Pascale Petit (poet)

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Pascale Petit
Pascale Petit
Pascale Petit
Born (1953-12-20) 20 December 1953 (age 70)
Paris, France
OccupationPoet
LanguageEnglish
NationalityFrench and British
Alma materRoyal College of Art
Period1994–present
Notable works
  • Mama Amazonica (2017)
Notable awards
  • RSL Ondaatje Prize, 2018
  • Laurel Prize for Poetry, 2020

Pascale Petit (born 20 December 1953),[1] is a French-born British poet of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. She was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life. She has travelled widely, particularly in the Peruvian and Venezuelan Amazon and India.

Petit has published eight poetry collections, four of which were shortlisted for the

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[3]

Biography

Petit has published eight poetry collections: Heart of a Deer (1998), The Zoo Father (2001), The Huntress (2005), The Treekeeper's Tale (2008), What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo (2010), Fauverie (2014), Mama Amazonica (2017) and Tiger Girl (2020). She also published a pamphlet of poems The Wounded Deer: Fourteen Poems after Frida Kahlo (2005). Petit's 2020 collection Tiger Girl, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Her 2017 collection, Mama Amazonica, won the inaugural Laurel Prize for Poetry 2020, the 2018 RSL Ondaatje Prize, was a

Next Generation Poets. The Zoo Father is published in a bilingual edition in Mexico and distributed in Spain and Latin America. She has received many awards, including the Cholmondeley Award, four from Arts Council England and three from the Society of Authors. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Serbian, Spanish (in Mexico) and French. She has translated poems of a number of contemporary Chinese poets including Yang Lian, Wang Xiaoni and Zhai Yongming. She was Poetry Editor of Poetry London from 1990 to 2005, a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Middlesex University from 2007 to 2009 and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2011–12. She tutored poetry courses for Tate Modern for nine years, and currently tutors for the Arvon Foundation, The Poetry School and Literature Wales. In 2018 Petit became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
.

The Australian poet

Yeats
, tells the Irish poet: 'Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.' Petit's collection, exploring the way trauma hurts an artist into creation, celebrates the rebarbative energy with which Kahlo redeemed pain and transformed it into paint."

Bibliography

Poetry

  • Icefall Climbing pamphlet (Smith Doorstop, 1994)[4]
  • Heart of a Deer (Enitharmon, 1998)[5]
  • Tying the Song Co-editor with Mimi Khalvati (Enitharmon, 2000)[6]
  • The Zoo Father (Seren, 2001)[7]
  • El Padre Zoológico/The Zoo Father (El Tucan, Mexico City, 2004)[8]
  • The Huntress (Seren, 2005)[9]
  • The Wounded Deer: Fourteen poems after Frida Kahlo pamphlet (Smith Doorstop, 2005)[10]
  • The Treekeeper's Tale (Seren, 2008)[11]
  • What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo (Seren, UK, 2010, Black Lawrence Press, US, 2011)[12]
  • Poetry from Art at Tate Modern editor, pamphlet (Tate Publications, 2010)[13]
  • Fauverie (Seren, 2014)[14]
  • Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe, 2017)[15]
  • Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe, 2020)[16]

Critical studies and reviews of Petit's work

Mama Amazonica
  • Van Hek, Lin (January–February 2018). "Poetry of wildness". Quadrant. 62 (1–2 [543]): 85–86.
  • Financial Times, 25 May 2018, In Praise of Pascale Petit, a poet breaking into new territory by Nilanjana Roy

Awards, prizes and fellowships

References

  1. ^ "Pascale Petit". lidiavianu.scriptmania.com. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Petit takes inaugural Laurel Prize for Mama Amazonica | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Pascale Petit". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  4. OCLC 32509795
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  5. OCLC 1167596628
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  6. OCLC 44152912
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  7. OCLC 1170500661
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  8. OCLC 1025527051
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  9. OCLC 1170001478
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  10. OCLC 1172120161
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  11. OCLC 213113734
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  12. OCLC 1058276544
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  13. OCLC 903084777
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  14. OCLC 1023220332
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  15. OCLC 1027577069
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  16. OCLC 1111792293
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  17. ^ "Winners | Manchester Poetry Prize | Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)". Archived from the original on 9 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  18. ^ "Past winners of the Cholmondeley Awards". Society of Authors. Accessed 15 March 2018.
  19. ^ "Keats-Shelley Prize 2020". keats-shelley.org. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  20. ^ "2020 Winners". Laurel Prize for Poetry in Association with Poetry School. Retrieved 9 April 2021.

External links

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