Mario Petrucci

Mario Petrucci is an early founder and leading proponent of Ecopoetry. Performer, academic, environmentalist and PhD physicist, as well as translator, educator and broadcaster, his many awards include the Arvon Prize, Bridport Prize, Irish Times Perpetual Trophy, and London Writers Competition (four times). Heavy Water: a poem for Chernobyl (Enitharmon) was hailed as “heartfelt, ambitious and alive” by The Daily Telegraph and “poetry on a geological scale” by Verse (USA). Petrucci’s sustained mediations between ecology and poetry – particularly via the UN – galvanise the role of the arts in environmental discourse. In 2026, Petrucci was appointed Ecopoetry Network Coordinator for the Planetary Arts Movement by the World Academy of Art and Science.