Christodoulos Makris

On Thursday 5 November I will be reading some new work at 'New Frequencies - Poetry in a Digital Age' for this year's landmark 20th edition of Dublin Book Festival . Taking place in Belvedere Library on St Patrick's Campus of Dublin City University (DCU), this event sits in the middle of a day-long, four-event programme at the University with title 'Literature in the Digital Age' . DCU is partnering with Dublin Book Festival for the third year running, with the programme , curated by DCU Cultural Arts Officer Marcella Bannon and 2026 DCU/Arts Council Writer in Residence Colin Barrett, aiming to consider "the future of the written word and storytelling in an increasingly digital world." 'New Frequencies - Poetry in a Digital Age' also features Kit Fryatt and Bebe Ashley: "At this lunchtime event, poets Kit Fryatt, Christodoulos Makris, and Bebe Ashley perform original work responding to our festival theme, Literature and the Digital Age. Di...

I look forward to returning to Prague Microfestival for its 18th annual edition, eleven years after my first participation in 2015 . This year's edition is titled 'Erasurism'. It takes place over the weekend 30 October - 1 November 2026 at HYB4 - Kampus Hybernská (Sklep E)  in the heart of Prague. Prague Microfestival is an annual festival fusing contemporary writing, art, film, theory, dance, music and performance. It originated as the successor of the Prague International Poetry Festival (2004) and it "remains integrated within local Prague culture, as a multilingual environment fostering critical cultural dialogue." The 2026 festival programme includes video screenings, installations, book launches, dance performances, music sets, workshops and live poetry readings among other forms of contribution from authors and performers based across the world. The format of the main poetry readings this year requires short sets from each participant on each of the eve...

Following my Masterclass for Poetry Ireland's INSIGHTS series last year , I'm pleased to be leading another session for the series this autumn. 'I do this, I do that: Sampling the Everyday' is a two-hour workshop blending example, discussion and generative exercise. It will once again take place online, and it's therefore accessible from anywhere in the world. The date is Monday 23 November with a 6.30pm start (Dublin time). Tickets cost €20 + booking fee. INSIGHTS is an occasional series of workshops and masterclasses hosted by Poetry Ireland - Ireland's national organisation for poetry . With thanks to Operations Manager Barry Lennon, Director Claire Power and the PI team for the repeat invitation. Places are limited. Full description and booking link below: 'I do this, I do that': Sampling the Everyday Online Masterclass Monday 23 November | 6.30pm - 8.30pm Tickets: €20 + booking fee [ BOOK HERE ] How do we square connection and originality in our po...

I'm very pleased to be partnering with Fingal Libraries, Fingal Arts Office and the official Irish EU Presidency 2026 Cultural Programme ( Cultúr 2026 ) to conceive, programme and host 'The Language Hub: Poetry and Translation' - an activity consisting of four linked sessions with guests from across Europe and from Ireland. The date is Saturday 3 October, and the venue is The Chapel, Swords Castle , in north county Dublin. Full details and booking link below: The Language Hub: Poetry and Translation Saturday 3 October 2026 11am - 4pm The Chapel, Swords Castle, Swords, Co Dublin Free Admission - booking recommended [ BOOK HERE ] As part of Cultúr 2026 - the country-wide cultural programme celebrating Ireland's EU presidency - poet Christodoulos Makris has curated a series of four linked sessions on poetry and translation that explore connectivity through language. Centred on language as a means of connection and cultural exchange, the programme will explore how poetry c...

On Thursday 24 September I will perform Chapter 9 from my ongoing durational project DIAL as part of the programme for the 14th edition of Sardam International Interdisciplinary Literature Festival in Limassol, Cyprus. Scheduled as the opening performance event of this year's festival, DIAL (Chapter 9: September) will also feature sonic interventions from two of my regular collaborators: Joanna Mattrey on viola, and Keith Lindsay on electronics. Our start time is 8pm, and the performance duration will be 60 minutes exactly. The venue is Palio Xydadiko (Old Vinegar Factory)  at Genethliou Mitella 34, Lemesos. Admission is free, but booking is required. Please see the festival website for reservation details. For more about DIAL see here . Our participation in Sardam 2026 is made possible through generous funding support from Culture Ireland - Ireland’s national agency for the promotion of the arts and culture. Sardam (meaning "verbal slip" in Greek) is an annual, o...

