Events begin at 7.30pm on Zoom. Please book tickets through the Eventbrite link on our Home Page 10 days before the date.
Martin Figura was once described in a hospital referral letter (bad back) as ‘a pleasant 58 year old gentleman’. His collection and show Whistle was 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. During the first lockdown he began the monthly Zoom event Live From The Butchery with Helen Ivory and Kate Birch, it won the Best Spoken Word Night Saboteur Award and continues to this day. In 2021 he was Salisbury NHS Writer in Residence, with a pamphlet My Name is Mercy from Fair Acre Press. As Far as I’m Concerned is due out with Cinnamon Press in 2023. He lives in Norwich with Helen Ivory and sciatica.
Hello! I would like to ask a question, if I may. Here it is. Will there ever be meetings upstairs, like in the good old days, or is that palava ancient history? I miss it! Thank you and goodnight. Irene. ✌️
Hi Christopher – thank you very much for your enquiry. We are planning an open mic picnic event in Plantation Gardens in August as the first in person event after the Covid situation. We are hoping to organise in person events with invited poets between then and the end of the year but it is likely to be at a venue with better disabled access. Please watch out for our messaging about that. It will be good to see you at our events again,
Best Wishes, Anne Bailey [website editor]