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Truth to Life
Truth to Life
Poems for Peace competition – 1st Prize: Heather Glover
Poems for Peace competition – 1st Prize: Heather Glover...
Poems for Peace competition – 2nd Prize: Halema Malak
Poems for Peace competition – 2nd Prize: Halema Malak...
Poems for Peace competition – 3rd Prize: Alwiyah Qassim
Poems for Peace competition – 3rd Prize: Alwiyah Qassim...
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Mohamed Assaf
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Mohamed Assaf...
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Angelina Borzini-Castor
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Angelina Borzini-Castor...
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Izzy Crane
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Izzy Crane...
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Ciéra Cree Drury
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Ciéra Cree Drury...
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Olivia Darby
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Olivia Darby...
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Sayandeep Das
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Sayandeep Das...

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RSL Ondaatje Winners’ Reading Group Recommendations

Pascale Petit

Pascale Petit

Pascale Petit is of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. Her seventh poetry collection Mama Amazonica won the 2018 RSL Ondaatje Prize (the first poetry collection to do so), was shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Ch …


Pascale Petit recommends Black Country, The Night Life of Trees, The Blind Owl, The Heights of Macchu Picchu, Mother of God.

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