Christodoulos Makris

Issue 11 of Poetry Ireland's occasional literary pamphlet Trumpet  - a minor-key publishing project continuing to grow in significance, offering essays and reviews as well as original poetry - was released last month. The focus of this issue, edited by Tapasya Narang , is on ephemeral poetic forms as a means of querying the value of 'publishing' and the assumption that poetry is organised around the achievement of posterity. Trumpet 11 closes with a full page reproduction of my poem 'Browsing History #4', made as part of  my project as Digital Poet in Residence at StAnza International Poetry Festival (2017)  in St Andrews, Scotland. The full outcome of the Browsing History project is  available as a set of postcards from zimZalla avant objects . On publication of the postcards in March 2018,  I wrote a short essay for the StAnza Festival website  reflecting on the project's concept and compositional & publication processes, and its relationship to eph...

Following a long hiatus in publishing operations at gorse - the previous issue No. 10 , a special mixed-media book-in-a-box issue I edited in full, was released back in September 2018 - I'm very pleased to report that we're back with issue No. 11, published last month and now available for purchase. gorse No. 11 has been produced as a tête-bêche (meaning 'head-to-tail', where a publication is printed in two halves, upside down and back-to-back, so you can read one half then flip it over to start reading the other) and which reflects the issue's guiding concept of 'Borders', with a North/South (Whins/Furze) editorial structure. According to A.T. Lucas, in his book Furze, A Survey and History of its Uses in Ireland (1960), "There are two general English names [for gorse] current in the country. A line drawn from east to west across the country from the neighbourhood of Drogheda to that of Westport approximately divides the territories where these name...