Mario Petrucci

Mario Petrucci (born 1958) is a poet, literary translator, educator and broadcaster. He was born in Lambeth, London and trained as a physicist at Selwyn College in the University of Cambridge and later completed a PhD in vacuum crystal growth at University College London.He is also an ecologist, having a BA in Environmental Science from Middlesex University. Petrucci was the first poet to be resident at the Imperial War Museum. and with BBC Radio 3 . His first major collection, Shrapnel and Sheets (1996), won a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.He has been much involved in radio broadcasting and in the educational sector, in creative writing and literary mentoring.He has generated many educational resources that incorporate creative writing, science and ecology. Petrucci's poetry has also been deployed in a number of films. For instance, Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyl and Half Life: a Journey to Chernobyl were based on his award-winning poetry collection on Chernobyl. Produced by Seventh Art Productions, these films have garnered awards such as the Cinequest as well as screenings on mainstream television and at major cultural venues such as Tate Modern (in 2007).2012 saw Petrucci shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Awardwith a vast poetry soundscape (among the largest ever created) entitled Tales from the Bridge.This installation spanned the Thames (on the Millennium Bridge, London) as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.Collaborators for the project included Martyn Ware (The Human League) and Eric Whitacre, whose music was used.

• Shrapnel and Sheets (Headland, 1996)ISBN 0-903074-92-3 (Poetry Book Society Recommendation).
• Bosco (Hearing Eye: leaflet 1999; book 2001)ISBN 1-870841-64-6 & ISBN 1-870841-77-8.
• Lepidoptera (Kite Modern Poetry Series, 88 & 96; 1999, 2001)ISBN 0-907759-47-5 & ISBN 0-907759-87-4.
• The Stamina of Sheep (the Havering Poems) (Havering London Borough Council / Bound Spiral Press, 2002)ISBN 0-9539939-1-4.
• The Havering Poetry Study Pack (Havering London Borough Council / Bound Spiral Press, 2002)ISBN 0-9539939-2-2.
• High Zest and the Doggerel March (Wilfred Owen – Genius or Sugar-stick?) (Bound Spiral Press, 2002)ISSN 0955-3819
• Heavy Water: a poem for Chernobyl (Enitharmon Press, 2004)ISBN 1-900564-34-3.
• Half Life (Poems for Chernobyl) (Heaventree Press, 2004)ISBN 0-9545317-3-6.
• Fearnought (Poems for Southwell Workhouse) (The National Trust, 2006)ISBN 1-84359-251-7 or ISBN 978-1-84359-251-8.
• Catullus (Perdika Press, 2006) ISBN 1-905649-00-2 (second re-print 2007, ISBN 978-1-905649-00-6).
• Flowers of Sulphur (Enitharmon Press, 2007)ISBN 978-1-904634-37-9.
• somewhere is January (Perdika Press, 2007)ISBN 978-1-905649-06-8.
• Sappho (Perdika Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1-905649-09-9.
• i tulips (Enitharmon Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1-904634-93-5.
• Nights * Sifnos * Hands (Flarestack Poets, 2010) ISBN 978-1-906480-24-0.
• the waltz in my blood (Waterloo Press, 2011) ISBN 978-190674240-9.
• anima (Nine Arches Press, 2013) ISBN 978-0-9573847-3-6.
• crib (Enitharmon Press, 2014) ISBN 978-1-907587-80-1.
• 1111 (Perdika Press, 2014) ISBN 978-1-905649-18-1.
• Xenia (Arc Publications, 2016)ISBN 978-1-910345-53-5 (Translation of Xenia by Eugenio Montale).
• Beloved: 81 poems from Hafez (Bloodaxe Books, 2018)ISBN 978-1-780374-30-7 (translation of The Divan by Persian mystic poet Hafez).
• Isha Upanishad (Guillemot Press, 2019) (a modern English vers libre version of the ancient sacred Hindu text, the Isha Upanishad).

• Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyl (with Phil Grabsky & David Bickerstaff) Seventh Art Productions, 2006.
• Half Life: a journey to Chernobyl (with Phil Grabsky & David Bickerstaff) Seventh Art Productions, 2006.

• 1993 Winner, London Writers Competition
• 1995 Edith Kitt Memorial Award
• 1996 Poetry Book Society Recommendation
• 1996 Edith Kitt Memorial Award
• 1997 Winner, Sheffield Thursday Prize
• 1997 Winner, inaugural Irish Times Perpetual Trophy
• 1998 New London Writers Award (London Arts)
• 1998 Winner, London Writers Competition
• 1998 Winner, Sheffield Thursday Prize
• 1999 Bridport Poetry Prize
• 2002 Daily Telegraph / Arvon International Poetry Prize
• 2002 Arts Council England Writers' Award
• 2003 Essex Book Awards Best Fiction Prize 2000–2002
• 2003 Silver Wyvern Award
• 2004 Winner, London Writers Competition
• 2004 National Poetry Competition: third prize cum laude
• 2005/2006 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts: Science in Poetry
• 2005 Winner, London Writers Competition
• 2007 Cinequest Film Festival Award, Best Short Documentary (Half Life: a Journey to Chernobyl)
• 2009/10 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts: i tulips
• 2012 Shortlisted for The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry: Tales from the Bridge
• 2016 Winner, PEN Translates Award
• 2018 Shortlisted: John Florio Prize for Italian Translation (with Xenia by Eugenio Montale)