7pm - workshop with Mario Petrucci
8pm - open mic and guest readings
Guest Poet: Mario Petrucci
Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
Waged £5, unwaged £3
Award-winning poet, ecologist, PhD physicist and Royal Literary
Fund Fellow Mario Petrucci has held major poetry residencies at the
Imperial War Museum and BBC Radio 3. Heavy Water: a poem for Chernobyl
(Enitharmon, 2004) secured the Daily Telegraph/ Arvon Prize and “inflicts...
the finest sort of shock, not just to the senses, but to the conscience, to the
soul” (Poetry London). i tulips (Enitharmon, 2010)
takes its name from his 1111-strong Anglo-American sequence, and has received much
acclaim for its distinctive combination of innovation and humanity. Mario
is an experienced tutor on the international scene, and his performances are as
compelling as they are memorable. www.mariopetrucci.com
