Christodoulos Makris

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...

The opening eight pages of my new long poem 'Hallucinations' are featured in the third issue of fallow  (spring 2026). fallow is a biannual journal of literature publishing in Dublin, edited by Ian Maleney and Maija Mäkelä. It is produced by Fallow Media , a literary publisher and digital platform founded by Maleney in 2015 to support and promote adventurous, ambitious work from across the artistic spectrum. It is distinguished by an exploratory, international outlook. (In 2022 Fallow Media produced and released my project  sorry that you were not moved , a longform digital poetry collaboration with Kimberly Campanello, which The Arts Council of Ireland profiled  as a groundbreaking work of digital literature.) fallow 03   also features work from Hélène Bessette (trans. Kate Briggs), François Bonnet (in conversation with Ian Maleney), Mira Mattar, Philippa Snow, Adrian Duncan, Katerina Gogou (trans. Konstantina Georganta), Alice Blackhurst, Charlotte Buckley, a...

After a long gestation period, I'm very pleased to share that issues 12 and 13 of gorse   are now available. gorse No. 12 is predominantly concerned with Language and Translation, and I'm delighted to be including in it poetry from Ray Malone , Silvina Ocampo  in translation by Caitlin Newby , Jérémie C. Wenger , Sujatha Menon , Martin Jackson , and Ghazal Mosadeq . Some of these poets have been waiting a long time for the release of the issue featuring their work, and I thank them particularly for their patience. Issue 13 is themed around the notion(s) of Taboo, with poetry contributions from Michael Chang , Viviana Fiorentino , Will Fleming ,  Özgecan Kesici-Ayoubi , and Lianne O'Hara . The issue also features prose contributions from several poets. These latest issues are currently available to order from selected bookshops ; they will also be available to purchase directly from the gorse shop soon, pending a website update. As ever, I'm grateful to all the above...

This spring I will lead an 8-week course with title 'writing as a reader / reading as a writer.' The course is offered as part of the Irish Writers Centre Academy 's Spring 2026 programme. This is an online course. Beginning on Thursday 5 March 2026, it will run weekly between 6.30pm - 8.30pm Dublin time. Limited spaces available. Book your place here . Full course information on the IWC website , and below. Course Summary: As poets and writers we are first and foremost readers mediating external material, text and otherwise, in the process of making new work. And as readers operating in the digital age we are increasingly aware of the creative potential of reading and repurposing. In ‘writing as a reader / reading as a writer’ participants will exercise their capacity to read creatively, critically and intuitively, and to employ source material directly towards literary composition. This is a generative course incorporating regular writing tasks underpinned by carefully se...

The Autumn/Winter 2025 issue of Irish University Review (Vol 55 No. 2) published in January 2026 carries two distinct contributions from me: The first is an interview I gave to Lucy Collins, Associate Professor of Modern Poetry at University College Dublin and editor of Irish University Review , reflecting on my curatorial project 'Is this a poem?' at Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). It bookends the exhibition nicely since a public conversation with Lucy was a core element of its launch on 23 February 2024. This interview revisits some of the themes of that initial, undocumented conversation. It is based on the transcript of a new post-project conversation we recorded at MoLI for the museum's digital channel, RadioMoLI , in June 2025. From the introduction: This conversation between Lucy Collins and Christodoulos Makris began as a podcast for Radio MoLI, discussing I s This a Poem? Adventures on the Edge of an Art Form , an ambitious and innovative exhibition, curate...

I was very happy to contribute a new poem with informal title 'Locomotion' to the fifth issue of Éireann Lorsung 's wonderful micro-publishing project Abundant Number . Abundant Number  5 was published in November 2025, and my contribution was commissioned for the recurring 'Day by Day' section. "Assembled on both sides of the Atlantic from parts made all over the world," Abundant Number is an irregular, low-fi publication described as "a way of making books together that prioritizes small scale production and material, tactile pleasure." Each issue contains text and images, including a classifieds section. Some include unbound ephemera; others take the form of a staple-bound booklet. Lorsung writes: " Abundant Number is something between a table of zines at a punk fair, a case of mail-art and Fluxus ephemera at a museum, and the chapbooks we make for our friends. Think about this more as a newspaper of the very local, or as a weather rep...

A couple of weeks ago I recorded a short excerpt from a new long poem of mine called 'Hallucinations' for the December 2025 edition of Jennifer Redmond & Matthew Geden 's monthly hourlong radio show The Expanded Field, broadcasting on éist radio. éist is a Cork-based volunteer-run internet radio collective dedicated to fostering creativity, collaboration, and community engagement through digital radio. In The Expanded Field , "strategies of poetic creation are debated and extended by audio effects. Aesthetic and ethical boundaries are pushed out and beyond the page." 'The Expanded Field - Baa Boo Humbug' was broadcast at 4pm on Wednesday 17 December 2025 as a mix of experimental sounds, music, interview, poetry and live performance. My section runs for approximately 7 minutes and it's accompanied by sounds from Irene Murphy and Mick O'Shea . Thanks to Jenny for soliciting my contribution. Broadcast information, including a breakdown of the li...

I was pleased to be able to formalise an almost decade-long association with New Jersey / New York writer, poet and multimedia artist  Chris Campanioni  through a commissioned conversation for  Books Ireland magazine. The resulting 6,500 word piece exploring the in-conversation format as collaborative enterprise and literary genre has the title  'Work That Happens Elsewhere,'  and it was published on 5 December 2025. From the introduction: After almost a decade of correspondence, exchange of work and editorial activities, Chris Campanioni (New Jersey) and Christodoulos Makris (Dublin) met in person in New York City in January 2025, cementing a mutual understanding of their work, in particular how it shares strong kinship and an interest in fiercely contemporary culture and poetics. In this transatlantic in-conversation piece, composed remotely between 26 September and 05 November 2025, the poets reflect on each other’s work and their shared intermedial, cross-d...

On Friday 21 November 2025 I performed a live hour-long version of Chapter 11: November from my ongoing durational project DIAL , this time in collaboration just with Keith Lindsay on electronics and live radio feedback. The performance took place in The Depot, The Complex Arts Centre’s large warehouse performance space, and it was part of Kirkos' takeover of The Depot Sessions . Kirkos is a music group from Dublin, as well as the operator of a DIY venue with a radically open approach to programming.  The Complex is the only multi-disciplinary arts centre in Dublin's north inner city, combining seventeen studios, a large warehouse performance space and a gallery. * A four-and-a-half-hour live extravaganza with performances of various kinds and durations happening at times simultaneously within The Depot, this was a wonderfully conceived and delivered event with a borderless, communal, quasi-anarchic, and ego-free vibe not often encountered in Dublin, taking its cue from the...