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. The mother transforms into a giant Victoria
amazonica waterlily, and a bestiary of untameable creatures - a
jaguar girl, a wolverine, a hummingbird - as she marries her rapist
and gives birth to his children. From heartbreaking trauma, there
emerge luxuriant and tender portraits of a woman battling for
survival, in poems that echo the plight of others under duress, and
of our companion species. Petit does not flinch from the violence
but offers hope by celebrating the beauty of the wild, whether in
the mind or the natural world. Mama Amazonica is Pascale Petit's
seventh collection, and her first from Bloodaxe. Four of Pascale
Petit's previous six collections have been shortlisted for the T.S.
Eliot Prize. Winner of the inaugural Laurel Prize in 2020, Mama
Amazonica won the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize 2018
- the first time a poetry book has won this prize for a work of
fiction, non-fiction or poetry best evoking the spirit of a place,
was shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018, and was the
Poetry Book Society Choice for autumn 2017.
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