Royal Literary Fund Fellow
The Royal Literary Fund has established a national network of Fellows, to provide Universities with assistance in all aspects of ‘expository writing’. Under this umbrella term, individual Fellows work 1-to-1 with students and staff on essay writing, reports, study techniques and oral presentations. The Fellowship scheme at City & Guilds of London Art School is now well established, and this year represents Mario Petrucci’s second year at the Art School.
Mario Petrucci is a poet, 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 and he is now active in generating poetry videos that address environmental, social and personal themes. 2012 saw Petrucci shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award with 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.