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Two new poems won a prize!
Apr 29
Congratulations to Pascale Petit 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, Pascale was also runner-up for the same award.
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ALT Photographs by Maddmann Photography. The photo on the left shows Pascale Petit receiving the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize 2025-2026 from Chair of Judges Rupert Christiansen. The photo on the right is of Pascale pictured at the Keats-Shelley Award Ceremony in London.
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Weβre delighted to welcome #PascalePetit to the #ArtSonnetChain, especially as sheβs not only written a fine sonnet, but let it give rise in turn to an artwork.
Read the Ice Tree Sonnet (and view the Ice Tree Canopy) here:
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#NewBootsAndPantisocracies
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24 Jul 2017
'The abuse of women & children is a worldwide problem, as is the exploitation of nature' Pascale Petit on Mama Amazonica #PBSAutumnChoice
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1 Sep 2020
βIt is always daytime, even at night/ dream-sun pouring through the skylightsβ
- Pascale Petit, from her new collection βTiger Girlβ @pascalepoet
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Fond memories of attending a poetry writing retreat many moons ago by the Canal du Midi tutored by the wonderful Pascale Petit. #canaldumidi #writingretreat #poetry
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14 Aug 2017
The Autumn Bulletin is here featuring our Autumn Choice Pascale Petit & many more. Copies will be on their way to members later this week!
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30 Sep 2017
'By dawn she closes her petals' - Pascale Petit reads from PBS Choice Mama Amazonica #poetrybookfair2017 #pbspresents
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13 Jan 2016
Great speech by TS Eliot Prize judge Pascale Petit on all ten shortlisted collections: poetrybooks.co.uk/projects/4β¦
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10 Aug 2020
βInside, packed in cloth strait-jackets/ lie forty live hummingbirds/tied down in rowsβ
- this morning, returning to one of my favourite Pascale Petit poems @pascalepoet
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28 Sep 2017
... if I think
of your leash and jewelled collar,
and of your bids for freedom -
I'd want to meet the artist
- Pascale Petit @PoetryDayUK
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Jun 5
Congratulations to Wasafiri friend @pascalepoet, 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 π
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Lovely to see this new poem by @pascalepoet in the @ObserverUK last Sunday, illustrated by @chrisriddell50.
Thank you to the Observer for publishing my new poem βNettle Dressβ 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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Thank you to the Observer for publishing my new poem βNettle Dressβ 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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And our 2026 Survey of Poets: @r_vallen, @jorie_graham, Lavinia Greenlaw, Ishion Hutchinson, Luke Kennard, @NickMakoha, Ange Mlinko, Paul Muldoon, Don Paterson, @pascalepoet, @CamilleRalphs_, Sam Riviere, A. E. Stallings, @JTaylorTrash and Hugo Williams.
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And our 2026 Survey of Poets: @r_vallen, @jorie_graham, Lavinia Greenlaw, Ishion Hutchinson, Luke Kennard, @NickMakoha, Ange Mlinko, Paul Muldoon, Don Paterson, @pascalepoet, @CamilleRalphs_, Sam Riviere, A. E. Stallings, @JTaylorTrash and Hugo Williams.
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May 15
May news: shorturl.at/XmkXf
New books by #TishaniDoshi, @pswordwoman & #JenniferLeeTsai; online launch 19/05; @pascalepoet wins #KeatsShelleyPoetryPrize; Bloodaxe at @LedburyPoetry; @LilyBlacksell & @MsPollyClark reviewed @thetimes; #RitaAnnHiggins reviews & interviews
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Apr 29
Congratulations to Pascale Petit 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, Pascale was also runner-up for the same award.
bloodaxebooks.com/news?articβ¦
ALT Photographs by Maddmann Photography. The photo on the left shows Pascale Petit receiving the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize 2025-2026 from Chair of Judges Rupert Christiansen. The photo on the right is of Pascale pictured at the Keats-Shelley Award Ceremony in London.
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Apr 29
Many congratulations to all the winners in the Keats-Shelley 2025-2026 awards, especially to @pascalepoet, winner of the Poetry Award.
Pascale Petit 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.
Congratulations to all the winners and highly commended entries in this yearβs Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics prizes. The ceremony was held in the historic rooms at 50 Albemarle Street, with Chair of Judges Rupert Christiansen presiding.
Photo credit: Maddmann Photography
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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 π₯
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