You have to write for the love, because the publishing process and response can be upsetting, and the accolades so few (especially for poetry) yet there are collections I love that received little attention. But that creative rush is very special – no one can take it away

This afternoon we start with poetry and readings in the church from award winning poets Pascale Petit and Katrina Naomi #northcornwallbookfestival

In @pascalepetit.bsky.social's final, fourth, poem, What Eagle Saw, Petit turns her focus skyward. The eagle hovers above the neonatal ward, her vision both forensic and mythic, maternal and ecological. @rsliterature.bsky.social aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/what-eagle...

Just added to @pascalepetit.bsky.social Poetic Voice feature in The Book Bag… A micro review with the usual book bag playlist… paulwritespoems.com/2025/09/01/t...

📖 sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Thank you, Daljit Nagra for choosing Beast as BBC Radio 4 Poetry Extra’s Book of the Month for September. Today at 7am, 12 noon & again at 6pm he reads another poem from my collection Beast, the poem is ‘Murmurations at Roughtor’, at the end of the programme www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

In Catfish, Pascale Petit’s third poem, we are taken back to the very beginning: the hospital ward, the incubator, the first wound of birth. Yet the poem refuses any clinical language. Ihttps://aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/catfish-by-pascale-petit

aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/catfish-by... @rsliterature.bsky.social @pascalepetit.bsky.social

September news: New books from @poetclare.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social & @emiliejelinek.bsky.social; prize news for Matthew Caley, Kris Johnson & Niall Campbell; radio & podcasts for @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Greta Stoddart; Ruth Fainlight film premiere. mailchi.mp/263b340dbcf3...

My Hummingbird Father is one year old today! Published 15 Sept 2024. I’d like to thank everyone who made it happen, who supported my first novel & especially all the readers & reviewers. Massive thanks @chrisemery.me and Jen @saltpublishing.com and to my agent @joncurzon.bsky.social

Well that’s incredible, I wrote 24 poems in 27 days in Paris, one of which is 7 pages and one day when zi wrote 7! I’m halfway through 10th collection. Tomorrow I return with a one day general strike in Paris & tube strike in London! Hope I get home to Cornwall. wish me luck

A lovely surprise: Beast is Daljit Nagra’s Book of the Month for September for BBC Radio 4 Extra’s Poetry Extra. Yesterday he read my poem ‘The Pelts of Animals’, at the end of the programme, and later in the month he’ll read another poem from Beast. You can listen here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

That’s ridiculous I wrote first drafts of seven poems today and I’d had a bad night and didn’t feel well. Now have one third (at least) of tenth collection!

Well here we are. September. So that means it's time to share another Poetic Voice. This month I am thrilled and amazed to be sharing the work of... A multi-prize-winning poet and genuine great of the poetry community. The excellent Pascale Petit.

So happy to feature the excellent @pascalepetit.bsky.social as part of The Book Bag: Poetic Voices monthly feature. It is a real honour 📚💼

Aramis and Simara the jaguars are still in love and she’s the boss, he follows her around. He’s 14 now, I remember him when he arrived at the Jardin des Plantes Fauverie aged 2. Vincennes Zoo enclosure not big enough but they have each other.

I’m writing my 10th collection. The title poem’s a long one in haiku form & I started it months ago but had neither time nor headspace to continue. Spent a whole yr teaching & promoting 2 new books. Excited to say I’ve now written 7 key poems in. Paris & solitude does that for me. I am so happy!

Good morning! Beast could do with more ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ratings / reviews, if you read it and enjoyed it I’d be so grateful, poetry does not get many and they really help poets sell books 📚 www.amazon.co.uk/Beast-Pascal...

The view from my tiny balcony in the attic. I’m on top 5th floor opposite main entrance to Sorbonne, Marie et Pierre Curie campus. 5 mins walk from Jardin des Plantes. I’ve bought a year pass to zoos & museums £62 which means I can walk there everyday especially in the Ménagerie. There’s no lift!

I'll be reading at #northcornwallbookfestival on Sat 27 Sept with @pascalepetit.bsky.social & running a workshop on writing from the body on Sun 28 at 10 am. Booking open now via #endelientaarts endelienta.org.uk/whats-on/ncb... #poetry #batteryrocks #danceasif #beast #poetryincornwall #festival

Almost reached Paddington, journey from Cornwall to London takes twice as long as Eurostar to Paris, my next destination! Severe weather warning there, heatwave, let’s see if I survive attic with no air con but tiny balcony

I’ll be reading from My Hummingbird Father & Beast on 27 Sept for #northcornwallbookfestival at 1pm, with @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social do come along, bookings open. Doing a fiction workshop at 3:45 @saltpublishing.com @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social endelienta.org.uk/whats-on/ncb...

Take a look inside our 2026 Yearbooks! There's an abundance of writing and publishing guidance inside our 2026 editions, and we've published a selection of abridged articles from some of the authors and industry professionals who've contributed. Enjoy! www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/intro...

