BBC Radio 4, The Verb, Sunday 17:10, 3 November 2024
Presented by Ian McMillan. Ian McMillan’s guests are writer and crossword editor Alan Connor, comedian, singer and novelist Isy Suttie, and two poets, Pascale Petit and Deryn Rees Jones. Pascale chats to Ian about her debut novel My Hummingbird Father (Salt, 2024) and reads a corresponding poem from her ninth poetry collection, Beast (Bloodaxe, April 2025)
To listen, click HERE
Todmorden Book Festival 2024, 2-3.30pm, Saturday 9 November 2024
From There to Here: New Fiction, with Andrew McMillan, Joelle Taylor and Pascale Petit.
Three writers lauded for their work in other fields discuss their debut novels.
St Mary’s Church, Burnley Road, Todmorden OL14 7BD. Tickets £5 Book HERE
Pascale Petit & Davina Quinlivan, Bookbag Bookshop, Exeter, 6-8pm 26 November 2024
My Hummingbird Father: Pascale in conversation with Davina.
Book HERE
Location: Bookbag/McCoy’s Arcade with Sacred Grounds café, Exeter, Devon
Building Solidarity Through Poetry, Southwark Cathedral, 3–6pm 30 November 2024
London Bridge London SE1 9DA (Pascale gave a reading and announced winners)
Book HERE
The Hummingbird Father: a Conversation with Pascale Petit, 7-8pm GMT Tues 10 Dec 2024 (online). Hosted by The Poetry Practice
Victoria Field in conversation with the poet Pascale Petit about her debut novel My Hummingbird Father
£6.13 to join HERE
Poets Write Fiction: Sue Hubbard & Pascale Petit at The Colony Room Green 6:30 PM 8:40 PM Monday 3 February 2025 (more tba)
Sue Hubbard and Pascale Petit read from their poetry collections and their fiction
Colony Room Green, 4 Heddon Street, Regent Street, London W1B 4BS
More details 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, 7-9pm Thursday 6 March 2025
Pascale Petit is Simon Armitage’s guest reader at Liskeard Library,
Barras Street, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 6AB (more tba)
Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival, 25/26/27 April 2025
Pascale Petit launches her ninth poetry collection, Beast
More tba 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.
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 North Cornwall
To book click HERE (more tba)
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) Book HERE
Launceston Poetry Festival Saturday 31 May 2025 (tbc)
Women in Word Literary Festival, Penzance, Cornwall, 5–8 June 2025
Pascale Petit reading and masterclass, more tba
The Hypatia Trust, Lower Ground Floor, The Regent, 54 Chapel Street (entrance on Custom House Lane) Penzance, Cornwall TR18 4AE
Further details tbc HERE
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
Pascale Petit in conversation with Daniel Sluman, Arvon at Home 19:15–20:00 Wed 2 July
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.
