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POETRY REPUBLIC: MARTIN FIGURA & HELEN IVORY + SUPPORT

We are delighted to welcome Helen Ivory and Martin Figura to the Delta. They will be supported by local poets, Zack Davies and Pauline Holmes.

Martin Figura 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.  His new collection The Remaining Men was published by Cinnamon Press in March 2024. 

The Remaining Men “Martin Figura’s poems are humane, clear-eyed, and compassionate without the least sentimentality. He has written directly out of people’s lives, particularly in hospitals, in the army and in the workplace. He…