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Fauverie

Fauverie

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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae casgliad newydd o gerddi Pascale Petit yn cario enw'r sŵ ym Mharis sy'n aflonyddu ar ei dychymyg. Wrth galon y gyfrol mae trawma plentyndod a hanes tad sy'n marw, ond y sŵ ei hun sy'n hawlio'r llwyfan, lle mae'r jagwar du Aramis a'r anifeiliaid gwyllt yn llywodraethu.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Fauverie , the new Seren poetry collection by Pascale Petit is named after the Parisian zoo that haunts her imagination. This book has childhood trauma and a dying father at its heart, while Paris takes centre stage, a theatre haunted by Aramis the black jaguar and the wild animals of the menagerie.

Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details

ISBN 13
9781781721681
Gwales Code
gwales.com.9781781721681
Gwerthwr / Vendor
Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Long Title
Fauverie
Awdur / Author
Petit, Pascale
Current Price ex VAT
£9.99
Current Price inc VAT
£9.99
Availability Status (EN)
Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
Availability Status (CY)
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Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
2014-09-18
Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
Seren
Media Type (EN)
Paperback / softback
Media Type (CY)
Clawr meddal
Pages
72 pages
Language Code
English
Categori / Category
CY: Barddoniaeth (yn Saesneg) | EN: Poetry (in English)
Is-gategori / Subcategory
CY: Beirdd Unigol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Individual Poets (in English)

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales and lives in London. She has published six collections. Five poems from her latest book Fauverie won the 2013 Manchester Poetry Prize. Her fifth collection, What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo, was shortlisted for both the TS Eliot Prize and Wales Book of the Year. This book has gone into a number of reprintings and was Jackie Kay's Book of the Year in the Observer. Black Lawrence Press published a US edition in 2011. Three of Pascale's collections have been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and were also Books of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement, Observer and the Independent. Her second collection The Zoo Father was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and was published in Mexico in a bilingual edition. A poem from it was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. Her selected poems are published in China. In 2004 the Poetry Book Society selected Petit as one of the Next Generation Poets. She has won numerous awards, including five from Arts Council England, and regularly appears in major festivals. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life. She is widely travelled, including in the Venezuelan Amazon, China and Nepal. She has worked as Poetry Editor for Poetry London and currently tutors popular poetry courses at Tate Modern and for The Poetry School.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

The Fauverie of this book is the big-cat house in the Jardin des Plantes zoo. But the word also evokes the Fauves, 'primitive' painters who used raw colour straight from the tube. Like The Zoo Father, Petit's acclaimed second collection, this volume has childhood trauma and a dying father at its heart, while Paris takes centre stage - a city savage as the Amazon, haunted by Aramis the black jaguar and a menagerie of wild animals. Transforming childhood horrors to ultimately mourn a lost parent, Fauverie redeems the darker forces of human nature while celebrating the ferocity and grace of endangered species.

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