Flowers of Sulphur

Flowers of Sulphur

by Mario Petrucci (Author)

Synopsis

Flowers of Sulphur crackles with metaphorical energy. Over a decade in the making, this remarkable new book confirms Petrucci's reputation for exploring the gamut of human experience. It demonstrates, once again, his rare capacity to bridge the gap between science and poetry with power and authenticity. As with the best poets, thinking and feeling are, for Petrucci, a single act (George Szirtes). Indeed, just as we now know that light is both corpuscular and wave-like in nature, so Flowers of Sulphur is able to embody many, often seemingly paradoxical, qualities. These poems ring with complexity and clarity: like our quantum world, this award-winning collection reinvents itself moment to moment so as to unsettle, move and inspire us.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Publisher: Enitharmon Press
Published: 15 Jul 2007

ISBN 10: 1904634370
ISBN 13: 9781904634379

Author Bio
Mario Petrucci is an ecologist, physicist and war poet. He is also the only poet to have been in residence at the Imperial War Museum.A selection of these poems won the Daily Telegraph / Arvon International Poetry Competition 2002, and two won Merit Awards in the Nottingham Open Poetry Competition in the same year. Mario was the recipient of a Writers Award from the Arts Council of England. A Natural Sciences graduate, Mario is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, and works as an educator and a radio/TV broadcaster. Poems from Heavy Water are featured in Poetry Review, The London Magazine, Acumen, Agenda, on BBC Radio and at The Royal Festival Hall