Pascale Petit has published four poetry
collections including The Huntress and The Zoo
Father, which were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot
Prize and were both books of the year in The Times
Literary Supplement. Her latest collection is The
Treekeeper’s Tale (2008) and forthcoming in May 2010,
What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida
Kahlo, all from Seren. The Poetry Book Society and
Arts Council named her as one of the Next Generation Poets in
2004. A bilingual edition of The Zoo Father is
published in Mexico and her poems are translated into many
languages. In 2008 she took part in the Yellow Mountain Poetry
Festival in China and the British Council’s New Silk Road
project in Kazakhstan. She originally trained as a sculptor at
the Royal College of Art and has worked as editor of Poetry
London. She is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Middlesex
University and tutors for Oxford University, The Poetry School
and Tate Modern.
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