www.pascalepetit.co.uk

   
Photo credit Kaido Vainomaa

Welcome to the official website of poet Pascale Petit. Pascale's fifth collection What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo was published by Seren in the UK (2010) and Black Lawrence Press in the US (2011). The UK edition was shortlisted for both the TS Eliot Prize and Wales Book of the Year, and was a book of the year in the Observer. She tutors poetry courses at Tate Modern and for The Poetry School.

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Pascale Petit has been awarded an Arts Council of England Grants for the Arts to complete her sixth collection My Father's City. The award is to buy time and spend a month in Paris for research. The collection will be published by Seren in 2014.

Bridlington Poetry Festival 2013 Summer School with Pascale Petit and Daljit Nagra, 13-16 June 2013
£350 including B&B accommodation in the superbly-located Expanse Hotel, with its inspiring sea views, and a free Weekend Pass to Bridlington Poetry Festival
A small number of bursaries are available. For more information on how to apply, please email brid.poetryfest@eastriding.gov.uk or 01482 392745
Sewerby Hall, Church Lane, Sewerby, Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, YO15 1EA http://www.bridlington-poetry-festival.com/index.html

Pascale Petit is the judge of the Poetry London 2013 poetry competition First prize £1,000 and publication in Poetry London, deadline for entries 1st May 2013
http://www.poetrylondon.co.uk/competition

Next course at Tate Modern will be Oct/Nov 2013 More details tba soon
Transformations: Poetry from Art at Tate Modern Poetry-writing course led by Pascale Petit

Extending Your Boundaries – a poetry writing course at Chateau Ventenac in the South of France with Pascale Petit, 18–24 May 2013  SOLD OUT

 
For more details click here.
http://www.chateaulifecourses.com/poetry-pascale-petit/ 
Email julia@chateauventenac.com or phone Julia in the Languedoc:  ++44 (0) 7773 206344  or 0033 671 894990

Keats Festival: Anonymity & the Priewinning Poem at Keats House Museum presented by The Poetry Society, Tuesday 6.30-9pm 28 May 2013
Patricia McCarthy, Jane Draycott and Pascale Petit are winners in this year’s National Poetry Competition. They read together, and discuss the liberations of anonymity, exploring how poems can escape their authors. Presented by the Poetry Society.
The Nightingale Room, Keats House, 10 Keats Grove London NW3 2RR
£5 (£4 Poetry Society members)
All events at the Keats Festival must be booked in advance by calling 020 7332 3868 or emailing keatshouse@cityoflondon.gov.uk and for more information about Keats House, visit www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/keatshousehampstead

Poetry Workshops for Walthamstow Station 10.30 - 16.00 Saturday 8th June OR Sunday 9th June
Venue: William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow, London, E17 4PP
FREE but must book in advance. To book, please contact samantha@artprojectsltd.com or call 020 7093 4626 (open only to Waltham Forest residents)
Walthamstow Central Station is undergoing a transformation. As part of this exciting development, Solum Regeneration intends to create a piece of public art at the heart of the new station square. This will incorporate poetry from local residents. The poetry will be developed at workshops hosted by local poet Pascale Petit. Please do attend if you would like to have your poems considered.
 

Advanced Poetry Workshop for The Poetry School Monday June 10th until Monday July 8th
Pascale will lead two advanced poetry workshops, Mondays 4-6pm and 7-9pm
The Poetry School, Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX
Tel: 0207 582 1679 Email: administration@poetryschool.com
Book here for the afternoon session and here for the evening

Reading for Frida Kahlo's birthday, Voodoo Café Mexican Café Bar, Darlington, 7.30pm, Saturday 6 July 2013
84 Skinnergate, Darlington DL3 7LX Phone 01325 467555
£5, to book tickets click here http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/5365117210#

This course will develop creativity and free the imagination through women surrealists’ art and practices. Whether you are a poet, prose writer, visual artist, or just interested in the potential of surrealism to energise your work, this course will help you find an authentic voice for a sustained art practice.

Selected Past Events

Pascale went to Shanghai in Dec 2011 to take part in a translation project as Visiting Poetry Fellow at Fudan University. Read her account on UEA's New Writing Net: http://www.newwriting.net/writing/translation/chinese-water-and-bronze-demons

Hear Pascale talking with Debbie Taylor of Mslexia about poetry phobia and reading from What the Water Gave Me on Woman's Hour BBC Radio 4  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012wzfd

Black Lawrence Press published the US edition of What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo
http://www.blacklawrence.com/Petit.html

TS Eliot Prize: Listen to Pascale Petit's reading in the Royal Festival Hall for the Shortlist Readings, on the Poetry Book Society website

Listen to two poems from TS Eliot Prize shortlisted What the Water Gave Me on BBC Radio 4's Today programme website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9361000/9361532.stm

     

   
Photo credit Dafna Kaplan
Sha'ar International Poetry Festival 29–31 October 2009 Israel Poetry from the Conflict Zone
at The Arabic-Hebrew Theatre, Jaffa
http://www.helicon.org.il/

Yellow Mountain Poetry Festival in UK

  
Poetry of Yellow Mountain – Purcell Room, South Bank Centre
Part Two of English/Chinese Yellow Mountain (Huangshan) poetry festival

 
Part One of Yellow Mountain festival in Huangshan, Anhui Province, China

The British Council's New Silk Road, Kazahkstan

Tobias Hill and Pascale Petit led workshops with 28 Kazakh and Uzbek writers Almaty, Kazakhstan

   
Pratik Launch at Nepal Tourism Board, Kathmandu   Machapuchere (Fishtail) Mountain on Annapurna Trek