Thrilled to have ‘Self-Portrait with Fire Ants’ in this special anthology Nature Matters edited by @monaarshiwrites.bsky.social & @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social a go-to text for teaching. Published by @faberbooks.bsky.social My poem is from my 2nd collection The Zoo Father @serenbooks.bsky.social

apologies for slow replies atm some stuff going on, and much teaching. Hope you’re all well x

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The emotionally precarious life of a poet… @writersandartists.bsky.social have released an excerpt from my essay in their 2026 edition: ‘Perseverance in Getting Poetry Published’ www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/perse...

Some interesting work referenced here…. Cc @billymills.bsky.social and great to see the USA finding @pascalepetit.bsky.social

July news: shorturl.at/RkCCz @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social & @niallpoetry.bsky.social shortlisted for @forwardprizes.bsky.social; @pascalepetit.bsky.social on #PoetryPlease; #FleurAdcock's Dragon Talk on #AGoodRead; #JaneCommane & #KayceeHill @societyofauthors.bsky.social awards; & much more!

Poem of the Day: Her Glasses by Pascale Petit poemsontheunderground.org/her-glasses

A fab week full of poetry & wildlife at Totleigh Barton - fantastic discussions & prompts from tutors @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Will Harris, & guest reader @ellafrears.bsky.social @arvonfoundation.bsky.social

Join the Poetry Book Society for a lively online PBS Summer Showcase on 22nd July to celebrate the launch of their Summer Bulletin from 7-8pm BST on YouTube. They'll be joined by PBS Summer Choice Fiona Benson and Recommendations Pascale Petit and Isabelle Baafi reading live from (...)

Tomorrow I’m co tutoring @arvon course at Totleigh with Will Harris, a version of the Lyric Self course we taught at Lumb two years ago. Almost packed my boxes of tricks. it’s one hour by car so the easiest journey of the Arvons. Our guest reader is the divine @ellafrears.bsky.social

I think I’m 39 here, sanding a polyester resin cast figure that was covered in grime from storage, a friend stopped to take these shots

Thank you @scotsman.com @kevwilliamson.bsky.social @byleaveswelive.bsky.social for featuring my poem ‘A Mother Sings’ as Poem of the Week

'Beast is an intense, lyrical work which asks difficult questions' 'A Mother Sings' from @pascalepetit.bsky.social's ninth collection #Beast was featured as Poem of the Week in @scotsman.com magazine of 5 July. With thanks to @byleaveswelive.bsky.social.

Thank you for reading both! Makes it worthwhile

This is going to be wondrous, lucky Totnes, do go if you can. How Animals Heal Us is one of my favourite books of all time.

'This gripping collection from Petit [...] teams with surprises' - @poetmorgan.bsky.social, in @literaryhub.bsky.social, on @pascalepetit.bsky.social's #Beast, one of seven poetry books recommended for July. Beast is distributed in the US @consortiumbooks.bsky.social. lithub.com/ghetto-koans...

'I want the joy of life to come through in my poems.' Our 4th episode of sub(VERSE)ive features renowned poet @pascalepetit.bsky.social‬, discussing her ninth poetry collection, BEAST (pub. by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social)‬ with Prerana Kumar. Watch the full episode now on YouTube: buff.ly/YA9dExv

Lovely edition of Poetry Please on 24 June featuring poems chosen by guest poet @pascalepetit.bsky.social. Pascale introduced a poem by Moniza Alvi at 22:16 and one by @niallpoetry.bsky.social at 5:23 (read by Niall). She read from her new collection Beast at 10:18. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I loved listening to this episode of 'Poetry Please' with @pascalepetit.bsky.social. The first poem, Edwin Muir's 'The Horses', hit me so hard I started crying (anyone who saw me out with the dog may have wondered what could be wrong with me). Excellent choice of poems! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

‘When the teacher read out ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, I think I was sixteen then, I instantly knew I wanted to be a poet…’ the wonderful @pascalepetit.bsky.social . Samuel West reading #Keats = a brilliant half hour of #poetry #PoetryPlease www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Pascale Petit (@pascalepetit.bsky.social) is Roger McGough's guest on Poetry Please today, 24 June. She has chosen poems requested by listeners, including work by @niallpoetry.bsky.social and #MonizaAlvi. Tune in to BBC Radio 4 📻 at 4pm, or listen later. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Poetry Pascale Petit Poetry Please Tue 16:00 BBC Radio 4 Roger Mcgough talks to French British poet @pascalepetit.bsky.social‬ as she chooses her favourites from the poems requested by listeners. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Reading this fascinating essay-poem by @pascalepetit.bsky.social - a response to (and dialogue with) the incredible spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois @tate.bsky.social psyche.co/ideas/a-conv... #ekphrasis #ekphrastic #poetry #art

Such a brilliant evening at the Red Door Poets Summer Party- enormous thanks to all who came and our amazing readers Pascale Petit, Richard Scott and KatrinaNaomi @reddoorpoets.bsky.social @thealchemyspoon.bsky.social

My (2) #LibraryReadingWed @libraryreads.bsky.social for today are both poetry. BLOOD WOLF MOON by Elise Paschen, pub'd in April from @redhenpress.bsky.social and BEAST by Pascale Petit, due out in July from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social. Loved both. Please keep giving poetry a try. It's worth it.