Pascale Petit

Pascale Petit (born 1953), is a French-born British poet. She was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life. She has travelled widely, particularly in the Peruvian and Venezuelan Amazon. She has published seven poetry collections: Heart of a Deer (1998), The Zoo Father (2001), The Huntress (2005), The Treekeeper's Tale (2008), What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo (2010), Fauverie (2014) and Mama Amazonica (2017). She also published a pamphlet of poems The Wounded Deer: Fourteen Poems after Frida Kahlo (2005). Four of her collections were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and her seventh, Mama Amazonica, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize. In 2018 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.