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MARIO PETRUCCI / TIM LIARDET

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'Twin engines drive Mario Petrucci's poetry: one engine is a personal and cultural knowledge of the sweep of European history; the other is a scientific understanding few poets have. Between them, these engines take Mario's poetry to dazzling heights.' (Ian McMillan). Mario's Petrucci work spans an impressive range of subject and style, from serious and formal verse to up-beat performance and experimental poetry. Mario is a popular and eclectic performer, with past readings at the Voice Box, Poetry Society and festivals/venues across the country.

Tim Liardet has produced five collections of poetry. His third collection Competing with the Piano Turner was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and long listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1998; and his fourth collection, To the God of Rain, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Spring 2003. Talking of this book, The Times Literary Supplement said: 'Liardet leads us to a poetic mode of visionary simplicity, that sense of ecstatic simplicity perfected by George Herbert...' His fifth collection The Uses of Pepper was a winner of the Smith Doorstop Book and Pamphlet Competition in Spring 2003, and as a collection-in-progress, won an Arts Council England Writers' Award (2003). In 2002, Liardet was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship.

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