Bloodaxe Launch of Beast (online) 7–8.30pm Tuesday 22 April 2025
Launch with Pascale Petit, Vidyan Ravinthiran and Dis Poetry by Benjamin Zephaniah
This free Bloodaxe launch event was streamed on YouTube Live and is available by clicking on the image above or here: https://youtube.com/live/5Zy29ZHqwtw.
Forthcoming Events For Beast
Animals and Healing: Jay Griffiths & Pascale Petit (via Zoom) Wed 7 – 8:30pm 25 Feb 2026
An evening with poet Pascale Petit and author Jay Griffiths
Hosted by the Resurgence Trust
Tickets are FREE but you must book to attend HERE
StAnza Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, 19:00 – 20:45 Saturday 14 March 2026
Poetry Centre Stage – Carl Phillips and Pascale Petit
Performances from Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips, “one of America’s most original and
influential lyric poets,” and Laurel Prize winner Pascale Petit, known for her dazzling, creature-filled explorations of the natural world.
Supported by Poetry London.
Byre: Auditorium, St Andrews, Fife,
Buy tickets HERE StAnza main programme HERE
Bad Betty Live, Nottingham, 7pm Friday 20 March 2026
New Art Exchange, Nottingham (more tba soon)
Buy tickets HERE
Previous Launches of Beast
Cambridge Literary Festival 4pm Thursday 24 April
Gwyneth Lewis & Pascale Petit: Two Poets, One Story – at Newnham College, Cambridge
More HERE
Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival, 5pm – 6pm Saturday 26 April
Book HERE
She also leads Into the Wild, a workshop 12 noon – 2pm Saturday 26 April
Book HERE
Quay Words presents Pascale Petit: Beast, Exeter, 6:30 – 7:30 Wed 14 May
Literature Works host the Southwest launch of Pascale Petit’s 9th collection, Beast (Bloodaxe, 2025) at Exeter Custom House, Quayside, Exeter, Devon. HERE
Bude Literary Festival 6-7pm Saturday 17 May
Pascale Petit launches Beast in Bude, Cornwall
To book click HERE For the festival homepage click HERE
Launceston Poetry Festival 12 till 1pm Saturday 31 May
More details HERE
Out-Spoken London Thursday 5 June, 7.45pm
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London
Book HERE
Pascale Petit Launches Beast at Ware Poets 8-10pm Friday 13 June
Book HERE
Red Door Poets, Covent Garden, London, 7:15 – 9.30pm Tuesday 17 June
Pascale Petit’s London launch of Beast, at a reading with Richard Scott
and Katrina Naomi. HERE
Venue: Club for Acts and Actors (CAA), 20 Bedford St, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9HP
Heligan Homecoming Festival, Cornwall, 6pm Saturday 21 June
Simon Armitage and Pascale Petit reading at The Lost Gardens of Heligan,
Pentewan, St Austell, Cornwall PL26 6EN. To book cick HERE
Ledbury Poetry Festival: Beast 8pm Friday 27 June
Pascale Petit opened the 2025 Ledbury Poetry Festival with a solo reading from Beast, hosted by Peter Florence. Burgage Hall, Herefordshire. Also live streamed.
Tickets £20. Book online HERE.
How I Write: Pascale Petit, Arvon at Home 19:15–20:00 Wed 2 July
Join Daniel Sluman as he interviews award-winning poet and novelist Pascale Petit. HERE
Poetry Book Society Summer Showcase (YouTube) 7–8pm 22 July
Isabelle Baafi, Fiona Benson, and Pascale Petit hosted by PBS Selector, Victoria Kennefick
PBS Members FREE, £5 for non-members. Book HERE
Selected Past Events
L is for Liskeard Library: Laureate’s Library Tour, 7-8.30pm Thursday 6 March
Pascale Petit was Simon Armitage’s guest reader at Liskeard Library,
Barras Street, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 6AB
More information HERE SOLD OUT
BBC Radio 4, The Verb, Sunday 17:10, 3 November 2024
Ian McMillan’s guests were Alan Connor, Isy Suttie, and poets Pascale Petit and Deryn Rees Jones. Pascale chatted to Ian about her debut novel My Hummingbird Father (Salt, 2024) and read a poem from her new poetry collection, Beast. To listen, click HERE 
Maison de la Poésie, Paris, launch of bilingual edition Fauverie 7pm Fri 29 Sep
Pascale Petit read for the launch of the bilingual edition of her collection Fauverie, translated into French by Valérie Rouzeau, with a preface by Martine de Clercq, published by Le Castor Astral in summer 2023, and for the launch of L’île Rebelle: Anthologie de poésie britannique au tournant du XXI siécle, published by Gallimard Poésie, also in 2023.
With Martine De Clercq, Pascale Petit, Stephen Romer & Valérie Rouzeau, Chaired by Jacques Darras
Forward Meet the Poet 7 – 7.45pm BST Tuesday 1 September 2020
Pascale Petit, read from Tiger Girl, and was in conversation with Kim Moore, one of the judges for the Forward Prize Best Collection shortlist.
Zoom online event. Booking £3 HERE
Launch of Tiger Girl 7pm to 8pm Tuesday 8 September 2020
Pascale Petit launched Tiger Girl, along with Wayne-Holloway Smith and Phoebe Stuckes, who also launched their new poetry collections, Tuesday 8 September 7pm BST. Hosted by editor Neil Astley, this was streamed live through the Bloodaxe Books YouTube channel and can now be viewed. Here is a 15 minute clip of Pascale’s reading:
Pascale Petit’s collection Tiger Girl was shortlisted for Best Collection, in the 2020 Forward Prize for Poetry. Here she reads her poem ‘Jungle Owlet’ during the online awards event in October 2020.
