Pascale Petit, Angela France, Pey Oh. Chaired by Alycia Primohamed & Hannah Copley. Held at Holy Trinity Church.
Pascale Petit was born in Paris and lives in Cornwall. She has published nine poetry collections, four of which were shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Her ninth, Beast (Bloodaxe, 2025, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her eighth, Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe, 2020), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and for Wales Book of the Year. Her seventh, Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe, 2017), won the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the inaugural Laurel Prize for eco-poetry and was the Poetry Book Society Choice. Her debut novel, My Hummingbird Father, was published by Salt in 2024.
Angela France has had poems published in leading journals and has been anthologised a number of times. Her fifth collection, Terminarchy, came out July 2021 with Nine Arches Press. Angela teaches at the University of Gloucestershire and in various community settings. She runs a reading series in Cheltenham, ‘Buzzwords’.
Pey Oh (she/her) is a Bath-based poet from Malaysia. Her debut pamphlet, Pictograph, was published by Flarestack Poetry in 2018. Her recent work can be found in harana poetry, Butcher’s Dog, Long Poem Magazine, Iamb, Berlinlit and Propel Magazine. A Legitimate Snack, Bagua was out with Broken Sleep Books in 2021. She is a Sky Arts Royal Society of Literature Poetry winner 2021.
Alycia Pirmohamed is the author of the debut poetry collection, Another Way to Split Water, which was published by Polygon (UK) and YesYes Books (US) in 2022. Her debut nonfiction book, Shorelines: Memory, migration, and the selves we become, won the Nan Shepherd Prize and is forthcoming with Canongate in 2026. Then the Lake Shifts, Alycia’s second collection of poetry, is forthcoming in 2027. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Pushcart Prize, the CBC Poetry Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, and in 2026, she was awarded the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship. Alycia is the co-founder of the Scottish BPOC Writers Network, and she currently teaches on the Creative Writing master’s programme at the University of Cambridge.
Hannah Copley’s poetry includes Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry) shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024, and Speculum (Broken Sleep Books). She was winner of the 2019 Newcastle Poetry Prize for ‘Juice’ and winner of the 2018 YorkMix/York Literature Festival Poetry Prize for ‘Haworth, 1855’. Hannah is an Editor at Stand magazine and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Westminster. Hannah collaborated with Alycia Pirmohamed on ‘Hertz,’ a DIRT publication from Dialect Press.
Pascale Petit, Angela France, Pey Oh. Chaired by Alycia Primohamed & Hannah Copley. Held at Holy Trinity Church.
Pascale Petit was born in Paris and lives in Cornwall. She has published nine poetry collections, four of which were shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Her ninth, Beast (Bloodaxe, 2025, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her eighth, Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe, 2020), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and for Wales Book of the Year. Her seventh, Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe, 2017), won the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the inaugural Laurel Prize for eco-poetry and was the Poetry Book Society Choice. Her debut novel, My Hummingbird Father, was published by Salt in 2024.
Angela France has had poems published in leading journals and has been anthologised a number of times. Her fifth collection, Terminarchy, came out July 2021 with Nine Arches Press. Angela teaches at the University of Gloucestershire and in various community settings. She runs a reading series in Cheltenham, ‘Buzzwords’.
Pey Oh (she/her) is a Bath-based poet from Malaysia. Her debut pamphlet, Pictograph, was published by Flarestack Poetry in 2018. Her recent work can be found in harana poetry, Butcher’s Dog, Long Poem Magazine, Iamb, Berlinlit and Propel Magazine. A Legitimate Snack, Bagua was out with Broken Sleep Books in 2021. She is a Sky Arts Royal Society of Literature Poetry winner 2021.
Alycia Pirmohamed is the author of the debut poetry collection, Another Way to Split Water, which was published by Polygon (UK) and YesYes Books (US) in 2022. Her debut nonfiction book, Shorelines: Memory, migration, and the selves we become, won the Nan Shepherd Prize and is forthcoming with Canongate in 2026. Then the Lake Shifts, Alycia’s second collection of poetry, is forthcoming in 2027. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Pushcart Prize, the CBC Poetry Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, and in 2026, she was awarded the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship. Alycia is the co-founder of the Scottish BPOC Writers Network, and she currently teaches on the Creative Writing master’s programme at the University of Cambridge.
Hannah Copley’s poetry includes Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry) shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024, and Speculum (Broken Sleep Books). She was winner of the 2019 Newcastle Poetry Prize for ‘Juice’ and winner of the 2018 YorkMix/York Literature Festival Poetry Prize for ‘Haworth, 1855’. Hannah is an Editor at Stand magazine and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Westminster. Hannah collaborated with Alycia Pirmohamed on ‘Hertz,’ a DIRT publication from Dialect Press.
