An afternoon with Helen Ivory, Marc Vincenz, and Martin Figura

Join us for the launch of Helen Ivory’s new release, Wunderkammer: New and Selected Poems (MadHat Press), and Marc Vincenz’ The Pearl Diver of Irunmani, just out from White Pine Press.

Helen Ivory is a poet and assemblage artist from Norwich, England. Her fifth Bloodaxe collection The Anatomical Venus. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and teaches creative writing online for the University of East Anglia / National Centre for Writing. 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 and Croatian as part of the Versopolis project. She is working on her next collection for Bloodaxe: How to Construct a Witch.

Martin Figura’s The 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 published in 2016. The Dr Zeeman’s Catastrophe Machine Show was shortlisted in the 2018 Saboteur Awards. In 2021 he was Salisbury NHS Writer in Residence, with a pamphlet My Name is Mercy from Fair Acre Press. A second pamphlet from Fair Acre Press Sixteen Sonnets for Care came out in October. He lives in Norwich, England, with Helen Ivory and sciatica.

Marc Vincenz is a poet, fiction writer, translator, editor, musician and artist. He has published over 30 books of poetry, fiction and translation. His recent poetry collections include, The Little Book of Earthly Delights, There Might Be a Moon or a Dog, and 39 Wonders and Other Management Issues. His work has been published in The Nation, Ploughshares, Raritan, Colorado Review, Washington Square Review, Fourteen Hills, World Literature Today, The Los Angeles Review of Books and many other journals. He is publisher and editor of MadHat Press and publisher of New American Writing. The Pearl Diver of Irunmani is just out from White Pine Press.

“Helen Ivory’s poems are a delight for the assurance she provides that everyday wonders, surprises, and quotidian horrors are in our reach and accessible through her word ministry. Brave and imaginative!” —Maxine Chernoff

“The Pearl Diver of Irunmani is the book of a person who values every inch of the landscape around him, and more, the universe, and more than that, the emo- tional life of each of us. It made me appreciate the world around me, and that is the highest compliment one can give to a work of art.” —John Skoyle, poetry editor, Ploughshares.