This event will take place on Zoom. It will begin at 7.30pm. Please book tickets and an Open Mic slot through the Eventbrite Link which will appear on our Home Page around ten days before the date.
Pascale Petit was born in Paris and lives in Cornwall, she is of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. Her debut novel, My Hummingbird Father, was published by Salt in 2024. She has published eight 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 and was the Poetry Book Society Choice. Her eighth, Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe, 2020), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and for Wales Book of the Year. Her ninth collection, Beast, published by Bloodaxe in April 2025, won a Society of Authors Arthur Welton Award while in progress.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DIENSEN PAMBEN.
Simon Maddrell’s poems appear in publications including Acumen, AMBIT, Butcher’s Dog,Magma, Poetry Wales, Stand, The Moth, The Rialto, Under the Radar.
Simon’s pamphlets:
2020 –– Throatbone, UnCollected Press; Queerfella, which jointly-won The Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition.
2023 –– Isle of Sin, Polari Press; The Whole Island, Valley Press.
2024 –– a finger in derek jarman’s mouth, Polari Press.
2025 –– Patient L1, Polari Press.
Find them on X @QueerManxPoet and @simonmaddrell everywhere else