{"id":8150,"date":"2025-03-11T10:57:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8150"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:55:31","slug":"pascale-petit-2","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/pascale-petit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pascale Petit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pascale Petit 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 in her early career. She published six collections of poetry with Seren, four of which were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, most recently <em>Fauverie\u00a0<\/em>(2014). A portfolio of poems from this book won the 2013 Manchester Poetry Prize. She was selected by the Poetry Book Society as one of the Next Generation Poets in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Since chairing the panel of judges of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2015, her further publications include: <em>Tiger Girl<\/em> (Bloodaxe Books, 2020), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and for the English language poetry category shortlist for Wales Book of the Year 2021; <em>Mama Amazonica<\/em> (Bloodaxe Books, 2017), a Poetry Book Society Choice, shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 and winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2018 and the Laurel Prize 2020. Her ninth collection, <em>Beast<\/em>, published by Bloodaxe in April 2025, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Derrick Kakembo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pascalepetit.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.pascalepetit.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pascale Petit 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 in her early career. She published six collections of poetry with Seren, four of which were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, most recently Fauverie\u00a0(2014). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10775,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8150","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}