Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜
@pascalepetit.bsky.social
BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo is back in print for now, and can be bought from @serenbooks.bsky.social in case you tried to get a copy and couldn’t as it was out of print for ages.
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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 lif...
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September 13, 2026 at 6:56 AM
What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo is back in print for now, and can be bought from @serenbooks.bsky.social in case you tried to get a copy and couldn’t as it was out of print for ages.
www.serenbooks.com/book/what-th...
www.serenbooks.com/book/what-th...
‘The Hudson Remembers’ I wrote this on the first anniversary of #911
September 11, 2026 at 9:40 PM
‘The Hudson Remembers’ I wrote this on the first anniversary of #911
Ecoshock really is pocket size, and arrived with gifts! My little poem is inside, ‘Mama Antarctica Remembers her Home’, part of a series in my next collection, & is nestled among beauties & great company. Published by Aftershock Review @maxwallis.bsky.social and edited @glynedwards.bsky.social
August 23, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Ecoshock really is pocket size, and arrived with gifts! My little poem is inside, ‘Mama Antarctica Remembers her Home’, part of a series in my next collection, & is nestled among beauties & great company. Published by Aftershock Review @maxwallis.bsky.social and edited @glynedwards.bsky.social
My episode of Poetry Please was on BBC radio 4 last night, available now. I chose poems by @romalynante3.bsky.social, Niall Campbell, Moniza Alvi, Warsan Shire, more, & read mine from Beast, ‘The Lammergeier Daughter’ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Presenter Roger McGough. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Pascale Petit
Roger McGough talks to French British poet Pascale Petit.
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August 20, 2026 at 7:29 AM
My episode of Poetry Please was on BBC radio 4 last night, available now. I chose poems by @romalynante3.bsky.social, Niall Campbell, Moniza Alvi, Warsan Shire, more, & read mine from Beast, ‘The Lammergeier Daughter’ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Presenter Roger McGough. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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📢The brilliant poet @pascalepetit.bsky.social is Roger McGough's 'Poetry Please' guest, this evening at 23:30. Looking forward to this! #poetry 📻 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Pascale Petit
Roger McGough talks to French British poet Pascale Petit.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 19, 2026 at 5:56 PM
📢The brilliant poet @pascalepetit.bsky.social is Roger McGough's 'Poetry Please' guest, this evening at 23:30. Looking forward to this! #poetry 📻 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Help put women poets on the map, where they belong. Our friends @FoundationSwift are the only charity focussed on building support for UK women poets. They are running a 30-day crowdfunding campaign raising vital core funds. Please share widely! www.justgiving.com/campaign/wom...
Putting Women Poets on the Map
Help keep a national home for women poets open
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August 14, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Help put women poets on the map, where they belong. Our friends @FoundationSwift are the only charity focussed on building support for UK women poets. They are running a 30-day crowdfunding campaign raising vital core funds. Please share widely! www.justgiving.com/campaign/wom...
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.bsky.social reprinted it especially for that but haven’t seen it myself
August 14, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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.bsky.social reprinted it especially for that but haven’t seen it myself
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Offer applies to ALL books incl this year's top paperbacks from #PascalePetit @BloodaxeBooks #SarahHowe @ChattoBooks #FionaBenson @JonathanCape #RichardScott @FaberBooks and preorders from #TishaniDoshi #KarenMcCarthyWoolf @DaljitNagra4 and #AdaLimon and more! ❤️ vervepoetrybookshop.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Offer applies to ALL books incl this year's top paperbacks from #PascalePetit @BloodaxeBooks #SarahHowe @ChattoBooks #FionaBenson @JonathanCape #RichardScott @FaberBooks and preorders from #TishaniDoshi #KarenMcCarthyWoolf @DaljitNagra4 and #AdaLimon and more! ❤️ vervepoetrybookshop.com
My next online course on Zoom is for @outspokenpress.bsky.social 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:
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HYPERFOCUS - CLIMATE (September 2026) — Out-Spoken
Duration: 4 weeks Dates: 1–22 September 2026 Tutors: Pascale Petit, Tishani Doshi Workshops: Tuesdays, 6–8pm UK (online) NEW! Instalment payments available – select Klarna at Checkout. ...
