Martin Figura

Three pamphlets: Figura, Flynn and Sabah
Khadija Rouf reviews My Name is Mercy by Martin Figura (Fair Acre Press, 2021), Hilary Menos reviews Nina Simone is Singing by Leontia Flynn (Mariscat Press, 2021), and Mat Riches reviews Litanies by Naush Sabah (Guillemot Press, 2021)

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