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We are thrilled to welcome back Pascale Petit to the Exeter Custom House, for a reading from her latest poetry collection Beast.
About Beast
Mythic and familial beasts roam the swamps and moors of Pascale Petits Beast. These spirits of the wild haunt the Camargue of Provence, the limestone Causses and gorges of the Languedoc, Indian tiger forests, the Amazon rainforest, and her home by Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Some of these remote places are vestiges of earths pristine habitats, while other wildernesses are encaged in cellars of Paris, along with the worlds last species. Their essence is evoked in lithe and luxurious lines sometimes compressed as a trapped animal.
An estranged father reappears as a hunter, while Maman is an orb spider or a grand piano; both are predators. And there are earthly beasts wild horses and bulls, lammergeiers, bee-eaters and catfish, remnants of a vanishing natural world. Beast asks if survival is possible in an abusive family and on an abused home planet, with trials such as climate change, childhood trauma and war. These poems face difficult challenges and insist that making art is an act of love and hope, and there are joyful lyrics celebrating the ineffable beauty of endangered species.
About Pascale Petit
Pascale Petitwas born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales and lives in Cornwall. She is of French, Welsh, and Indian heritage. Her ninth collection,Beast, is published by Bloodaxe in 2025, it won an Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors while in progress. Her eighth collection,Tiger Girl(2020), won an RSL Literature Matters Award and a poem from the book won the 2020 Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize.Tiger Girlwas shortlisted for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection and for Wales Book of the Year 2021. Her seventh collectionMama Amazonica(Bloodaxe, 2017), a Poetry Book Society Choice, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2018, the inaugural Laurel Prize 2020, and was shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018.
Her novel My Hummingbird Father was published by Salt in 2024.
| Ticket Type | Ticket Tariff |
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| Standard | £4.00 |
Note: Prices are a guide only and may change on a daily basis.
| Quay Words presents Pascale Petit: Beast (14 May 2025) | ||
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| Day | Times | |
| Wednesday | 18:30 | |
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