Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales and lives in London. In 2004 the Poetry Book Society and Arts Council named her as one of the Next Generation Poets. She has published three full-length poetry collections. Her last two, The Zoo Father (Seren, 2001) and The Huntress (Seren, 2005), were both shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and were both Books of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement. She was a co-founder of Poetry London, its Poetry Editor from 1989 to 2005, and is a co-founding tutor of The Poetry School. Her poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and published in journals in the UK, the US and Australia; including Poetry Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and Quadrant. They have been translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Lithuanian, Spanish, Farsi, Japanese, Portuguese, German, Dutch and Romanian. Pascale has travelled extensively in the Venezuelan Amazon. She originally trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art.

You can read Petit’s work online in several places:

• Her own Web site has a sampling of new poems and several translations she has done from Chinese poets, plus selected pieces from The Huntress, The Zoo Father & The Wounded Deer.
• She also has a page at poetry pf, with five poems altogether: Three Horses,” “The Strait-Jackets,” “Carving the Dead Elm of Le Caylar,” “Remembrance of an Open Wound” & “The Ant Glove.”
• Free Verse has published two of Petit’s poems: “The Flying Bed” in its Spring 2003 issue & “Unearthly Languages” in Spring 2005.
• A large number of her poems have appeared in Quadrant, among them “The Limestone Madonna in the Grotte des Demoiselles” in the March 2005 issue, & “The Hudson Remembers” in the September 2006 issue.

To purchase Petit’s books, use these shopping links:

• Heart of a Deer (Enitharmon Press, 1999)
  
• The Zoo Father (Seren, 2002)
  
• The Huntress (Seren, 2006)
  

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