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Christodoulos Makris

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poet & writer “one of Ireland’s foremost avant-garde poets” - The Irish Times yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com

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Reminder #2:

My course ‘writing as a reader / reading as a writer’ begins on Thursday 5 March. Part of the Irish Writers Centre Academy’s Spring 2026 programme. Online. A couple of spots left.

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02.03.2026 15:49 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
gorse 15: Eureka!/EYPHKA! | gorse gorse 15: Eureka!/EYPHKA!

Reminder #1:

We’re open for submissions to issue 15 of gorse until this coming Friday 6 March. Read our call-out & submission guidelines, and send me your exceptional poetry.

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Some of the texts I’ll be using to illustrate approaches and generative ideas in my upcoming 8-week course ‘writing as a reader / reading as a writer’ for @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social.

Starts 5 March. Book through the link: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

23.02.2026 15:35 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Starts in 2 weeks. Course info including weekly outline, and to book a place, here: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ... @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

19.02.2026 14:46 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Work That Happens Elsewhere - Books Ireland WORK THAT HAPPENS ELSEWHERE Chris Campanioni and Christodoulos Makris in conversation (Image: Tyndall, Sound (1869), Chladni plate) After almost a decade of correspondence, exchange of work and…

Check out this transatlantic Q&A with DRIFT NET author @chriscampanioni.bsky.social and poet @cmakris.bsky.social! The poets reflect on each other's work, their approaches to poetry in digital dynamics, and an avant-garde sensibility shaped by migration:

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We're open to submissions next Friday (13th February) for gorse 15: Eureka!/EYPHKA! Full details on the website:
gorse.ie/gorse-15-eur...

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Taking pre-orders for gorses 12 + 13:

gorse.ie/book/no-12/

gorse.ie/book/no-13/

(Double release, like Tom Waits' Alice + Blood Money.)

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My new 8-week course ‘writing as a reader / reading as a writer’ is offered through the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Academy (Spring 2026 programme). This is an online course, and it starts on 5 March. Limited spaces. Full details and booking link: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...

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Interview + new poem in the latest issue of Irish University Review. More: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2026/01/iris...

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Abundant Number 5 I was very happy to contribute a new poem with informal title 'Locomotion' to the fifth issue of Éireann Lorsung 's wonderful micro-publishi...

Final web post of the year, on Abundant Number: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/12/abun...

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The Expanded Field + SERIES 04:

Last week I presented new work for a radio broadcast (Cork), and took part in a reading (Dublin).

More: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

23.12.2025 18:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Work That Happens Elsewhere - Books Ireland Poets Christodoulos Makris (Dublin) and Chris Campanioni (New Jersey) in conversation.

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. Here, they reflect on each other's work.
@cmakris.bsky.social
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I’ll be reading at Kirkos, Little Green St, D7, tomorrow Thursday 18/12 for SERIES 04. Curated by Yagmur Akyurek. This is the first iteration of the series in Dublin after 3 editions in New York. Free admission.

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Work That Happens Elsewhere: in-conversation in Books Ireland magazine I was pleased to be able to formalise an almost decade-long association with New Jersey / New York writer, poet and multimedia artist  Chris...

‘Work That Happens Elsewhere’: a transatlantic conversation w/ @chriscampanioni.bsky.social in @booksireland.bsky.social exploring a shared approach to poetry rooted in digital, documentary & pop culture dynamics. Thanks to @ruthmckee.bsky.social. More: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/12/work...

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Full audio of my set from my ongoing durational project DIAL (Chapter 11: November) with Keith Lindsay on electronics, on 21 November at The Complex for The Depot Sessions curated by Kirkos, plus a note on the FLUXUS / John Cage inspired session, here: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/12/dial...

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g13 is here!

More details on issues 12 & 13 soon.

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Two sections from my fifth book IT REEKS OF RADIO along with their translations into Greek by Despina Pirketti are featured in the latest issue of @mptmagazine.bsky.social edited by Jessica Sequeira.

More: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/12/mode...

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Doing the Locomotion for @eireannmor.bsky.social for 31 consecutive days last summer.

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Christodoulos Makris DIAL a durational writing, performance, recording and publication project (2021 - ongoing) About DIAL DIAL is a durational-procedural work o...

About DIAL: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/dial.html

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KIRKOSKIRKOS

Come to a new hourlong performance from my ongoing durational writing project DIAL (Chapter 11: November) w/ sound interventions from Keith Lindsay, closing this Friday’s FLUXUS / John Cage inspired extravaganza programmed by Kirkos at The Complex. Tickets: www.thecomplex.ie/event/kirkos

19.11.2025 13:24 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Tomorrow.

Some spaces still available I think.

Contact Swords Library to book a free place.

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Irish Visual Artists for Gaza Culture Week (20-26 October) is here.

If in Dublin consider coming to this on Wednesday at The Gutter Bookshop in Temple Bar. Free to attend, voluntary donation through the link 👇

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I’ll be reading with Jill Kenny & Róisín Power Hackett on 22 October at Gutter Bookshop, Dublin. Thanks to Róisín for the invitation.

Part of a nationwide fundraising campaign in collaboration with Irish Visual Artists for Gaza Culture Week 2025.

Donation link: www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/I...

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Icarus Magazine 75th Anniversary Edition (Vol LXXV | Issue III) I was happy to contribute new work to the landmark 75th Anniversary Edition of Icarus , Trinity College Dublin's student literary magazine, ...

Icarus Magazine 75th Anniversary Edition (Vol LXXV | Issue III)
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Have some new work in the recently published landmark 75th anniversary edition of Icarus magazine (Trinity College Dublin), in the ‘featured writers’ section, taken from a book length work in progress - and a brand new bio (all true more or less). Thanks to eds Cat & Louise for the invitation.

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