Beast by Pascale Petit
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2025
WW Norton & Co Ashton deploys poetry as an

Ashton deploys poetry as an applied art

emergence from disappointment and fasting

Her name was Rifqa-she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience

because gueule is another word for 'gob'

)Fred D'Aguiar's new book recovers and re-imagines the story of a black jockey who raced and won the most publicised race of his era and yet was not named in any of the many press notices about the event

Beast by Pascale Petit<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2025</b><br> WW Norton & Co Ashton deploys poetry as anMythic 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