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somewhere is january was published in December 2007 by Perdika Press.
Flowers of Sulphur was published in July 2007 by Enitharmon Press.
Fearnought was designed and produced by Mario as a poet's response to Southwell workhouse, and published in May 2006 through the National Trust.
Catullus was published by Perdika Press on the Ides of March 2006.
Half Life (poems for Chernobyl) is the sister volume to Heavy Water, published by Heaventree Press on April 26 2004.
Heavy Water (a poem for Chernobyl), winner of the Daily Telegraph/Arvon International Poetry Competition, was published by Enitharmon on April 26 2004.
The Stamina of Sheep and accompanying Study Pack were produced as part of Mario's residency in the London Borough of Havering in Summer 2000. The Stamina of Sheep has won the Essex Best Fiction Prize 2000-2002.
Bosco taps into Petrucci's origins as a physicist and social ecologist. This book-length sequence evolves into an eerie elegiac sensibility, generating an assertive yet original force against fast-track, throwaway culture.
Mario's debut collection, Shrapnel and Sheets, won a PBS Recommendation and was widely praised for its handling of war themes and scientific issues through poetry.
Under preparation is Monte Cassino, a tour de force in which
poems concatenate in and around the eponymous site. Mario's family were caught up in the (in)famous struggle; the different voices within this book not only challenge and interrogate the historicity of war, but also highlight unusual and powerful perspectives on its aftermath.
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