Subscribe by Email

Mirror Lamp Press No.1: Happiness

A brand new specially-commissioned poem of mine with title 'Bandsalat (Verse Chorus Verse)' appears in the inaugural issue (April 2021) of Mirror Lamp Press, a new Dublin-based journal operating at the intersections of visual art and writing.

Mirror Lamp Press is a free quarterly magazine edited by Gwen Burlington and Eoghan McIntyre. Each issue explores the intersection of art and literature through newly commissioned texts and selected works of an illustrator or visual artist. It lives in the digital sphere and has been designed to be read online, with each issue made available as a freely downloadable PDF. If you fancy holding the words in your hands, we encourage you to print it too.

Each issue is formatted linguistically and features five sections under the headings Subject, Object, Verb, Word, and Place.


Issue 1 is themed around Happiness. My poem occupies the Object section as a response to the issue's theme through "a personal or art object." As the editors note in their editorial:

For Object, Christodoulos Makris has composed a poem, 'Bandsalat,' which roughly translates as 'tape jam,' in response to the Nirvana album Nevermind. It is an assemblage of sorts, constructed through a process of collecting, mixing and disassembling documentary and critical writing on the album and cassette culture of the time. Makris wrote it, coincidentally, before the inventor of the cassette tape, Lou Ottens died earlier this month.

Mirror Lamp Press No. 1: Happiness also features contributions from Laurence Counihan, Julia Dubsky, Chris Hayes, Ingrid Lyons, and Jenny Smith.

The issue was launched with a one hour radio show broadcast on Dublin Digital Radio on 28 March 2021 as a sonic counterpart  to the issue, in which the editors presented a compilation of audio bytes suggested by the contributors in a collage of formats - from songs, to film clips, to voice recordings, to readings - drew links between the selections and discussed relationships between happiness and culture:


My thanks to Eoghan and Gwen for this really exciting commission. You can support Mirror Lamp Press on their Patreon.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

sorry that you were not moved (Fallow Media, 2022)

Publication Title: sorry that you were not moved   Authors: Kimberly Campanello & Christodoulos Makris   Publisher: Fallow Media   Date of Publication: 10 February 2022 Availability: Free sorry that you were not moved is an interactive collaborative digital poetry publication by Kimberly Campanello and Christodoulos Makris exploring space-time dimensions of travel through experimental-appropriative writing strategies and audiovisual interventions. It was created in collaboration with Ian Maleney of Fallow Media, inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities , and made with the support of an Arts Council Literature Project Award. CLICK HERE to travel. Dear reader, After several months navigating digital space-time in intertextual collusion with Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities , we present these mementoes of what we encountered on our voyages. The engines of our digital travels were fired by diverse strategies and they landed us both nowhere and everywhere. All reflect and con
Read more

some mark made

some mark made is a new limited edition publication that considers hybrid, material and intellectually rigorous literary practices. Edited by  Sue Rainsford , it features "experimental and speculative writing in the veins of poetry, prose and criticism from Claire Farley, Shauna Barbosa, Caroline Doolin, Michael Naghten Shanks, Michelle Hall, Jonelle Mannion, Christodoulos Makris, Julie Morrissy and Sue Rainsford." Rainsford writes in her editorial: "Often, when literary activity foregrounds its visual or tactile elements, when it embraces process or takes place away from the immediate terrain of the page, it’s ascribed titles such as ‘hybrid’, ‘performative’ or ‘experimental’. These terms seem to soften boundary lines so that bodies of writing can be intuitive rather than narrative, sensory rather than descriptive. It is worth remembering, however, that literature is by nature expansive, tactile and interrogative." My contribution to some mark made  bears the
Read more

Great Poets Steal

Great Poets Steal: a collaborative writing workshop with Christodoulos Makris Blanchardstown Library, Dublin 15 2pm, Saturday 20 April 2013 "The act of choosing and reframing tells us as much about ourselves as a story about our mother’s cancer operation" - Kenneth Goldsmith , 'Uncreative Writing' Its concept stolen from Steven Fowler's Patchwork Renga workshop conducted at the Poetry Library in London last June, and its title from the famous (mis)quote attributed to TS Eliot, this collaborative writing workshop aims to exercise the faculties of selecting and connecting text. My intention is to encourage a lively environment in which participants will work together towards composing a series of poems out of material 'borrowed' from the shelves of Blanchardstown Library. (In the first part all participants will go hunting among the library shelves and steal lines of their choice out of books of their choice from predetermined sections of the libr
Read more