Christodoulos Makris

The fourth edition of Phonica takes place on Wednesday 19 October, and we're excited to be joined by Martín Bakero , Susan Connolly , John Kearns ,  Neil Ó Lochlainn , Elizabeth Hilliard and David Lacey for a set of performances and presentations traversing the realms of sound poetry, electronic music, visual poetry, improvisation, and more. about  Phonica Phonica: Four Wednesday 19 October 2016 Jack Nealons, 165 Capel Street, Dublin 1 8pm start admission free Martín Bakero has presented performances, lectures, films, expositions, installations and radio programs in many locations throughout Europe and North, Central and South America. He has experimented with combinatorial, permutation, genetic, astrobiology, quantum mechanics, sound, vision and psychics arts. He studied electroacoustic composition at the conservatory of Paris and has taught in the Universities of Paris, México and Chile specialising in severe personality disorders and sound poetry. H...

Art & Writing, organised by Paper Visual Art and gorse journals, is a series of conversations between practitioners who work at the intersection of writing and the visual arts. This autumn, three events will take place in Dublin, bringing together artists and writers to present and discuss their work, and exploring the overlaps. I'll be taking part in the first event - details below. My thanks to Paper Visual Art for the invitation. #1: IMPRINT Thursday 29 September 2016 Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Dublin 2 6.30 p.m. Participants: Christodoulos Makris, Dennis McNulty , and Nick Thurston Moderator: Jessica Foley All welcome. No booking required.

Issue 6 of gorse is now out. It features original essays from Dylan Brennan, Liam Cagney, Dominique Cleary, Lauren Elkin, Oliver Farry, Daniel Fraser, Thomas McNally and Joanna Walsh; new fiction from Gavin Corbett, Lauren de Sa Naylor, John Holten, Bridget Penney and David Rose; an interview with Geoff Dyer by Rob Doyle; and an Irish language section (edited by new Irish language editor Aifric Mac Aodha ) with work from Simon Ó Faoláin & Colm Ó Ceallacháin. Poetry in gorse No. 6 comes from long-time contributor SJ Fowler in the form of 'Estates', four cross-referencing, border-hopping poems; recent work from Aodán McCardle representing reflections on a year's worth of language use and images encountered on various media; four new pieces by Julie Morrissy taken from a book-length work-in-progress; and three original poems in the Galician by Chus Pato, accompanied by translations from Keith Payne. Susan Tomaselli's editorial 'Je est un autre' revolves...

I was pleased to be invited by current editor Vona Groarke to contribute to a special issue of Poetry Ireland Review  titled 'The Rising Generation'. Much like The Poetry Book Society UK’s  Next Generation Poets, which is published once a decade,  Poetry Ireland Review 118: The Rising Generation  (April 2016) aims to offer "the most comprehensive, insightful and enjoyable overview of what we can expect of Irish poetry in the coming times." To this end,  Groarke selected thirty-six poets who published a first book or pamphlet in the past five years, with each poet represented by two pages of new poetry and their responses to a wide-ranging and generally light-spirited questionnaire. My poetry contribution consists of two excerpts ('trying to cook breakfast...' and 'In '87 Huey Lewis...') from a book-length work-in-progress composed using appropriative processes. Groarke writes in her  editorial : "I also acknowledge, as anthologists must...

Susan Tomaselli & I were recently interviewed by  3:AM Magazine' s Tristan Foster for a feature on  gorse . In response to his perceptive questions we discuss the journal's history, scope, outlook and goals, and offer thoughts on editing a print journal with an interest in experimental writing as well as related topics such as the potential of literature, the avant-garde, and "transgressing boundaries". We also announce plans for an associated imprint set to begin operations in 2017. A publishing statement will follow, but we were very happy to reveal that the first two titles will be an anthology of essays edited by Joanna Walsh , and Subcritical Tests , a book of collaborative poetry by Ailbhe Darcy & SJ Fowler . An excerpt from Subcritical Tests appeared in gorse No. 3. Below is Ailbhe Darcy & SJ Fowler at the Cork leg of Yes But Are We Enemies : The feature was published on Bloomsday 2016. Many thanks to Tristan Foster and to...