Big thanks to everyone who made  the pilot edition of re:verb   such a joyous and remarkable experience: participating poets and artists, design and technical support, venue, bookshop, audience(s). It was a genuine pleasure to organise, programme, direct and host. Wonderful also to see a full or near-full house at all five sessions. An article on Asymptote journal - a leading online platform for international literature and translation - called re:verb "a daring and much needed enterprise" and "a one-of-a-kind literary festival in Ireland (and possibly the world)." I put together a short documentary of re:verb 2026 which I hope captures something of its spirit and vibe. Though you really had to be there. You can view it on YouTube  (with accompanying information and credits) or below.

Earlier this month I contributed a performative paper at the international conference 'Poetry's Environments' organised and hosted by  Poetry@Leeds  at The University of Leeds. The conference took place over three days (9-11 June 2026) at Cloth Court Hall in Leeds city centre and the University of Leeds campus. Convened by a team headed by Kimberly Campanello , Professor of Poetry and Director of Poetry@Leeds,  'Poetry's Environments' aimed to "consider poetry that addresses the natural environment and the environments in which poetry is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied" by bringing together "international poets, critics, translators, archivists, activists, textual editors, digital specialists, literary professionals, and individuals, groups and organisations involved in poetry and its environments". My contribution was part of a panel called 'Marks & Materials 1' which also included readings and presentati...

Last summer I travelled to Stuttgart on an invitation from Dr Jessica Bundschuh of the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at The University of Stuttgart, where over Friday 27 and Saturday 28 June 2025 I led a series of generative poetry workshop sessions in partnership with Cork-based poet Molly Twomey for around 60 participants composed of University students and 5th grade students from Dillmann Gymnasium. The title of our collaborative workshop project was 'The Mediated Self' and it consisted of three individually-led sessions each: mine focusing on sampling, collaborative writing, ekphrasis, collaging, and related poetics. My session 'Find a Pop Icon' in particular, spread over two days, was the source of much discussion, amusement, tumult and creative engagement from the students. My reading of the 132-line long collaborative, communal 'exquisite corpse' poem in its entirety, which I set for the class at the outset and which was contributed to b...

On Thursday 28 May I will be at Belfast School of Art in the centre of Belfast where I will deliver a multimedia performance based on my new long poem 'The Ugly Truth'. This performance will take place in the street-facing Glass Box Gallery at 6pm, and it is programmed as part of a two-poet event with title 'Aggregate Inventions', also featuring Máighréad Medbh . Presented by Macha Press in partnership with Belfast School of Art, 'Aggregate Inventions' is a combined experimental poetry/art event commissioned by Natasha Cuddington of Macha Press and  Chérie Driver , Deputy Head of Belfast School of Art, and devised in collaboration between myself and Máighréad Medbh. From the event publicity: Join Máighréad Medbh and Christodoulos Makris for what is sure to be a one-of-a-kind evening of poetry and art performances. ‘The Ugly Truth’, by Christodoulos Makris, is one of four long poems constituting a new book-length work with title nobody is going to be unique : a...

I'm excited to announce that this summer I'm piloting a small festival of contemporary poetry and the verbal arts in Dublin: re:verb  is a platform showcasing poetry and verbal art that predominantly strays from the mainstream, and aims to expand the potential of live literature. Its purpose is to offer an outlet and an encouragement for new forms and approaches to the making and presentation of contemporary poetry and literature that privilege liveness and vibrancy. And as a small poetry/verbal arts festival, re:verb  aims to operate on a model that relies on a communal, artist- and audience-centred stake in its workings. The dates of this year's edition are 5-6 June 2026 . At-a-glance programme information above, with links to tickets, as well as artist details, below. The idea is that, if all goes well and there's demonstrable appetite for it from every direction, re:verb will potentially become an annual fixture. re:verb is, in its current form at least, a zero-bu...