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The Huntress
Pascale PetitSHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE
An outstanding new volume from this popular poet, follow-up to the best-selling The Zoo Father.
Pascale Petit’s last collection, The Zoo Father, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes, and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She was selected as one of the Poetry Society’s Next Generation Poets.
In Pascale Petit’s highly-charged third collection, a daughter is haunted by her mentally ill mother, and a painful childhood is re-imagined through a series of remarkable and passionate transformations. The feared mother is a rattlesnake, an Aztec goddess, a Tibetan singing bowl, a stalagmite, a praying mantis, a ghost orchid. These culminate in a long central poem where the daughter escapes her huntress as a cosmic stag.
Underlying these poems is an intense mystical vision that lifts the dark material of the subject matter above the merely personal. A powerful follow-up to the highly acclaimed The Zoo Father.
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"No other British poet I am aware of can match the powerful mythic imagination of Pascale Petit. The mother figure in her new collection The Huntress (Seren) appears as a ghost orchid, a rattlesnake, as geological forms and feathered Amerindian goddesses, all deeply imagined in perfect dreamlight focus. Baroque sinuosity seems a matter of fevered family relations, with a haunting mystical quality interfused." Les Murray – Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year
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