the Serbian edition of her second poetry collection The Zoo Father, translated by Milan Dobricic, more details tba



Dinefwr Literature Festival, West Wales 29 June – 1 July 2012
Pascale Petit will take part in the inaugural festival in Dinefwr Park and Castle, Carmarthenshire
To book tickets: 0844 888 999 1 http://www.dinefwrliteraturefestival.co.uk



Ty Newydd residential poetry course in North Wales, 6 – 11 August 2012
Ty Newydd, Llanystumdwy, Cricieth, Gwynedd LL52 0LW
co-tutor Daljit Nagra, guest reader Karen McCarthy Woolf
To book phone 01766 522811 or email: tynewydd@literaturewales.org

http://www.tynewydd.org/english/courses%202010/Course%2010%202012.html



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
http://www.poetryschool.com/courses/onlinecourses.php?cid=3



Selected Past Events

Poetry from Art pamphlet launch Saturday 24 September 2011

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Copyright Tate, photographed by Ana Escobar, Poetry from Art book launch 2011 (please do not use without permission from Tate)
Tate Modern published a pamphlet of poems by the poets on the Poetry from Art 2011 summer course, edited by Pascale Petit
There was a public reading to launch the anthology which is now available from the Tate Modern bookshop.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/coursesworkshops/24136.htm




   
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

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

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


The British Council's New Silk Road, Kazahkstan

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


 

From Kathmandu: Pratik the Special Contemporary British Poetry issue
guest edited by Pascale Petit
editor Yuyutsu R D Sharma

 

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

 


 







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