We are delighted to announce Pascale Petit as our Summer 2025 Recommendation
Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales, and now lives in Cornwall. She is of French, Welsh, and Indian heritage.
Her seventh collection Mama Amazonica (2017), a Poetry Book Society Choice, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize and The Laurel Prize. Her eighth, Tiger Girl (2020), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and for the English language poetry category of Wales Book of the Year 2021. Four of her earlier six collections were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, while a portfolio from Fauverie won the Manchester Poetry Prize. Her ninth collection Beast (2025) is her third publication with Bloodaxe Books.
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