Pascale Petit Email & Phone Number

Pascale Petit’s debut novel, My Hummingbird Father, is published by Salt Publishing in 2024. Her eighth poetry collection, Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and for Wales Book of the Year. Her seventh, Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe, 2017), won the inaugural Laurel prize 2020, the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2018, was a Poetry Book Society Choice, and was shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize. Her previous, Fauverie, was her fourth to be shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and five poems from it won the Manchester Poetry Prize. Her fifth collection What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo (Seren, 2010), was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize, Wales Book of the Year and was a book of the year in the Observer. Four of her collections were books of the year in The Times Literary Supplement and The Independent. A bilingual edition of her second collection The Zoo Father is published in Mexico and a poem from the book was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. She has a Selected Poems published in China (2014), three books translated in Serbia and one in France. Pascale was selected her as one of the Next Generation Poets. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and spent the first part of her life as a visual artist. She has worked as Poetry Editor for Poetry London and taught poetry courses at Tate Modern for nine years. She was the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2011-12.Website: http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk Blog: http://pascalepetit.blogspot.com/Specialties: Poetry, art, literature, Amazonian wildlife and anthropology, Indian wildlife

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