Christodoulos Makris

I was very happy to contribute a new poem with informal title 'Locomotion' to the fifth issue of Éireann Lorsung 's wonderful micro-publishing project Abundant Number . Abundant Number  5 was published in November 2025, and my contribution was commissioned for the recurring 'Day by Day' section. "Assembled on both sides of the Atlantic from parts made all over the world," Abundant Number is an irregular, low-fi publication described as "a way of making books together that prioritizes small scale production and material, tactile pleasure." Each issue contains text and images, including a classifieds section. Some include unbound ephemera; others take the form of a staple-bound booklet. Lorsung writes: " Abundant Number is something between a table of zines at a punk fair, a case of mail-art and Fluxus ephemera at a museum, and the chapbooks we make for our friends. Think about this more as a newspaper of the very local, or as a weather rep...

A couple of weeks ago I recorded a short excerpt from a new long poem of mine called 'Hallucinations' for the December 2025 edition of Jennifer Redmond & Matthew Geden 's monthly hourlong radio show The Expanded Field, broadcasting on éist radio. éist is a Cork-based volunteer-run internet radio collective dedicated to fostering creativity, collaboration, and community engagement through digital radio. In The Expanded Field , "strategies of poetic creation are debated and extended by audio effects. Aesthetic and ethical boundaries are pushed out and beyond the page." 'The Expanded Field - Baa Boo Humbug' was broadcast at 4pm on Wednesday 17 December 2025 as a mix of experimental sounds, music, interview, poetry and live performance. My section runs for approximately 7 minutes and it's accompanied by sounds from Irene Murphy and Mick O'Shea . Thanks to Jenny for soliciting my contribution. Broadcast information, including a breakdown of the li...

I was pleased to be able to formalise an almost decade-long association with New Jersey / New York writer, poet and multimedia artist  Chris Campanioni  through a commissioned conversation for  Books Ireland magazine. The resulting 6,500 word piece exploring the in-conversation format as collaborative enterprise and literary genre has the title  'Work That Happens Elsewhere,'  and it was published on 5 December 2025. From the introduction: After almost a decade of correspondence, exchange of work and editorial activities, Chris Campanioni (New Jersey) and Christodoulos Makris (Dublin) met in person in New York City in January 2025, cementing a mutual understanding of their work, in particular how it shares strong kinship and an interest in fiercely contemporary culture and poetics. In this transatlantic in-conversation piece, composed remotely between 26 September and 05 November 2025, the poets reflect on each other’s work and their shared intermedial, cross-d...

On Friday 21 November 2025 I performed a live hour-long version of Chapter 11: November from my ongoing durational project DIAL , this time in collaboration just with Keith Lindsay on electronics and live radio feedback. The performance took place in The Depot, The Complex Arts Centre’s large warehouse performance space, and it was part of Kirkos' takeover of The Depot Sessions . Kirkos is a music group from Dublin, as well as the operator of a DIY venue with a radically open approach to programming.  The Complex is the only multi-disciplinary arts centre in Dublin's north inner city, combining seventeen studios, a large warehouse performance space and a gallery. * A four-and-a-half-hour live extravaganza with performances of various kinds and durations happening at times simultaneously within The Depot, this was a wonderfully conceived and delivered event with a borderless, communal, quasi-anarchic, and ego-free vibe not often encountered in Dublin, taking its cue from the...

Two sections from my fifth book It Reeks of Radio , along with their translations into Greek by Despina Pirketti, are featured in the latest issue of the illustrious UK-based magazine Modern Poetry in Translation . The issue, released late November 2025, bears the title 'The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus.' Modern Poetry in Translation  was founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort, and for 60 years it has been publishing "the best new poetry, essays and reviews from around the world." In truth I was somewhat surprised to be invited by guest issue editor, Jessica Sequeira , to feature, as the focus is on translations into English of poetry written in Greek. However, in the issue announcement  Jessica writes the following: "Greek poetry, as perhaps all poetry, opens the heart to the beyond, to the liminal condition. The truth is that the idea of a national focus will forever be complicated given that migrants also form part of...

