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Martin Figura

writer | poet | photographer

writer | poet | photographer
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Haarlem Book Shop

with Helen Ivory

Workshop also tbc

15 October 2026

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Upcoming Gigs

11 NovMortality, I Could Live Without It – LaunchNorwich Arts Centre
07 FebCB1The Town & Gown Pub & Theatre, Market Passage, Cambridge tbc
14 MarGrand PlansThe Sair Inn, 139 Lane Top, Linthwaite, Huddersfield HD7 5SG
14 MarTalking BollocksHyde Park Book Club 27-29 Headingley LaneLeeds, LS6 1BL
17 MarPoetry PharmacyThe Poetry Pharmacy, York
26 MayTiger BayChapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
07 JunWay With WordsKing’s Head, High Street, Wells, Somerset

Reviews and Feedback

I didn’t think old people could be funny, you were very very funny.
Ten Year Old Boy
Martin Figura’s poems are sharp and funny. One of the best performing poets on the circuit.
Luke Wright
…. brave, confident and articulate performance from a man who gives us the confidence to find within each of us the strength to be a good father or mother or poet, or even all combined in one.
Norwich Spy - Julian Swainson
“He must be a writer – he has ‘the look’ about him”. Punter, Edinburgh International Book Festival
Edinburgh Book Festival
…. Tym’s response was extraordinary, for a quiet, non-poetic man like him. ‘Brilliant! he exclaimed. ‘Absolutely bloody brilliant!’ And he kept on saying it all the way home.
Jennifer Currie
Martin Figura’s show was one of the highlights of our festival this year. It had a very powerful effect on the audience; months later people still tell me how it has stayed with them.
Eleanor Livingstone, Director StAnza International Poetry Festival
…. sometimes very funny and always engaging. Figura is remarkably frank in what he tells his audience; but he includes us rather than making us feel we are intruding.
London Grip - Michael Bartholomew-Biggs

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