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...
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