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Mario Petrucci - Social Comment, Essays and Academic Work

Curates and Dukes - Radio 3 Poetry Residency 2005
Originally published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews under the title 'Curates And Bishops'

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3 Hot Drops of Salmon Oil - The Artist and the Self in the aftermath of Chernobyl
Originally published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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Chains of Transformation - the making of 'Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyl'
Published (in its original form) in 'Creativity in Language & Literature: The State of the Art' [Palgrave Macmillan 2011]

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POECLECTICS - article A
Making Voices: Identity, Poeclectics and the Contemporary British Poet
NEW WRITING (INT. J. FOR THE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF CREATIVE WRITING) Vol. 3, No. 1, 2006; p.66

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This is an electronic version of an article published in New Writing © 2006 Copyright Taylor & Francis;   New Writing is available online at http://www.informaworld.com

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POECLECTICS - article B
NAWE paper 2001/2002 - Poetry in Performance: Intertextuality, Intra-Textuality, Poeclectics

This paper builds on a presentation given by the author at the NAWE Conference on Re-Writing, 25 November 2000 at Oxford Brookes University, where the main ideas were aired.
A more complete presentation ensued at the 3rd Research Colloquium: "The Politics of Presence: Re-Reading the Writing Subject in 'Live' and Electronic Performance, Theatre and Film Poetry"; held at the Research Centre for Modern and Contemporary Poetry (Oxford Brookes University), 2-3 April 2001.

For examples and discussion of Poeclectics in the context of creative writing and university work, see The English Studies Book (2nd edition) (Rob Pope, Routledge, 2002)

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SPATIAL FORM
Masterclass - 'Spatial Form'  -  a new and exciting way of looking at form in poetry
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VISUAL ANALOGY / VISUALIZATIONS
a radical and attractive suite of visual inventions designed to link literary studies and science
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Recipe for Disaster [Guest editorial, The Environmentalist] click here
Are Great Poets Dead? click here
Television and the Fourth Scopic Epoch click here
Creativity and Schrödinger's Cat (The Bringing In Of Creativity - Dead Or Alive?) click Here
Royal Literary Fund talk [Poetry, Literacy & Caffeine] click here
Poetry Workshops - Sea-Change or Algal Bloom? [article for AGENDA magazine (35/4-36/1)] click here
Poetry in Crisis? [article for BRITISH COUNCIL Literature Matters (31), Spring 2002] click here
Emily Dickinson [Mario provides the idea for, and the first piece in, Acumen's Poet on a Poem series] - reproduced by kind permission click here
Robert Creeley [read Mario's short article in Poetrybay] click here
Staying Awake (2010) - [Mario's presentation on Poetry and Sustainability for the British Council in Madrid] click here
An updated and expanded version of Staying Awake was presented at Uncivilisation 2011 (The Dark Mountain Festival)

Also delivered (Madrid, Dec. 2011) at the Reading Nature Conference, Universidad Complutense/ British Council
[under the title "Green winds, Salmon, Ships upon the Ocean: poetry and art rewriting society and sustainability"]

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MICHELANGELO and SHOSTAKOVICH: from terribilità to terribilità - shorter version was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, full text published in Agenda here
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A Judge's Report - reflections on competitions & poetic judgement (published 2011 in Anon 8) click here
The Day Digest [Kiev] - Letters to Ukraine (regular columnist: social/ artistic issues) click here

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