Beast by Pascale Petit
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2025
Emily Berry Her startling instinct for metaphor

Her startling instinct for metaphor

— Emily Dickinson

Derek Walcott

John Birtwhistle has said that 'one writes each poem just to learn how to write it'

Beast by Pascale Petit<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2025</b><br> Emily Berry Her startling instinct for metaphorMythic 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