BBC Radio 4, The Verb, Sunday 17:10, 3 November 2024
Ian McMillan’s guests are Alan Connor, Isy Suttie, and poets Pascale Petit and Deryn Rees Jones. Pascale chats to Ian about her debut novel My Hummingbird Father (Salt, 2024) and reads a poem from her ninth poetry collection, Beast. To listen, click HERE
Café Writers (on Zoom) 7:30pm 10 February 2025
Headliner Pascale will read from her debut novel My Hummingbird Father (Salt, 2024) and forthcoming ninth poetry collection, Beast (Bloodaxe, April 2025).
Book HERE
L is for Liskeard Library: Laureate’s Library Tour, 7-8.30pm Thursday 6 March
Pascale Petit is Simon Armitage’s guest reader at Liskeard Library,
Barras Street, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 6AB
Entry is FREE but must be booked in advance HERE
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 will be streamed on YouTube Live and will be available by clicking on the image above or here: https://youtube.com/live/5Zy29ZHqwtw.
Cambridge Literary Festival 4pm Thursday 24 April 2025
Gwyneth Lewis & Pascale Petit read at Newnham College
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, Cambridge
More tba HERE
Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival, Saturday 26 April 2025
Pascale Petit launches her ninth poetry collection, Beast in Bristol
More tbc HERE
Animals, Beasts and Monsters, tutors Gwyneth Lewis & Pascale Petit, Moniack Mhor, 28 April – 3 May 2025
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 2025
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 2025
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 8pm Friday 30 May 2025
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 info tba on 2 January) Book HERE
Launceston Poetry Festival Saturday 31 May 2025 (tbc)
Pascale Petit Launches Beast at Ware Poets 8-10pm Friday 13 June 2025
Southern Maltings arts centre, Kibes Lane, Ware, Herfordshire, SG12 7BS
Book HERE
Red Door Poets, Covent Garden, London, Tuesday 17 June 2025
Pascale Petit’s London launch of Beast, reading with Richard Scott
and Katrina Naomi. More details tbc soon.
Venue: Club for Acts and Actors, 20 Bedford St, London WC2E 9HP
Heligan Homecoming Festival, Cornwall, Saturday 21 June 2025
Simon Armitage and Pascale Petit reading at The Lost Gardens of Heligan,
Pentewan, St Austell, Cornwall PL26 6EN
More tba soon, bookings will be HERE
How I Write: Pascale Petit, Arvon at Home 19:15–20:00 Wed 2 July 2025
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 2025
What are the ways into writing the personal in poetry? How can you make it intimate, playful and inventive for the writer and reader? Intrepid poets Pascale Petit and Will Harris, both with award-winning collections investigating the lyric self, will guide you on this residential course. Guest reader is Ella Frears. Book HERE
North Cornwall Book Festival Saturday/Sunday 27/28 September 2025
Katrina Naomi and Pascale Petit reading. Pascale will read from her new poetry collection, Beast, and her debut novel My Hummingbird Father.
ST Endellion, Port Isaac, Cornwall PL29 3TP.
Details to be announced in May HERE
Selected Past Events
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.