Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales and lives in Cornwall. She is of French/Welsh/Indian heritage. Her eighth collection, Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe Books, 2020), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, won an RSL Literature Matters award while in progress, and a poem from the book won the Keats-Shelley Prize. Her seventh collection, Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe Books, 2017), won the inaugural Laurel Prize, and the RSL's Ondaatje Prize. Four previous collections were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Petit is widely translated and travelled, particularly in the Amazon rainforest and India.

Other poems by Pascale Petit in Verse Daily:
April 12, 2021:   "To be spotlit" "To be spotlit..."
May 2, 2018:   "The Hummingbird Nest" "I bring you a hummingbird's nest, woven..."
December 21, 2017:   "Scarlet Macaws" "The scarlet macaws want their red back..."
September 19, 2010:   "What the Water Gave Me (VI)" "This is how it is at the end..."

Books by Pascale Petit:

Other poems on the web by Pascale Petit:
Two poems
"Corpse Flower"
"Black Jaguar at Midnight"
Six poems
"What the Water Gave Me (VI)"
"Caracal"
Two poems
"Fauverie - Emmanuel"
Three poems
Five poems
"Jaguar Girl"
"The Children's Asylum"
"My Wolverine"
Nine poems
Three poems
"King Vultures"

Pascale Petit's Website.

Pascale Petit According to Wikipedia.

Pascale Petit on Twitter.

About Tiger Girl:

"No one writing in English today comes anywhere near the exuberance of Pascale Petit. Rarely has the personal and environmental lament found such imaginative fusion, such outlandish and shocking expression that is at once spectacularly vigorous, intimate and heartbroken.'"
— Daljit Nagra