Poetry From Martin Figura and Helen Ivory

A reading from East Anglia’s best in a welcome return to Nottingham for two of this country’s best dressed poets…

The poets will read from their new collections; Martin’s being The Remaining Men, (Cinnamon Press, May 2024) and Helen’s is Constructing a Witch (Bloodaxe  October 2024).

Martin Figura’s collection and show Whistle were shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and won the 2013 Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Show.  Shed (Gatehouse Press) and Dr Zeeman’s Catastrophe Machine (Cinnamon Press) were both published in 2016.  In 2021 he was Salisbury NHS Writer in Residence; the resulting pamphlet My Name is Mercy (Fair Acre Press) won a national NHS award. A second pamphlet from Fair Acre Press Sixteen Sonnets for Care came out in October 2022.

Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her sixth Bloodaxe Books collection Constructing a Witch.  She edits Ink Sweat and Tears and teaches creative writing online for the UEA/NCW. A book of mixed media poems Hear What the Moon Told Me is published by KFS, and chapbook Maps of the Abandoned City by SurVision.  She has work translated into Polish, Ukrainian, Spanish, Croatian and Greek for  Versopolis. Her Poem The Square of the Clockmaker has recently been riding the rails as one of the Poems on the Underground.

Refreshments included