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Jul 21, 2024 · Four of Pascale’s earlier collections were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Salt publish her debut novel My Hummingbird Father in 2024 and Bloodaxe publish her ninth collection, Beast , in April 2025.
- TIGER GIRL
A poem from the book, ‘Indian Paradise Flycatcher’, won the...
- MAMA AMAZONICA
Pascale Petit’s seventh poetry collection Mama Amazonica has...
- FAUVERIE
Fauverie (Seren, 2014). shortlisted for the 2014 T S Eliot...
- Biography
Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales...
- Tutoring
Pascale Petit mentored Dzifa Benson and Yomi Sode for the...
- WHAT THE WATER GAVE ME: Poems after Frida Kahlo
Petit’s first response to Kahlo was 14 poems in The Wounded...
- THE ZOO FATHER
“Pascale Petit’s The Zoo Father does much more than mine a...
- Other Collections
Reviews of The Huntress “No other British poet I am aware of...
- TIGER GIRL
A poem from the book, ‘Indian Paradise Flycatcher’, won the 2020 Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize. Pascale Petit’s Tiger Girl marks a shift from the Amazonian rainforests of her previous work to explore her grandmother’s Indian heritage and the fauna and flora of subcontinental jungles.
Pascale Petit was born in Paris in 1953 to a French father and a Welsh mother, although she was brought up mainly in south Wales. She studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London, and it was not until her mid-40s that she published the first collection of her poetry: Heart of a Deer (1998).
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Pascale Petit was born in Paris, France, and lives in Cornwall, England. She is of French, Welsh, and Indian heritage. Her eighth collection, Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe Books, 2020), was shortlisted for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection and for the 2021 Wales Book of the Year.
Jul 1, 2020 · PASCALE PETIT:When I was a child I used to run away to the woods. I wanted to live in a hedge or under tree roots. Later, as a teenager, the teacher read out Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and I immediately knew then that I wanted to become a poet, that I could hide in poetry, as in a birding hide.
Dec 17, 2021 · Pascale Petit Cornwall, United Kingdom Pascale’s eighth collection, Tiger Girl, published by Bloodaxe in 2020, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and for Wales Book of the Year. A poem from the book, ‘Indian Paradise Flycatcher’, won the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize.
Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales and lives in Cornwall. She is of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. She has published eight collections of poetry, five of which are published by Seren.
