Christodoulos Makris
poet & writer
“one of Ireland’s foremost avant-garde poets” - The Irish Times
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com
- 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-...
- Interview + new poem in the latest issue of Irish University Review. More: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2026/01/iris...
- Final web post of the year, on Abundant Number: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/12/abun...
- 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-...
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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.
- ‘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...
- 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...
- g13 is here! More details on issues 12 & 13 soon.
- 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...
- Doing the Locomotion for @eireannmor.bsky.social for 31 consecutive days last summer.
- 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
- Tomorrow. Some spaces still available I think. Contact Swords Library to book a free place.
- 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 👇
- 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...
- 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...
- PS You can sign up to receive my occasional news & updates here: follow.it/christodoulo...
- Icarus Magazine 75th Anniversary Edition (Vol LXXV | Issue III) yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/09/icar...
- 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.
- Very sad news. Ruth was a huge supporter of my work, and of many leftfield writers & artists connected with the Eastern Mediterranean. She sponsored one of the very few readings I gave in Nicosia, at Maria Toumazou’s gallery space in 2017. I will miss our chats. cyprus-mail.com/2025/08/07/r...
- New permanent page on my website about my durational, ongoing writing & performance project DIAL: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/dial.html
- For the avoidance of doubt, this won’t be a workshop on how to make poems using AI, but a practical-critical thinking through of the implications of the advent of AI for poets and poetry, without succumbing to either blind optimism or sheer panic. Book through the link👇
- Thanks to everyone who came out to @booksupstairs.bsky.social on this warm Sunday afternoon. A joy to read with @robmclennan.bsky.social @eireannmor.bsky.social & @christinemcnair.bsky.social. My thanks also to @poetryireland.bsky.social for partnering on the event.
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- This Sunday 13 July @booksupstairs.bsky.social I’ll be reading w/ @eireannmor.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social & @christinemcnair.bsky.social. A pleasure to put this special reading together, gratefully supported by @poetryireland.bsky.social. Come! yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/07/tran...
- Great to have a chance to test out some rather glitchy new poetry for an audience attuned to radical approaches at SoundEye Festival in Cork last Saturday. Thanks to Trevor, Fergal & Ellen + crew for having me. Some of that material coming out in print in a couple of outlets in the autumn.
- Just back from a weekend in Stuttgart where I led workshops & recorded an interview at The University of Stuttgart. This coming weekend I’ll be heading to Cork to read at UCC as part of the 2025 revival edition of SoundEye festival. More: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/06/soun...
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- I’ll be reading with @eireannmor.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social & @christinemcnair.bsky.social. Sunday 13 July 2pm @booksupstairs.bsky.social. Free admission.
- Poetry Ireland is excited to announce the Transatlantic Poetry Salon! A special event of readings from Éireann Lorsung, Christodoulos Makris, Rob Mclennan & Christine McNair. 📆July 13th @ 14:00 in Books Upstairs, 17 D'Olier Street, Dublin 2 www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/tra...
- I’ve watched many of these Apple Music interviews and they’re mostly pretty bland, actually. This though with Charli is brilliant. youtu.be/LgBMFg7ZgJw?...
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- SoundEye festival is making a return next month, for the first time since 2017. If you’re in Cork I’ll be reading on Saturday 5 July at UCC with Gonca Özmen, Peter Manson & Nisha Ramayya. With thanks to Ellen Dillon, Trevor Joyce & Fergal Gaynor. More: soundeye.wordpress.com
- New website post yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/05/insi...
- We made a trailer youtu.be/UneDKoKGbgk
- Come Masterclass with me. Bookings now open.
- The full 60 minute performance from my durational writing project DIAL (from Chapter 5: May) at the new Kirkos space on 1 May, with sonic interventions from Joanna Mattrey, Nick Roth & Keith Lindsay, was recorded and will be broadcast today 4pm on Dublin Digital Radio, presented by Diatribe Records.
- DIAL-a-band
- Tonight at the new Kirkos space. Pay what you can (suggested donation €5)
- Join us on Thursday 1 May 2025 at the brand new Kirkos venue in central Dublin for a 60 minute performance from Chapter 5 (May) of my durational writing project DIAL, with sonic interventions from Joanna Mattrey, Nick Roth and Keith Lindsay. More: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/04/dial...
- Join us on Thursday 1 May 2025 at the brand new Kirkos venue in central Dublin for a 60 minute performance from Chapter 5 (May) of my durational writing project DIAL, with sonic interventions from Joanna Mattrey, Nick Roth and Keith Lindsay. More: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/04/dial...
- New books this week from two friends and collaborators: ‘LllOovVee - Forbid me my love’ by Aodán McCardle, with Veer: veer2.org/Aodan-McCard... ‘An Interesting Detail’ by Kimberly Campanello, with Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/interesti... Big congratulations to both!
- Some more images from my event & poetry installation at Cuirt festival in Galway last week. Next up: a live performance from my durational writing project DIAL in collaboration with musicians & sound artists Joanna Mattrey, Nick Roth & Keith Lindsay in central Dublin. Details very soon.
- ‘Diachronic Bonhomie’, my poem + #cuirt40 #poetry commission/intervention, will be installed around #Galway city for the duration of #Cuirt International Festival of Literature starting today. More details - including a sneak peek of section 1: [media]: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/04/diac...
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- My poem + poetry intervention ‘Diachronic Bonhomie’ at Cuirt Festival goes live across Galway City next week. And I’ll be in conversation with Padraig Regan on 11 April. Tickets through the link. With thanks to Cuirt director Manuela Moser for the commission. www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/dia...
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- Tomorrow.
