Martin Figura
![A photograph of a man wearing a spotless white shirt, a paisley tie and a beige cardigan. Only the lower half of the face is visible,](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/The-Remaining-Men-by-Martin-Figura-COVER-320x225.jpg)
Soldier, astronaut, photographer, accountant … poet
Annie Fisher reviews The Remaining Men by Martin Figura (Cinnamon Press, 2024)
![Three pamphlet covers arranged in a fan shape, one has a health worker in PPE on a blue background, one is yellow with black text running down the centre of the page and one is half white with purple text , the other half has what may be a woodcut in what may be ethnic patterns.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Three-pamphlets-March-1-e1646902541400-320x225.jpg)
Three pamphlets: Martin Figura, Leontia Flynn and Naush Sabah
Khadija Rouf reviews My Name is Mercy by Martin Figura (Fair Acre, 2021), Hilary Menos reviews Nina Simone is Singing by Leontia Flynn (Mariscat Press, 2021), and Mat Riches reviews Litanies by Naush Sabah (Guillemot, 2021)
![Saturday Morning](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FIigura-320x225.jpg)
Saturday Morning
by Martin Figura — That paving slab the working week / squared away and set to rest, leave them / to their tea, their Chronicle, the felt pen reek / of circled ads, let unencumbered men // go, go, hungover in their dinted vans