I was happy to contribute new work to the landmark 75th Anniversary Edition of Icarus , Trinity College Dublin's student literary magazine, as one of eight featured contemporary writers. This edition , published in the last week of August 2025, also includes material from current Trinity College students, and a number of legacy contributions reproduced from the magazine's archives. The other featured writers are Paula Meehan, Paul Lynch, Catherine Prasifka, Eoin McNamee, Louise Nealon, Paul Durcan, and Gustav Parker Hibbett. Icarus is "the oldest continuous literary journal in Ireland and the UK". Since 1950 it has been publishing poetry, prose, drama, personal essays and visual art from students, staff and alumni of Trinity College Dublin, including work by Simon Armitage, William Burroughs, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Paul Muldoon, and Louis MacNeice. Former editors include Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Brendan Kennelly, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Iain Sinclair, Davi...

It's a great pleasure to announce this very special reading at Books Upstairs , Dublin's oldest independent bookshop, taking place on Sunday 13 July 2025. The Transatlantic Poetry Salon features rob mclennan and Christine McNair visiting from Ottawa in Canada, as well as Dublin-based Éireann Lorsung (who will be returning to the US later this summer to take up a permanent position at University of South Dakota, teaching and editing the South Dakota Review)  and myself. The  Transatlantic Poetry Salon  is made possible through generous support from  Poetry Ireland . Thanks also to Maurice, Louisa, and everyone at Books Upstairs for hosting us. Full details below: Transatlantic Poetry Salon: Éireann Lorsung | Christodoulos Makris | rob mclennan | Christine McNair Books Upstairs 17 D'Olier Street, Dublin 2 2pm, Sunday 13 July 2025 Free Entry Reserve a place here Presented in association with Poetry Ireland Curated by Christodoulos Makris A special event with readings f...

In a discussion-based oral history of SoundEye Festival (1997-2017) collated by David Toms and published in the special poetry issue of The Stinging Fly  magazine in the summer of 2022 , my absence from the history of the festival as a forum for international experimental poetries in Ireland was noted and remarked upon. I'm happy that this is now being rectified, and that I'll be taking part in the upcoming revival edition, the first since 2017: SoundEye 2025 takes place in over the weekend 4-6 July 2025 with a free schedule of events at University College Cork and Shandon Studios, Cork City. And I'm very pleased to be reading with Nisha Ramayya, Peter Manson, and Gonca Özmen on Saturday 5 July (12 - 1.30pm) at The Shtepps auditorium in UCC. Founded in 1997, SoundEye - Festival of the Arts of the Word  was an annual festival of poetry held in Cork and dedicated to the exploration of innovative writing. With a focus on the legacies of modernism, translation, and the ...

I was happy to accept an invitation from Poetry Ireland to host an INSIGHTS masterclass this autumn. 'our sullen art: the poet after AI,' my contribution to this occasional series, will take place on Thursday 16 October 2025, and bookings are now open . INSIGHTS is Poetry Ireland's masterclass series, "led by some of the most respected voices in contemporary poetry in Ireland, and designed to support poets at all stages of their careers." Places are limited. The session will take place online via Zoom, with participants able to join from anywhere. See basic information and masterclass description below  as announced by Poetry Ireland , including booking link. Full details here . Poet Christodoulos Makris hosts an online writing masterclass, our sullen art: the poet after AI , for poets at all stages of their careers on Thursday, 16th October. Thursday 16 October 2025, 6.30pm - 8.30pm Online (via Zoom) Tickets: €25 Reserve a Spot Here.   About the Masterclass How d...

Join us on Thursday 1 May 2025 at the brand new Kirkos venue in central Dublin (1 Little Green Street, Dublin 7) for a 60 minute performance from Chapter 5: May of my durational writing project DIAL , with sonic interventions from Joanna Mattrey , Nick Roth and Keith Lindsay . A live, semi-improvised cross-disciplinary collaboration  featuring spoken text, viola, saxophone, and electronics with live radio feedback & looped sounds. DIAL is a durational-procedural-aleatory work of poetic prose I composed through real-time, automatic transcriptions of spoken language from a different radio station broadcasting anywhere in the world, performed each and every day over the entire calendar year 2021 and linked seamlessly with short pieces of 'original' text I wrote contemporaneously. The composition of DIAL was enabled by a PLATFORM 31 award . Kirkos is an experimental music ensemble & DIY venue/rehearsal space and artist studios. Doors 7.30pm / Performance 8pm ...