Martin Figura was born in Liverpool in 1956. He left school at 15 to join the Army. He left after 25 years in 1997, as a Major, to become a photographer. His work has been widely published and exhibited, including at the National Portrait Gallery. His book This Man’s Army was published by Dewi Lewis Publishing in 1998 with a foreword by Billy Bragg. His first poetry collection The Little Book of Harm (Firewater Press) was published in 2000 and reprinted in 2001, 2002 & 2003. Ahem (Eggbox) his second collection was published in 2005. He has recently completed an MA (with distinction) in Writing The Visual at Norwich School of Art and Design. He won the Café Writers Poetry Prize in 2006. He is currently working on completing his third collection Whistle and adapting it for radio.

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