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August 6, 2026 at 9:18 AM
My next online course on Zoom is for @outspokenpress.bsky.social 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:
www.outspokenldn.com/shop/hypercl...
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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?
August 3, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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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You can now buy tickets for an appealing new event - the Dobunni Festival, Stroud 16-17 Oct. Poets include @pascalepetit.bsky.social & @angelafrance.bsky.social . Here's a snatch of the 16th's events, incl @zoebrooks.bsky.social, Kate Potts & me. I'm staying for whole festival-hope to see you there!
July 31, 2026 at 10:41 AM
You can now buy tickets for an appealing new event - the Dobunni Festival, Stroud 16-17 Oct. Poets include @pascalepetit.bsky.social & @angelafrance.bsky.social . Here's a snatch of the 16th's events, incl @zoebrooks.bsky.social, Kate Potts & me. I'm staying for whole festival-hope to see you there!
My papier-maché sculpture, Gaia, in the Natural History Museum, London, in the 1990 ‘Rainforest Art’ exhibition. I exhibited it along with my two giant pitcher plants.
July 29, 2026 at 6:39 AM
My papier-maché sculpture, Gaia, in the Natural History Museum, London, in the 1990 ‘Rainforest Art’ exhibition. I exhibited it along with my two giant pitcher plants.
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This week only Waterstones are offering 25% discount on preorders for Bloodaxe Books poetry books out in October. #WPreorder offer closes 24 July.
Just go to www.waterstones.com, paste 9781780377964 into search box, click PREORDER and add code SUMMER26 for the discount.
Just go to www.waterstones.com, paste 9781780377964 into search box, click PREORDER and add code SUMMER26 for the discount.
July 21, 2026 at 10:07 AM
This week only Waterstones are offering 25% discount on preorders for Bloodaxe Books poetry books out in October. #WPreorder offer closes 24 July.
Just go to www.waterstones.com, paste 9781780377964 into search box, click PREORDER and add code SUMMER26 for the discount.
Just go to www.waterstones.com, paste 9781780377964 into search box, click PREORDER and add code SUMMER26 for the discount.
The 2027 Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook is out! They have reprinted my essay, ‘Perseverance in Getting Poetry Published’, written for 2026 edition. It’s surreal – I spent decades scouring this bible for tips & insights. Happy 120 anniversary @writersandartists.bsky.social
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www.writersandartists.co.uk
July 18, 2026 at 8:58 AM
The 2027 Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook is out! They have reprinted my essay, ‘Perseverance in Getting Poetry Published’, written for 2026 edition. It’s surreal – I spent decades scouring this bible for tips & insights. Happy 120 anniversary @writersandartists.bsky.social
www.writersandartists.co.uk
www.writersandartists.co.uk
A lovely surprise to find a review of Beast in the summer issue of @poetrylondon.bsky.social by Freya Jackson, you can read it online too with the link below here.
'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, in @poetrylondon.bsky.social, on @pascalepetit.bsky.social's Beast.
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July 3, 2026 at 6:27 AM
A lovely surprise to find a review of Beast in the summer issue of @poetrylondon.bsky.social by Freya Jackson, you can read it online too with the link below here.
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'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, in @poetrylondon.bsky.social, on @pascalepetit.bsky.social's Beast.
poetrylondon.co.uk/an-inheritan...
poetrylondon.co.uk/an-inheritan...
July 2, 2026 at 6:12 PM
'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, in @poetrylondon.bsky.social, on @pascalepetit.bsky.social's Beast.
poetrylondon.co.uk/an-inheritan...
poetrylondon.co.uk/an-inheritan...
