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Pascale Petit’s eighth collection, Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe Books, 2020), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and for Wales Book of the Year. Her seventh collection, Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe Books, 2017), won the inaugural Laurel Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. Her debut novel, My Hummingbird Father, was published by Salt in 2024, and her ninth collection, Beast, published by Bloodaxe in 2025, won an Arthur Welton award. She was a co-founding tutor of The Poetry School and taught popular poetry courses at Tate Modern for nine years.