Bloodaxe Launch of Beast (online) 7–8.30pm Tuesday 22 April 2025
Launch reading 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.
Cambridge Literary Festival 4pm Thursday 24 April
Gwyneth Lewis & Pascale Petit: Two Poets, One Story – at Newnham College, Cambridge
Pascale launches her new poetry collection from Bloodaxe, Beast, on publication day
along with Gwyneth Lewis launching her new Bloodaxe collection First Rain in Paradise
Lucia Windsor room, Newnham College, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DF
More HERE
Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival, 5pm – 6pm Saturday 26 April
Wild Poems: Pascale Petit launches her new collection, Beast
and reads with Fran Lock and Susie Wilson
at St George’s, Great George St, Bristol BS1 5RR
Book HERE
She also leads Into the Wild, a workshop 12 noon – 2pm Saturday 26 April
Book HERE
Animals, Beasts and Monsters, tutors Gwyneth Lewis & Pascale Petit, Moniack Mhor, 28 April – 3 May
Guest Reader: Jay Griffiths. Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire , IV4 7HT
More details and to 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.
Beast will be for sale and available for signings, book HERE
Bude Literary Festival 6-7pm Saturday 17 May
Pascale Petit launches Beast in Bude, Cornwall
The Parkhouse Centre, Ergue-Gaberic Way, Bude, EX23 8LD
To book click HERE For the festival homepage click HERE
The Plough Poetry Prize Award & Readings 8–9.30pm Friday 30 May
The Plough Arts Centre, 9-11 Fore Street, Great Torrington, Devon EX38 8HQ
Pascale will announce prizewinners and read from her 9th collection Beast
More details and to Book click HERE
Launceston Poetry Festival 12 till 1pm Saturday 31 May
Pascale launches Beast and reads with Katrina Naomi.
More details HERE
Out-Spoken London Thursday 5 June, 7.15pm
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London
Pascale will be reading alongside Ange Mlinko and Daisy Lafarge, plus musicians.
More details coming soon.
Pascale Petit Launches Beast at Ware Poets 8-10pm Friday 13 June
Southern Maltings arts centre, Kibes Lane, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12 7BS
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. Entrance FREE but must be booked in advance 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 will be opening the 2025 Ledbury Poetry Festival with a reading from her new collection Beast.
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. Daniel will be asking Pascale about her creative process, her influences, and how she has approached her writing at different stages throughout her long career. Book HERE
The Lyric Self, Arvon course at Totleigh Barton, Devon, Mon 14– Sat 19 July
What are the ways into writing the personal in poetry? How can you make it intimate, playful and inventive for the writer and reader? Guest reader is Ella Frears. Book HERE
FULLY BOOKED
North Cornwall Book Festival Saturday 27 September
Katrina Naomi and Pascale Petit reading. Pascale will read from her new poetry collection, Beast, and her debut novel My Hummingbird Father.
She will also lead a workshop.
ST Endellion, Port Isaac, Cornwall PL29 3TP.
Details to be announced in May 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.