My copy of Resurgence & Ecologist has arrived, with a double page spread on 2 of my poems and an introduction to my poetry 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 it online here
www.resurgence.org
www.resurgence.org
July 1, 2026 at 8:41 AM
My copy of Resurgence & Ecologist has arrived, with a double page spread on 2 of my poems and an introduction to my poetry 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 it online here
www.resurgence.org
www.resurgence.org
After a rejection, even a considered kind one, comes the will to improve & try again, the inevitable depression during which you must keep balance and faith – being a poet is a constant negotiation with equilibrium, keeping a core of self belief so one day the next good poem will come out of nowhere
June 19, 2026 at 6:05 AM
After a rejection, even a considered kind one, comes the will to improve & try again, the inevitable depression during which you must keep balance and faith – being a poet is a constant negotiation with equilibrium, keeping a core of self belief so one day the next good poem will come out of nowhere
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Good news! A brilliant new festival at Stroud,Gloucestershire @dobunni.bsky.social I'm honoured to be headlining with @pascalepetit.bsky.social. Looking forward to hearing this galaxy of poets.The Early Bird ticket,now on sale,admits you to over 15 readings! See you in Oct.. SEARCH DOBUNNI TICKETS!
June 16, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Good news! A brilliant new festival at Stroud,Gloucestershire @dobunni.bsky.social I'm honoured to be headlining with @pascalepetit.bsky.social. Looking forward to hearing this galaxy of poets.The Early Bird ticket,now on sale,admits you to over 15 readings! See you in Oct.. SEARCH DOBUNNI TICKETS!
I’d love to have a patron, need funding to go to the Amazon for research for my next book. Haha any offers?
June 15, 2026 at 7:45 PM
I’d love to have a patron, need funding to go to the Amazon for research for my next book. Haha any offers?
I've written six sonnet-shaped poems in four days, funny how they come after a period when I just couldn’t get anywhere and felt quite desperate. Now I am happy. Also helps to draw. Here is 'Canopy'
June 9, 2026 at 3:51 PM
I've written six sonnet-shaped poems in four days, funny how they come after a period when I just couldn’t get anywhere and felt quite desperate. Now I am happy. Also helps to draw. Here is 'Canopy'
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Congratulations to Wasafiri friend, @pascalepetit.bsky.social, who recently won the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize for her poem, 'Night Canoe on Lake Sandoval'. Pascale is the first poet in the history of the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize to have both won and been highly commended in the same year! 👏
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June 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Congratulations to Wasafiri friend, @pascalepetit.bsky.social, who recently won the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize for her poem, 'Night Canoe on Lake Sandoval'. Pascale is the first poet in the history of the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize to have both won and been highly commended in the same year! 👏
Thank you to the Observer for publishing my new poem ‘Nettle Dress’ as The Sunday Poem on 31st May 2026, the poem will appear in my next collection so thank you for encouragement.Thank you @chris_riddell for the beautiful illustration and for including a fox!
June 1, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Thank you to the Observer for publishing my new poem ‘Nettle Dress’ as The Sunday Poem on 31st May 2026, the poem will appear in my next collection so thank you for encouragement.Thank you @chris_riddell for the beautiful illustration and for including a fox!
I’m tutoring a weekend writing retreat with Cecilia Knapp for Raise the Bar in Bristol, November 13 – 15, bookings close tomorrow, Sunday 31st May! So be quick if you’d like to join us. We’ll be in a beautiful location near Bristol, in countryside
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November '26 Post-Emerging Weekend Writing Retreat — Raise The Bar
Raise the Bar's post-emerging weekend writing retreat in November 2026.
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May 31, 2026 at 7:14 AM
I’m tutoring a weekend writing retreat with Cecilia Knapp for Raise the Bar in Bristol, November 13 – 15, bookings close tomorrow, Sunday 31st May! So be quick if you’d like to join us. We’ll be in a beautiful location near Bristol, in countryside
www.rtbspokenword.com/nov-26-retre...
www.rtbspokenword.com/nov-26-retre...
My Pitcher Plants I, II, III and IV
#mamaamazonica #mycanopydaughter #rainforestart #rainforests #pitcherplant
#mamaamazonica #mycanopydaughter #rainforestart #rainforests #pitcherplant
May 27, 2026 at 4:33 PM
My Pitcher Plants I, II, III and IV
#mamaamazonica #mycanopydaughter #rainforestart #rainforests #pitcherplant
#mamaamazonica #mycanopydaughter #rainforestart #rainforests #pitcherplant