Martin Figura’s collection The Remaining Men was published in February. The book and show Whistle were shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and won the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Show, an award his second show Dr Zeeman’s Catastrophe Machine was shortlisted for. He lives in Norwich with Helen Ivory and sciatica.
Helen Ivory edits IS&T and teaches online for the National Centre for Writing Academy. Wunderkammer, her New and Selected Poems was published by MadHat (US) in 2022. She has work translated into Polish, Ukrainian, Spanish, Croatian and Greek, for Versopolis. Her sixth Bloodaxe Books collection is Constructing a Witch (October 2024). She is also a visual artist and makes collage poems and shadowboxes.
The first half of this event will be open mic, so please feel free to bring and read a poem in a friendly and welcoming space.