Christodoulos Makris

My poem 'insert name here' was published in the online edition of  Granta  magazine last week. "like us or not don’t be afraid toss us a follow it counts":  Read 'insert name here' . Granta  is  a quarterly magazine of new writing. It was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as  The Granta , and in 1979, Bill Buford and Pete de Bolla transformed it from a student publication to the literary quarterly it remains today. Granta Books came ten years later, and now publishes around thirty new titles a year.  Granta  is most celebrated for its ‘Best of Young’ issues, which introduce the most important voices of each generation - in Britain, America, Brazil and Spain - defining the contours of the literary landscape. It has published twenty-seven Nobel Prize laureates. My thanks to Granta poetry editor  Rachael Allen , online editor  Josie Mitchell , and editorial assistant  Brodie Crellin . 'insert name here' is...

I'm excited to announce that my new book of poems  Contemporaneous Brand Strategy Document is publishing this month with the Veer2 imprint of Veer Books. The book will be launched on Sunday 26 March at 3pm in Books Upstairs in central Dublin. More details below. Copies will be available to purchase at the launch. The book is also available to order directly from Veer Books , and from other outlets. About the Book: Contemporaneous Brand Strategy Document is a cycle of poems composed through a process of remixing automatic writing, direct transcriptions of public speech, and samples from pop culture and social media sources, collectively exploring patterns of digital gesture, (self-)branding, and themes of identity dispersal and anxiety. The critique of self-absorption, mounted formally in the unpunctuated flow of the poetic voice, is also explored thematically in the transmutation of all forms of movement into opportunities for advantage. In the poem ‘risk’, motion is the arch...

A new piece of mine in collaboration with visual artist Niamh McCann and theatre-maker Richard Walsh appears in  Exit. Music. Lights.,  a publication from the Numbered Editions imprint with commissioned contributions from artists across forms. Designed by Clare Bell  and released in late 2022,  Exit. Music. Lights.  features contributions from a group of visual artists, writers and theatre-makers exploring theatre, performance and the idea of the ‘black out’ in a variety of ways. It's the second in a series of Numbered Editions, a Dublin-based experimental imprint  co-edited by Nathan O’Donnell and Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll . Numbered Editions is described as "an occasional platform for writing by artists across artforms," and it is interested in points of intersection. Operating on the principle of serialisation, it publishes neither books nor magazines but something in between. (I was pleased also to be part of the first title in the series, figure | gr...