"As close as we have to a 21st Century renaissance man.... one of the most interesting and best poets of our times."
- Literati Magazine

"A master of the art." - Poetry Writers' Yearbook 2007   "These new lyric poems are modernist marvels." - PBS Bulletin 2010, on i tulips

2010 - i tulips project receives 'Grants for the Arts' support (Arts Council England); first volume published by Enitharmon Press.

2009 - Mario featured in BBC Radio 3's Poems for Today; also, The British Library sponsored audio archive: Archive of the Now.

2008 - Making Nothing Happen: poets discuss the role of poetry in a threatened world - London Word Festival.

Winter 07/ Spring 08 : somewhere is january is published by Perdika Press

2007 - October : Mario's work on Chernobyl and fossil-fuel abuse featured in Bloodaxe's Earth Shattering: Ecopoems

2007 - July 1 : Launch of Flowers of Sulphur (Enitharmon Press)

2006 - Catullus and Fearnought are published

2006 - Mission Possible: The Study Skills Pack is launched by the Royal Literary Fund

2005 - Mario wins the London Writers Competition - fourth win in 12 years

2004/5 - Mario is BBC Radio 3's first ever poet in residence (click here)

May 2003 - The Stamina of Sheep wins the Essex Best Fiction Award (click here)

2002 - Mario wins The Daily Telegraph Arvon International Poetry Competition   (click for the Arvon site & competition anthology)

Mario on the BBC for National Poetry Day 2001 - 9/11 commission (click here)

'A true European, whose sympathetic understanding extends to every human condition.'
- Anne Born, PQR 5

'Petrucci is somebody working with a lively circumspection in a tradition he's demonstrating not to have been merely an early-to-mid-20th-century exploration.'
- Roy Fisher

'Should finally, belatedly, establish him as a major poet of his generation.'
- Simon Jenner, Waterloo Press [on Flowers of Sulphur]

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