Christodoulos Makris

‘ Literature is the question minus the answer. ’ gorse No. 7 is now out. Themed around the concept of 'codes', its cover art is as ever by Niall McCormack, and each copy comes with a 'one-time pad' for its decoding. The issue features essays from Scott Esposito, Jonathan Gibbs, John Z Komurki, Shona McCombes, and Pierre Senges (translated by Jacob Siefring); fiction from Chris Beausang, Owen Booth, Celine Fox, Anthony McGuinness, and CD Rose; Irish writing from Colm Breathnach & Liam Mac Cóil; and an interview with Alan Moore by Pádraig Ó Méalóid. I'm very happy to be publishing poetry from Cork-based Sheila Mannix in the form of 'Burning Boat', a long hybrid poem; three new poems, including a triptych, by Michael Naghten Shanks (Dublin); four poems by Brooklyn-based  Chris Campanioni  from his project 'The Internet is for Real'; and four visual erasure poems by  John Rodzvilla (Boston, MA). Susan Tomaselli's editorial 'Falsing...

My limited edition pamphlet if we keep drawing cartoons  was published by If a Leaf Falls Press earlier this month. If a Leaf Falls Press is a micropress run from Edinburgh by Sam Riviere , and publishes poetry with an emphasis on appropriative and arbitrary writing processes. Now in its Second Season, the press has since its inception in 2015 published simple, elegant pamphlets with work by some exciting writers and artists including Emily Berry, Crispin Best, nick-e melville, Maria Fusco, Rachael Allen and Sam Riviere himself. My thanks to Sam for inviting me to join this distinguished list. if we keep drawing cartoons is published in an edition of 36. It comprises ten untitled sections/extracts from the book-length work (in progress) I've been occupied with since mid-2014. As is the case with most of its titles, the press sold out of if we keep drawing cartoons very quickly. If a Leaf Falls Press publications are archived at The Poetry Library London...

I'm very happy to have new work,   as Featured Writer, in the latest issue (Vol 67, No. 1) of Icarus Magazine. Icarus  is a student magazine based at Trinity College Dublin. It is Ireland's longest running literary journal, still a print publication but with extended online versions of each issue. Founded in 1950 by Alec Reid, it has appeared three times a year since and publishes writing mainly by students, staff and alumni of the University. Former Icarus editors include Iain Sinclair, Maurice Scully, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, David Wheatley, Selina Guinness and Sue Rainsford, while some notable former contributors are Seamus Heaney, Louis MacNeice, Eavan Boland, Sinéad Morrissey, Justin Quinn, Thom Gunn, Colm Tóibín, Vona Groarke, Desmond Hogan and Kevin Barry. My contribution 'Five Poems' consists of five extracts from my ongoing book-length work concerned with among other things the concept of reading as a creative process. My thanks to current editors Wi...

My performance piece 'Work Sharing' appears in the all-audio issue 13 of Critical Bastards magazine . Critical Bastards is a creative art criticism magazine that engages with contemporary visual art, publishes writing by artists, and is committed to creating conversations between all parts of the island of Ireland. Past contributors include Dennis McNulty, Rebecca O'Dwyer, Jan Carson, Sarah Pierce, Maria Fusco and Adrian Duncan among many others. Commissioned by Critical Bastards co-editor Jennie Taylor, and performed and recorded in the morning of 5 October 2016, 'Work Sharing' is one of nine creative responses to the word 'Work' featured in issue 13. The other contributors are Sue Rainsford, Michelle Hall, Fiona Gannon, Renèe Helèna Browne, Jonathan Mayhew, RchlTrsRs: Re: Fwd: Re: Work, Rebecca Dunne & Eoghan McIntyre, and James Merrigan. My thanks to editors Lily Cahill, Deborah Madden, Jennie Taylor and Suzanne Walsh.  The issue was launc...

On Saturday 12 November I'll be reading along with Jane Clarke, Julie Morrissy and Ciaran O'Rourke in the Boys' School, Smock Alley Theatre, as part of  Poetry Ireland's 'The Rising Generation' event at Dublin Book Festival 2016 . DBF is this year celebrating its 10th anniversary. "Since its release in April 2016, writers featured in the critically acclaimed ‘The Rising Generation’ issue of Poetry Ireland Review have been invited to read at international festivals and book fairs in Dublin, London and Edinburgh. Now four more of the 36 new-generation poets featured in the Review – Jane Clarke , Christodoulos Makris , Julie Morrissy and Ciaran O’Rourke – will read their work at Dublin Book Festival at a relaxed Saturday event with music from Sive ." Saturday 12 November 3.30pm - 5.00pm Boys' School, Smock Alley Theatre Free Entry - Booking Required * Also as part of Dublin Book Festival, on Sunday 13 November Susan Tomaselli will repr...

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...