@pascalepoet

'Beast' | 'Tiger Girl' shortlist Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica' won Laurel, Ondaatje prizes @BloodaxeBooks | 1st novel 'My Hummingbird Father' | rep @JonCurzon

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Peter Frankopan
@peterfrankopanOct 8
Well. Here it is: a new book that has been keeping me busy for a while. The Seventh Continent: Antarctica and the Southern Oceans. Past, Present and Future 1/5
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My poem ‘Prickly Pears’ is in the Frida Kahlo feature of new edition Tate Etc. magazine! As well as What the Water Gave Me being in the Tate Modern Frida Kahlo exhibition. This poem appeared in my collection What the Water Gave Me published by @SerenBooks #Frida
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What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo is back in print for now, and can be bought from @SerenBooks in case you tried to get a copy and couldn’t as it was out of print for ages. serenbooks.com/book/what-the…

What the Water Gave Me - Seren

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2010 Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2011 “Pascale’s poems are as fresh as paint, and make you look all over again at Frida and her brilliant and tragic...

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My guest episode of @bbcpoetryplease is available now!
Bloodaxe Books@BloodaxeBooksAug 25
Another chance to hear @bbcpoetryplease with @pascalepoet as @McgoughRoger's guest. Among her choices from listener requests were poems by Niall Campbell and Moniza Alvi. Pascale also read a poem from her ninth collection Beast. Rebroadcast 19 August. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dzg…

BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Pascale Petit

Roger McGough talks to French British poet Pascale Petit.

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Bloodaxe Books@BloodaxeBooksAug 25
Another chance to hear @bbcpoetryplease with @pascalepoet as @McgoughRoger's guest. Among her choices from listener requests were poems by Niall Campbell and Moniza Alvi. Pascale also read a poem from her ninth collection Beast. Rebroadcast 19 August. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dzg…

BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Pascale Petit

Roger McGough talks to French British poet Pascale Petit.

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Here I am trying to write in the heat, and reading to prep for my climate hyperfocus course when Dean Atta posts a pic of my What the Water Gave Me in situ at the Frida Kahlo show at Tate Modern! I knew @SerenBooks reprinted it especially for that but haven’t seen it myself
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Simeon Berry@simeonberryAug 10
(10/61) “as night fell, Maman would light her cigarette / and set the curtains alight, the curtains we didn’t have.” —Pascale Petit (@pascalepoet), “House of Puberty” (Beast) @BloodaxeBooks #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Pascale Petit’s Beast: three photographs of a brown wooden carving of a quadruped with short, stubby legs, red toenails, red eyes, red nose, red lips, a long red tongue, white teeth, and a long snout.

ALT The cover of Pascale Petit’s Beast: three photographs of a brown wooden carving of a quadruped with short, stubby legs, red toenails, red eyes, red nose, red lips, a long red tongue, white teeth, and a long snout.

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My next online course on Zoom is for @Outspoken_Press Hyperfocus: Climate, teaching alternate weeks with the amazing Tishani Doshi. Starts 1st Sept. Bookings open! This is part of their three new Hyperfocus courses: Climate, Ekphrasis, Home: outspokenldn.com/shop/hyperc…
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I wrote two sonnets today, and yesterday I wrote a new poem and found the end of the one I wrote the day before. This follows a few weeks of nothing. It’s such relief to write again! How are you writing?
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Trio House Press@triohousepressAug 1
Poets and orgs that gravitate toward eco-poetry and nature poetry—help us get the word out about this contest? Thx!
Trio House Press@triohousepressJul 31
Replying to @triohousepress
@triohousepress.org is so pleased to be sponsoring a new publication contest, The Scott King Award in Eco-Poetry, to celebrate our acquisition of Red Dragonfly Press and honor its legacy. Submissions are open from today until November 7! 💛💜💛💜 triohousepress.org/submissio…
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The 2027 Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook is out! They have reprinted my essay, ‘Perseverance in Getting Poetry Published’. It’s surreal – I spent decades scouring this bible for tips & insights before I published. Happy 120th anniversary @Writers_Artists writersandartists.co.uk/
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Tony Juniper
@TonyJuniperJul 11
Next week I will record a programme about the life & times of E.O. Wilson for the BBC series ‘Great Lives’. A truly brilliant scientist dubbed ‘Darwin’s Heir’ & ‘the father of biodiversity’. His work has been an inspiration for me since my undergraduate days, & remains so today.
Saganism
@SaganismmJul 10
“We are liquidating the Earth’s natural capital. We are tearing down the biological library before we have even read the books. No amount of economic growth can compensate for the loss of a self-sustaining biosphere.” — E.O. Wilson
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Big thanks @Poetry_London & Freya Jackson for an insightful review of Beast 💚🐆🦌💚
Bloodaxe Books@BloodaxeBooksJul 2
'...a collection that is just as wild as the beasts that populate it, allowing the speaker to find a space for herself within the menagerie as ‘the curator of my own heaven’.’ – Freya Jackson, @Poetry_London, on Pascale Petit's ninth collection Beast. poetrylondon.co.uk/an-inheri…
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Bloodaxe Books@BloodaxeBooksJul 2
'...a collection that is just as wild as the beasts that populate it, allowing the speaker to find a space for herself within the menagerie as ‘the curator of my own heaven’.’ – Freya Jackson, @Poetry_London, on Pascale Petit's ninth collection Beast. poetrylondon.co.uk/an-inheri…
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My copy of Resurgence & Ecologist has arrived, with a double page spread on 2 of my poems and an introduction by poetry editors Rachel Marsh and Briony Hughes! It’s a superb issue ‘The inner work of liberation’ packed with fab features. You can order here resurgence.org
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After a rejection, even a considered kind one, comes the will to improve & try again, the inevitable depression. You must keep balance & faith – being a poet is a constant negotiation with equilibrium, keeping a core of self belief so one day the next good poem can come
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NEU! Boots fur immer@NEUboots26May 16
We’re delighted to welcome #PascalePetit to the #ArtSonnetChain, especially as she’s not only written a fine sonnet, but let it give rise in turn to an artwork. Read the Ice Tree Sonnet (and view the Ice Tree Canopy) here: newbootsandpantisocracies.wo… #NewBootsAndPantisocracies

Art Sonnet Chain, 7: Pascale Petit

Ice Tree Sonnet Bring me water, bring me snow, bring me ice.I’m turning myself into a tree with icicle branches,my hands leaves like frost on night’s windows,my skin lace holier than a confirmation…

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PoetryBookSoc
@PoetryBookSoc24 Jul 2017
'The abuse of women & children is a worldwide problem, as is the exploitation of nature' Pascale Petit on Mama Amazonica #PBSAutumnChoice
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Caroline Bird@CarolineBirdUK1 Sep 2020
‘It is always daytime, even at night/ dream-sun pouring through the skylights’ - Pascale Petit, from her new collection ‘Tiger Girl’ @pascalepoet
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Marion McCready@Marion_McCreadyMay 21
Fond memories of attending a poetry writing retreat many moons ago by the Canal du Midi tutored by the wonderful Pascale Petit. #canaldumidi #writingretreat #poetry
Celeste@ilian_rodiaMay 20
Henri Matisse 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘶 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘪, 1898
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