About this Event
Welcome to Medway River Lit: Poetry Republic - Helen Ivory and Martin Figura. Join us for an evening filled with captivating performances at Coffee Republic Chatham. Listen to talented poets share their work! Don't miss out on this opportunity to experience the magic of spoken word. See you there!
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.
Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her sixth Bloodaxe Books collection Constructing a Witch, was published in September 2024. 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. Wunderkammer: New and Selected Poems (2023) was published in the US by MadHat Press.
We have been hoping to get Helen and Martin to come to the delta for some time now and we are so pleased to finally make it a reality! They are supported by popular Kent poets, Pauline Holmes, a 60 something poet and storyteller with the mind of a child and the wrinkles of someone much older; and Zack Davies, who writes poetry 'because I live in Kent, UK'.
PHOTOS -
TOP - PAULINE HOLMES
MIDDLE - ZACK DAVIES
BOTTOM - HELEN IVORY & MARTIN FIGURA
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Coffee Republic Chatham, 185-187 Military Road, Chatham, United Kingdom
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