The Waltz in My Blood

Mario Petrucci is an acclaimed poet, freelance educator and innovator, physicist, ecologist, Royal Literary Fund Fellow and residency frontiersman, the only poet to have held residencies at the Imperial War Museum and with BBC Radio 3. 'Reminiscent of e.e. cummings at his best' (Envoi) , Petrucci aspires to 'poetry on a geological scale' (Verse) . our times winner of the London Writers competition, his numerous awards include the Daily Telegraph/ Arvon Prize, the Bridport Prize and a PBS Recommendation. The waltz in my blood is taken from his monumental Anglo-American sequence of 'modernist marvels' (Poetry Book Society) entitled i tulips and now on target to reach 1111 poems.