Christodoulos Makris

I very much look forward to this year's edition of the Belfast Book Festival, taking place 10-19 June, and in which I will be participating in a range of ways. Especially since my scheduled participation in 2020, arranged by a different programming team, unfortunately did not happen due to the festival's cancellation that year. So my contribution to the  Belfast Book Festival 2022 takes three different forms: 1/ Reading and Conversation -  Literary Collage With Sophie Herxheimer & Christodoulos Makris : This intimate event will query the potential of the many sources of found and discarded language as source texts for the creation of new literary material. Come along and join poets Sophie Herxheimer and Christodoulos Makris for an evening of readings and conversation. Wednesday 15 June 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Tickets: Pay What You Want – recommended price £7  | The Crescent Arts Centre 2/ Workshop -  Text As Material: Remake Reuse Recycle With Christodoulos Makris : H

Having also had work featured  in the inaugural issue  last year, I'm very pleased to have four new poems as fragmented-disembodied lyric included in  Belfield Literary Review  No. 2 (Spring 2022) - an issue guest-curated and edited by Niamh Campbell . Belfield Literary Review is a beautifully produced annual journal published by Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) in collaboration with the UCD School of English, Drama and Film . The journal "has grown out of the creative writing community in University College Dublin, and [...] deals with the interface between critical and creative work, hybrid texts and the experimental." Issue 2 is titled 'The Long Journey', and also includes work from many excellent writers such as Chris Beausang, Adrian Duncan, Mia Gallagher, Darragh McCausland, Chris Murray, Nathan O'Donnell, Sue Rainsford, Sam Riviere, Sydney Weinberg, and more. It was launched last Monday 2 May at MoLI with readings from some of the contributors, and