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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My poem ‘Prickly Pears’ 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.bsky.social in 2010

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Hudson Remembers’ I wrote this on the first anniversary of #911

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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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BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Pascale Petit

Roger McGough talks to French British poet Pascale Petit.

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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📢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.

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

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...

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Putting Women Poets on the Map

Help keep a national home for women poets open

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

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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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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

Pictures of book selections. Visit our website to read more.

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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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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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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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!

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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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Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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.

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

'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...

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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!

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I’d love to have a patron, need funding to go to the Amazon for research for my next book. Haha any offers?

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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'

Emerald tentacles of a rainforest canopy after a storm, made from xeroxes of seafans, acrylic paint, inks and apple pencil on photo.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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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sub(VERSE)ive: In Conversation with Pascale Petit

sub(VERSE)ive is an exclusive limited interview series from Wasafiri. Hosted by Prerana Kumar, these conversations showcase established and emerging contemporary poets who are releasing new…

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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!

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

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...

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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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Chrissy Williams @chrissywilliams.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I'm part of this lovely evolving Art Sonnet chain. If you click here you can see the Tishani Doshi sonnet whose final line inspired mine, and up top the @pascalepetit.bsky.social poem drawn from my final line. Lots of women's bodies and transgression: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com

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new boots and pantisocracies

Art Sonnet Chain

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The end of @pascalepetit.bsky.social’s sonnet pivots neatly from sleeping girl to restless birds: …A little girl will sleep in the cloud’s vapour. And, with the song of my tree self, I will guide the migrating birds back down to nest. They have been circling the skies for years, not daring to land.

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We’re delighted to welcome @pascalepetit.bsky.social to the #ArtSonnetChain - she’s not only written a great sonnet but produced a fine related artwork. Read the Ice Tree Sonnet (and view the Ice Tree Canopy) here: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/05/16/a... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies

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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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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 27/04/2026

One of our final #NaPoWriMo prompts comes from poet Pascale Petit. You can find Pascale's writing in many issues of The Poetry Review, where she features as both a poet and a critic. Members of The Poetry Society get full access to our digital archive of the Review - join us at the link in our bio.

A dark burgundy square. A gold picture frame hangs from a chain in the middle of the image. Inside the frame there is text on a white background reading “Write about your experience of looking at a work of art. Use it as a starting point for your own thoughts, an incident or memory, and fly with them. Don’t worry about moving away from the art. Use all the senses and go deep into something you find hard to write about.” Beneath this is the name Pascale Petit. In the top right hand corner is a spiky yellow circle reading Prompt 27 in white text, and along the bottom of the image are the words NaPoWriMo 2026 in white.

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 30/04/2026

Congratulations @pascalepetit.bsky.social winner of the 25-26 Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize!

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Congratulations to @pascalepetit.bsky.social on winning the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize for 'Night Canoe on Lake Sandoval', a poem evoking 'both mood and landscape with rare and refined sensibility'. In a historic first, she was also runner-up for the same award. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

The image shows two photos of Pascale Petit at the Keats-Shelley Prize Ceremony in London. Photos by Maddmann Photography.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Keats Shelley Poetry Prize announced. Congrats to winner @pascalepetit.bsky.social and thanks to judge @notjustdancing.bsky.social Here’s my runner up poem ‘Some Seasonal Adjustments’ keats-shelley.org/prize_entrie...

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I won this year’s Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize for my poem ‘Night Canoe on Lake Sandoval’! Thank you Deryn one of the judges & for these pics of the prize ceremony

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Invisibility: instead of thinking, no one’s interested in my poetry, I remember that delicious time of quietly cooking up a book which no one has yet read. I am working on a collection in the dark, there is solace in this. No one has noticed yet, because it’s too early.

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Another one for your diaries: will be at @lyrafest.com on Sunday 26 April, in the fine company of Romalyn Ante, Katrina Naomi, Chris Emery, and Natalie Linh Bolderston. It'd be fab to see you, come through: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/wat...

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Wonder and Wanderers: A Poetic Journey at Watershed

Date: Sunday 26th April 2026 Venue: Watershed (W3) Time: 15:30 - 17:00 Tickets: £5 / £3 / FREE Booking Link: TBA ✅ Live Streamed (book a ‘Live Stream Ticket’ at checkout) ✅ All Lyra Fest venues ...

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Thank you to Michael Simms for publishing my poem ‘Black Jaguar with Quai Saint Bernard’ on Vox Populi. This poem was my first published in Poetry magazine, in 2014, and is in my 6th collection Fauverie. Aramis was in the Fauverie then and only 2 years old. voxpopulisphere.com?fbclid=IwVER...

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Poems can take time to materialise. I felt there wasn’t hope for a poem I wrote 2 years ago, responding to a sculpture in Lausanne Art Brut collection, trying to capture how it made me feel. But two evenings ago it suddenly expanded into one I’m happy with. I had a fresh angle. Never give up hope

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Bad Betty Live photos from last Friday night, my Nottingham reading from Beast, photo credits to Jade Pharoah. Huge thanks to Jake & Amy at Bad Betty Press and host Bridie Squires, all performers were 🔥

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

On #worldbookday I’m celebrating 10 books I’ve published since I was 44 – 9 poetry collections +1 novel.4 were shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, 1 for Forward Prize, 1 won Laurel & RSL Ondaatje Prize. 2 shortlisted for WBoTY So if you’re in your forties wondering if it will ever happen – it can

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

It’s okay to take time out from writing, to just live and rest, do other work, let your imagination breathe.

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Animals and healing at Resurgence TONIGHT Wednesday 25 February • 7—8.30pm GMT • via Zoom Pascale Petit’s work demonstrates poetry as a kind of shamanism, allowing author and reader to shapeshift. Jay Griffiths’ new book is How Animals Heal Us Buy a FREE ticket www.tickettailor.com/events/there...

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Select tickets – Animals and Healing with Jay Griffiths and Pascal Petit – Zoom

Animals and Healing with Jay Griffiths and Pascal Petit – Zoom, Wed 25 Feb 2026 - An evening with poet Pascale Petit and author Jay Griffiths. Shamans have always said that it is the animals who heal ...

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

if we really loved people we wouldn’t let so many suffer – I am sure our work on earth is to learn love and empathy. Art and poetry helps us in that goal as it’s made from an impulse of love and wonder of the world

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Beast is going to Nottingham! I’ll be reading for Bad Betty Live at the New Art Exchange 6pm Friday 20 March, with Wayne Holloway-Smith, Malaika Kegode, Rick Dove and Hilário Alves. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bad-betty-...

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Bad Betty Live, 20th March

A dynamic night of live poetry and music, showcasing exciting acts from Notts, the UK and beyond in a warm, inclusive setting. BSL signed.

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Have you ever seen a rare and critically endangered Amur leopard cub? Here is Zeya with her mum Lena in the special @dartmoorzoo.bsky.social She is so playful! Spent a magical sunny day watching her and many other treasures, friends I took a few days’ holiday at last

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Excited to share the striking cover of PAIN SONGS by Daniel Sluman. Lyrical, confessional poems exploring the experience of chronic pain & disability, fertility & pregnancy, the ways the body & the world interact & intersect. Ready to pre-order now, out in May. ninearchespress.com/publications...

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

A big thank you @betarish.bsky.social for a very encouraging review of Beast in Under the Radar Issue 36! The flight issue looks ♥️ and can be ordered here: ninearchespress.ecwid.com/Under-the-Ra... @ninearchespress.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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