Perdika Press, Winter 07/ Spring 08:   £4.95   ISBN: 978-1-905649-06-8    (pamphlet)

somewhere is january was launched in January 2008. To order, contact Perdika Press by clicking here: or contact Mario at mmpetrucci@hotmail.com

"Reminiscent of e.e. cummings at his best... The poetry is vivid, generous and life-affirming without even a glance at sentimentalism. It is brave, brilliant and beautiful." Envoi "Petrucci is somebody working with a lively circumspection in a tradition he's demonstrating not to have been merely an early-to-mid-20th-century exploration." Roy Fisher "Life-altering... a dazzling but warm and generous remaking of language that arises out of authentic experience seen through the precise eyes of the scientist." Jacqui Rowe [Writers' Forum - 2008 Chapbook Choice] "Carefully crafted and engaging... making clever use of punning line-breaks to emphasise the slipperiness of meaning and the vitality of language." Horizon Review   Always a poet of boldness and range, Petrucci here places himself surely at the confluence of linguistic energy and formal innovation. somewhere is january projects a fierce and utterly modern lyricism to confirm his place among the most vital and thrilling of contemporary poets. Nowhere else in Petrucci's work do the triumphs and uncertainties of being gain such powerful access to the procedures of his poetry: born of immediacy and humanity, these poems offer a complex generosity that intensifies and deepens at every visit.   "Poised, balletic, in its exploration of intellectual and physical, light-bound space." Simon Jenner   Critic / editor Peter Brennan discusses somewhere is january (Jesus College, Cambridge) by kind permission :   Click here... for sample audio from the i tulips sequence (including comments from the author on the project as a whole, and excerpts from somewhere is january) - courtesy of Archive of the Now.   SPRING   Our cells reply as petals do – beflowering the nervous byways. Gusts shake temporal memories loose: bestrew a mind’s street corners. If hail should pass – it will thaw quickly as we do. This blood tight in its arteries second by second taking us to heart may be loosed in that simple space between two beats of thought. Nothing lost. Spring prepares that tender and final passage – gathers us (soft tendrils that we are) back to the root.           (c) Mario Petrucci 2007

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