• Shrapnel and Sheets (Headland, 1996) ISBN 0-903074-92-3.
• Bosco (Hearing Eye: pamphlet 1999; book 2001) ISBN 1-870841-64-6 & ISBN 1-870841-77-8.
• Lepidoptera (Kite Modern Poetry Series, 88 & 96; 1999, 2001) ISBN 0-907759-47-5 & ISBN 0-907759-87-4.
• The Stamina of Sheep (the Havering Poems) (The London Borough of Havering/ Bound Spiral Press, 2002) ISBN 0-9539939-1-4.
• Heavy Water: a poem for Chernobyl (Enitharmon Press, 2004) ISBN 1-900564-34-3.
• Half Life (Poems for Chernobyl) (Heaventree Press, 2004) ISBN 0-9545317-3-6.
• Catullus (Perdika Press, 2006) ISBN 1-905649-00-2 (2nd printing 2007, ISBN 978-1-905649-00-6).
• Fearnought (Poems for Southwell Workhouse) (The National Trust, 2006) ISBN 978-1-84359-251-8.
• Flowers of Sulphur (Enitharmon Press, 2007) ISBN 978-1-904634-37-9.
• somewhere is january (Perdika Press, 2007/8) ISBN 978-1-905649-06-8.
• Sappho (Perdika Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1-905649-09-9.
• i tulips (Enitharmon Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1-904634-93-5.
• Nights * Sifnos * Hands (Flarestack Poets, 2010) ISBN: 978-1-906480-24-0.
• the waltz in my blood (Waterloo Press, 2011) ISBN: 978-1-906742-40-9.
• anima (Nine Arches Press, 2013) ISBN: 978-0-9573847-3-6. 
• 1111 (Perdika, 1 April 2014) ISBN: 978-1-905649-18-1.
• crib (Enitharmon,  2014) ISBN: 978-1-907587-80-1.  http://www.mariopetrucci.com/crib.htm
• Xenia (Eugenio Montale) (Arc Publications, October 2016) ISBN: 978-1-910345-53-5 (pbk); ISBN: 978-1-910345-55-9 (e-bk);  ISBN: 978-1-910345-54-2 (hbk).  https://www.arcpublications.co.uk/books/eugenio-montale-xenia-552
• Beloved:  81 poems from Hafez (Bloodaxe Books, September 2018) ISBN: 978-1-780374-30-7 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-780374-31-4 (e-bk).  http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/beloved-1196

Films

• Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyl (with Phil Grabsky and David Bickerstaff) Seventh Art Productions, 2006.
• Half Life: a journey to Chernobyl (with Phil Grabsky and David Bickerstaff) Seventh Art Productions, 2006.

i rather love

 

not things but
what lies behind
these the way a year

is sometimes glimpsed
past ear of corn or
december

come
out of blue to
one who knew only

sun - perhaps such
are best unsaid
so all might

speak of
corn & sky or
strip decembers

down to black-
scaffold
trees

where
life sings &
sings to death each

 

silenced thing

 

[from i tulips (Enitharmon, 2010) and somewhere is january (Perdika, 2007/8)]

"Petrucci is escaping precepts applied in previous collections... He will certainly find new readers outside of 'mainstream' poetry, especially those who enjoy the canon of Black Mountain poetry and mid-twentieth century American Modernists and Post-Modernists. Mario Petrucci is bravely pushing out his poetic adventure... incorporating new energy in his already accomplished writing." Tears in the Fence 

"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, on i tulips

"It's the sensation of singularly live words that immediately draws one toward Mario Petrucci's poems. The intensity of address in them, both 'of' and 'about' the poem, maintains its friendly but firm grip. In the process, Petrucci is seeing the world, how it all sits or moves amidst anyone's sense of ongoing purpose. He doesn't miss much. These poems are eye openers." Bill Berkson, on i tulips

"Poetry on a geological scale... a new track for poets of witness." Brendan O'Connor (Verse, 2004)

"Powerful and moving... a haunting and captivating film. A startling look at the aftermath of the world's worst nuclear accident." Mark Resnicoff (Suite 101, May 2008), on Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyl

"Heartfelt, ambitious and alive." The Daily Telegraph (Arts & Books; Sept. 21, 2002)

“The language is spare… alert to the way a poem’s lines can eat into the whiteness of the page... crib is invigorated as much by an acute awareness of fragility and temporality as it is by a celebration of new life.”  The Times Literary Supplement

“Slows us down and shows us how to read differently... an imagistic reading experience punctuated by quietness and space.  Death is transformed into a subject of calm.  This gentleness and sense of measure washes through crib again and again.”  Poetry London

“There's certainly not much else like this around British poetry at the moment.”  Martyn Crucefix

“Petrucci’s Xenia conveys something new: it emphasises the sequence’s quotidian concerns, all its prosaic quirkiness, yet somehow also confirms how unequivocally Montale’s greatness transcends the prose-like simplicity of image and tone.”  Rebecca West

"Petrucci’s adaptations are a delight to read.  They are fresh, candid, subtly humorous, and elegant. They have that audacious and multilayered richness one finds in the originals.  Above all, they are uncompromising.  Petrucci has clearly worked to form an understanding of Hafez’s vision, artistry and devotional ambience, and he goes to the necessary length to let all that shine through."  Fatemeh Keshavarz (Director/Chair, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland)