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Pascale’s 2024 Year in Books
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Pascale Petit
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What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo
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2010
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6 editions
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Mama Amazonica
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Tiger Girl
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2020
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3 editions
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The Zoo Father
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2002
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Fauverie
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2014
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My Hummingbird Father
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The Huntress
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2006
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5 editions
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The Treekeeper's Tale
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2008
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3 editions
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The Wounded Deer: Fourteen Poems After Frida Kahlo
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2005
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Heart of a Deer
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1999
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Beast of Bodmin - my commissioned poem for Cornwall AONB
When my seventh poetry collection, Mama Amazonica, won Simon Armitage's inaugural Laurel Prize, I received an extra gift – a commission to write a poem about my favourite Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain. I knew immediately I would write about Bodmin Moor – I now live in a deep valley just beneath the south-east corner of it. Every horse-lane bordered by high Cornish hedges opens to v
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“I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, / my shivering bird heart / caught”
― What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo
― What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo
“Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs.”
― What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo
― What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo
“I think of the coal grease black dust and memories that burn slow as anthracite how some colours don’t fade however deep they’re buried how even a dowry of rags smouldering in a box can flare in a winter grate and how to own the country of her birth a woman might have to wear a fire”
― Tiger Girl
― Tiger Girl
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“Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs.”
― What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo
― What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo
“I think of the coal grease black dust and memories that burn slow as anthracite how some colours don’t fade however deep they’re buried how even a dowry of rags smouldering in a box can flare in a winter grate and how to own the country of her birth a woman might have to wear a fire”
― Tiger Girl
― Tiger Girl
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Thanks for the ADD, Pascale - I notice we share an interest in the exceptional Frida.I must get around to buying some of your collections.
You will find though that I am far more active on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/cjheyworth
than anywhere else, and I am sadly not at all prolific.
I must get around to buying some of your collections.
You will find though that I am far more active on Faceboo..."
Thanks for accepting. I think we must already be friends on Facebook, I will check. Pleased to meet another Frida fan. I hope you'll enjoy What the Water Gave Me.