Click here to read about Mario's ecological sequence Bosco

Click here to read Mario's analysis of environmental inaction - Recipe for Disaster

Click here to read about science and creativity

Click here for the new film Half Life: a Journey to Chernobyl

Click here for the full-length film Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyl

Click here for Wikipedia entry on Chernobyl

Click here for Wikipedia entry on Ecopoetry

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THE ECOPOETRY STUDY PACKS:   Resources for Poetry Lessons & Creative Writing     Click here for UNEP World Environment Day: Press Release, June 08

"You are unlikely to find a more relevant or inspiring Environment-oriented writing package for classrooms, seminars and tutorials.
These poems pull no punches - they will intrigue, delight and provoke at every level of emotion, learning and action."   The Poetry Society

Increasingly, teachers and educators will have to grapple with environmental issues, through personal creativity as well as in the classroom.
The Poetry Society commissioned Mario to develop the following Environment-centred resource packs, designed for schools, young adults and poets...

1. Poetry : the Environment.   Four of the most pressing Environmental themes, comprehensively and inventively explored through poetry.
2. Biomimicry : Poetry.   A fascinating new branch of science, concerned with solving problems by imitating Nature, approached through poetry.
3. The Green Poetry Pack.   Poems and writing ideas with which to engage the natural world, soil and trees, and local self-sufficiency.

"A lovely thing... a wonderful, living example of principled engagement."   Peter Brennan, former Head of English (Latymer School)

Click here for the link to the Poetry Society & free A4 downloads.

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Making Nothing Happen - Mario Petrucci, Neil Astley, Melanie Challenger and Caspar Henderson discuss the role of poetry in a threatened world (London Word Festival, 29 February 2008, Bishopsgate Institute). Chaired by Roddy Lumsden.

Mario emphasises how poetry indeed makes nothing happen, firstly in that it persuades rather than coerces (i.e. poetry doesn't make anything happen) and secondly that it can foster stillness, thoughtfulness and the receptivities of Negative Capability (which means that certain approaches to poetry can engender receptive states of mind involving positive kinds of 'no-thing'). His major initial contribution to the event occurs in the final quarter of Part 1; his poetry can be heard at the end of Part 2.

Click here to listen to Part 1  [Roddy's introduction, individual presentations by Neil, Caspar, Mel and Mario]
Click here to listen to Part 2  [Panel Discussion; questions from the audience; readings by Mel & Mario]

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Mario's powerful, award-winning poems on Chernobyl and fossil-fuel abuse are featured in Bloodaxe's ground-breaking Eco-anthology: Earth Shattering: Ecopoems.

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