Mama Amazonica

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Lleolir Mama Amazonica mewn ward seiciatrig ac yng nghoedwig law yr Amazon, sy'n seilam i anifeiliaid ar fin difodiant. Datgelir stori am fam y bardd sy'n dioddef o broblemau iechyd meddwl ac am ganlyniadau camdriniaeth. Seithfed casgliad o farddoniaeth Pascale Petit.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Mama Amazonica is set in a psychiatric ward and in the Amazon rainforest, an asylum for animals on the brink of extinction. It reveals the story of Pascale Petit's mentally ill mother and the consequences of abuse. Mama Amazonica is Pascale Petit's seventh collection, and her first from Bloodaxe. She was previously published by Seren.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales and lives near Liskeard in Cornwall. She is of French/Welsh/Pakistani heritage. Bloodaxe will publish her seventh collection Mama Amazonica in September 2017. Her sixth, Fauverie (2014), was her fourth to be shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Five poems from the book won the 2013 Manchester Poetry Prize. Her fifth book, What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo , was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize and Wales Book of the Year, and was a Book of the Year in the Observer .