A event held at St George's Bristol on Saturday 26th April. The event starts at 12:00.
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Date: Saturday 26th April 2025
Venue: St. George’s Bristol (Glass Studio)
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Tickets: £8 (£10 solidarity, £5 concessions)
Into the Wild: Workshop with Pascale Petit
How can we keep our real and imaginary wildernesses and their creatures safe, so that we see with wonder and write into the deep? Pascale will share her own poems that venture into personal and planetary hinterlands, and we will be inspired by a bestiary of other poems and contemporary images to help us write into the wild. As the artist Ai Weiwei said, ‘protection of endangered animals is a kind of self-love, without which we would all be living in a savage land’.
Pascale Petit:
Pascale Petit was born in Paris and lives in Cornwall, she is of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. Her ninth collection, Beast, published by Bloodaxe in 2025, won an Arthur Welton Award while in progress and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her debut novel, My Hummingbird Father, was published by Salt in 2024. She has published eight earlier poetry collections, four of which were shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.
Her seventh, Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe, 2017), won the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the inaugural Laurel Prize. Her eighth, Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe, 2020), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and for Wales Book of the Year. Trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art, she spent the first part of her life as a visual artist and was a co-founding tutor of The Poetry School. In 2018 she was elected as a Royal Society of Literature Fellow.
Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2025
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All Lyra Fest venues are wheelchair accessible. Our full 2025 Access Information Pack is available at www.lyrafest.com.
Date: Saturday 26th April 2025
Venue: St. George’s Bristol (Glass Studio)
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Tickets: £8 (£10 solidarity, £5 concessions)
Into the Wild: Workshop with Pascale Petit
How can we keep our real and imaginary wildernesses and their creatures safe, so that we see with wonder and write into the deep? Pascale will share her own poems that venture into personal and planetary hinterlands, and we will be inspired by a bestiary of other poems and contemporary images to help us write into the wild. As the artist Ai Weiwei said, ‘protection of endangered animals is a kind of self-love, without which we would all be living in a savage land’.
Pascale Petit:
Pascale Petit was born in Paris and lives in Cornwall, she is of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. Her ninth collection, Beast, published by Bloodaxe in 2025, won an Arthur Welton Award while in progress and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her debut novel, My Hummingbird Father, was published by Salt in 2024. She has published eight earlier poetry collections, four of which were shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.
Her seventh, Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe, 2017), won the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the inaugural Laurel Prize. Her eighth, Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe, 2020), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and for Wales Book of the Year. Trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art, she spent the first part of her life as a visual artist and was a co-founding tutor of The Poetry School. In 2018 she was elected as a Royal Society of Literature Fellow.
Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2025
#LyraFest
Filters:
Live Event ✓
Workshop ✓
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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