For the third edition of Phonica we will be joined by Michelle Hall , Keith Lindsay , Aodán McCardle , Michael Naghten Shanks , Dylan Tighe and Suzanne Walsh for a blend of sound, word, image and performance rooted in multidisciplinary practice and innovation. Phonica is a Dublin-based poetry and music venture with an emphasis on multiformity and the experimental. Curated and hosted by Christodoulos Makris and Olesya Zdorovetska , Phonica aims to provide an outlet for the exploration and presentation of new ideas, a space where practitioners from different artforms can converse, and an environment conducive to collaborative enterprise and improvisation. Phonica: Three 8pm, Wednesday 15 June 2016 Jack Nealons, 165 Capel Street, Dublin 1 Admission Free Michelle Hall is a visual artist who works with a variety of materials and processes and her work often takes the form of video with scripted voiceover. Throughout her practice she uses objects, images, details a...

On Friday 27 May we'll be at a secret location* as part of International Literature Festival Dublin 2016. I was delighted to be asked to programme this event, which I curated around the gorse tagline 'art in words' and which will feature Kimberly Campanello , Maria Fusco , Robert Herbert McClean  and Suzanne Walsh . 9pm start, entry €5.00 - Book Here . Full details below: gorse is “the most vital and outward-looking of Irish literary journals”, featuring long-form narrative essays, original fiction, poetry, interviews and more. An exploration of the potential of literature, gorse is interested in writing where lines between genres blur, and in intersections with other forms of art and culture. For this special event, curated by poetry editor Christodoulos Makris and taking place at a venue to be disclosed to ticket holders on the evening of the performance, gorse presents four writers whose work has appeared in its pages, and with connections to the audio-visual a...

I look forward to taking part in European Literature Night for the second year running , expanded and rebranded as European Literature Festival , this time representing Ireland at events in Edinburgh and London over 13-14 May 2016. I'm especially excited to be contributing to these showcases of the diversity of writing and compositional approaches that currently exists in the continent, and to highlight and celebrate the inclusive, cross-border and unhierarchical nature of these events. My participation is possible thanks to generous funding support from Culture Ireland. Edinburgh, Friday 13 May The Edinburgh edition , curated by Colin Herd, Theodora Danek and SJ Fowler, and presented by The Enemies Project on behalf of UNESCO Edinburgh City of Literature, will comprise two events: Part 1 : 5pm – 6.30pm at North Edinburgh Arts Centre, 15a Pennywell Road, Edinburgh, EH4 4TZ: Performances from selected poets involved in European Literature Night. Part 2 : 8pm - 10.30pm ...

We're in Belfast for Compass Lines #2 , where I'll be in conversation with Miriam Gamble and Nerys Williams, and where the poets will present their collaboration City of Two Suns , specially commissioned for the event and published that day by the Irish Writers Centre. In addition, earlier in the day they will deliver a joint writing workshop in the Ulster Museum to a group composed of participants in various existing writing classes in Belfast. Compass Lines is a writers’ exchange project aiming to establish links between writers and communities in the North and South of Ireland, while additionally examining relationships between the East and West of these islands, through workshops, public discussions, and the commissioning of new collaborative writing. Developed by poet, editor and curator Christodoulos Makris in collaboration with the Irish Writers Centre as producing organisation, and with the participation of the Crescent Arts Centre as partner venue. Compass Line...

Issue 5 of Poetry Ireland's literary pamphlet Trumpet  (Spring 2016) carries Michael S. Begnal's review of The Architecture of Chance  - in a piece also discussing Trevor Joyce's Rome's Wreck and Peter O'Neill's The Dark Pool . Begnal describes the book's devices as "similar perhaps to Dada, Oulipo or the more recent Flarf poets" and remarks that despite such practices often being looked upon as "rarefied or merely academic exercises" the work is in fact "deeply engaged with the world, at times outright political". He uses examples as varied in approach as 'XXXXX', 'From Something to Nothing', 'Prime Time' and 'Two Nudes' to discuss the book's concerns (its "wry socioeconomic critique" among others) and concludes with the view that The Architecture of Chance "manages to be continually engaging, often surprising, and frequently funny". My thanks to Michael Begnal for ...