Beast by Pascale Petit
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2025
prize printed a decade after Neighbor‘s

printed a decade after Neighbor‘s original publication

the quiddity of the everyday

In this powerful and affecting anthology

Time moves through the poems and the collection explores the way scientists view time

Beast by Pascale Petit<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2025</b><br> prize printed a decade after Neighbor‘sMythic and familial beasts roam the swamps and moors of Pascale Petit's Beast. These spirits of the wild haunt the Camargue of Provence, the limestone Causses and gorges of the Languedoc, Indian tiger forests, the Amazon rainforest, and her home by Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Some of these remote places are vestiges of earth's pristine habitats, while other wildernesses are encaged in cellars of Paris, along with the world's last species. Their essence