Christodoulos Makris
@cmakris.bsky.social
poet & writer
“one of Ireland’s foremost avant-garde poets” - The Irish Times
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com
“one of Ireland’s foremost avant-garde poets” - The Irish Times
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com
Tomorrow.
Some spaces still available I think.
Contact Swords Library to book a free place.
Some spaces still available I think.
Contact Swords Library to book a free place.
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Tomorrow.
Some spaces still available I think.
Contact Swords Library to book a free place.
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 👇
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...
Part of a nationwide fundraising campaign in collaboration with Irish Visual Artists for Gaza Culture Week 2025.
Donation link: www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/I...
October 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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 👇
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...
Part of a nationwide fundraising campaign in collaboration with Irish Visual Artists for Gaza Culture Week 2025.
Donation link: www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/I...
October 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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...
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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September 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Icarus Magazine 75th Anniversary Edition (Vol LXXV | Issue III)
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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, ...
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September 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Icarus Magazine 75th Anniversary Edition (Vol LXXV | Issue III)
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/09/icar...
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.
September 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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...
Ruth Keshishian: much loved bookshop owner dies at age 81
Ruth Keshishian, who had an encyclopedic knowledge and understanding of Cyprus’ history and literature, and owned the Moufflon Bookshop in Nicosia for decades, passed away on Wednesday night. She was ...
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August 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/dial.html
Christodoulos Makris
DIAL a durational writing, performance, recording and publication project (2021 - ongoing) About DIAL DIAL is a durational-procedural work o...
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July 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
New permanent page on my website about my durational, ongoing writing & performance project DIAL:
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/dial.html
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👇
Book through the link👇
Places filling up fast! Book your spot for this INSIGHTS
masterclass with @cmakris.bsky.social!
Sign yourself up here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/ins...
masterclass with @cmakris.bsky.social!
Sign yourself up here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/ins...
July 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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👇
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.
A packed house for our Books Upstairs reading in Dublin today! Éireann Lorsung, Christodoulos Makris, Christine and myself, // @christinemcnair.bsky.social @cmakris.bsky.social @eireannmor.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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.
Reposted by Christodoulos Makris
Are you in Ireland this month? Come out to hear these Canadian authors in Dublin!
rob mclennan (ON BEAUTY) and Christine McNair (Toxemia) read at Books Upstairs on July 13 at 2 pm with Irish poets Christodoulos Makris and Éireann Lorsung.
booksupstairs.ie/events/
#poetry #literature #events
rob mclennan (ON BEAUTY) and Christine McNair (Toxemia) read at Books Upstairs on July 13 at 2 pm with Irish poets Christodoulos Makris and Éireann Lorsung.
booksupstairs.ie/events/
#poetry #literature #events
July 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Are you in Ireland this month? Come out to hear these Canadian authors in Dublin!
rob mclennan (ON BEAUTY) and Christine McNair (Toxemia) read at Books Upstairs on July 13 at 2 pm with Irish poets Christodoulos Makris and Éireann Lorsung.
booksupstairs.ie/events/
#poetry #literature #events
rob mclennan (ON BEAUTY) and Christine McNair (Toxemia) read at Books Upstairs on July 13 at 2 pm with Irish poets Christodoulos Makris and Éireann Lorsung.
booksupstairs.ie/events/
#poetry #literature #events
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...
Transatlantic Poetry Salon at Books Upstairs, Dublin
It's a great pleasure to announce this very special reading at Books Upstairs , Dublin's oldest independent bookshop, taking place on Sunday...
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July 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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.
July 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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...
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...
June 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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...
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...
Reposted by Christodoulos Makris
in Dublin on July 13? feel like hearing some poems? please come to our 'transatlantic poetry salon' at @booksupstairs.bsky.social. it's @cmakris.bsky.social, @robmclennan.bsky.social, @christinemcnair.bsky.social and me. 2 p.m.; free. supported by @poetryireland.bsky.social, for which our thanks!
Transatlantic Poetry Salon | Poetry Ireland
Poetry Ireland - Connecting poetry and people
www.poetryireland.ie
June 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
in Dublin on July 13? feel like hearing some poems? please come to our 'transatlantic poetry salon' at @booksupstairs.bsky.social. it's @cmakris.bsky.social, @robmclennan.bsky.social, @christinemcnair.bsky.social and me. 2 p.m.; free. supported by @poetryireland.bsky.social, for which our thanks!
Reposted by Christodoulos Makris
🤖INSIGHTS – our sullen art: the poet after AI
Book this upcoming Online Masterclass with Christodoulos Makris (@cmakris.bsky.social)
🗓️ Thursday 16 October 2025, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
🎟️ Book: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/ins...
Book this upcoming Online Masterclass with Christodoulos Makris (@cmakris.bsky.social)
🗓️ Thursday 16 October 2025, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
🎟️ Book: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/ins...
June 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🤖INSIGHTS – our sullen art: the poet after AI
Book this upcoming Online Masterclass with Christodoulos Makris (@cmakris.bsky.social)
🗓️ Thursday 16 October 2025, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
🎟️ Book: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/ins...
Book this upcoming Online Masterclass with Christodoulos Makris (@cmakris.bsky.social)
🗓️ Thursday 16 October 2025, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
🎟️ Book: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/ins...
I’ll be reading with @eireannmor.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social & @christinemcnair.bsky.social.
Sunday 13 July 2pm @booksupstairs.bsky.social.
Free admission.
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...
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...
June 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I’ll be reading with @eireannmor.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social & @christinemcnair.bsky.social.
Sunday 13 July 2pm @booksupstairs.bsky.social.
Free admission.
Sunday 13 July 2pm @booksupstairs.bsky.social.
Free admission.
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?...
Charli xcx: The BRAT Interview | Apple Music
YouTube video by Apple Music
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June 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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?...
Reposted by Christodoulos Makris
thank you! just that dear spouse Christine McNair and I are reading at Books Upstairs (17 D’Olier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland, D02 RX06) on Sunday, July 13 at 2pm with Irish poets Christodoulos Makris and Éireann Lorsung; slowly wishing to get the word out!
June 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
thank you! just that dear spouse Christine McNair and I are reading at Books Upstairs (17 D’Olier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland, D02 RX06) on Sunday, July 13 at 2pm with Irish poets Christodoulos Makris and Éireann Lorsung; slowly wishing to get the word out!
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
SoundEye Festival of the Arts of the Word
if the eye be sound the fish is sweet
soundeye.wordpress.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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...
INSIGHTS | our sullen art: the poet after AI | a Poetry Ireland Masterclass
I was happy to accept an invitation from Poetry Ireland to host an INSIGHTS masterclass this autumn. 'our sullen art: the poet after AI,' my...
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New website post yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/05/insi...
We made a trailer youtu.be/UneDKoKGbgk
Christodoulos Makris - DIAL (from Chapter 5: May) with Lindsay / Mattrey / Roth @ Kirkos [trailer]
YouTube video by Christodoulos Makris
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May 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We made a trailer youtu.be/UneDKoKGbgk
Come Masterclass with me. Bookings now open.
INSIGHTS – our sullen art: the poet after AI 🤖
Online Masterclass with Christodoulos Makris
🗓️ Thursday 16 October 2025, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/insights-w...
Poet Christodoulos Makris hosts an online writing masterclass for poets at all stages this Autumn. @cmakris.bsky.social
Online Masterclass with Christodoulos Makris
🗓️ Thursday 16 October 2025, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/insights-w...
Poet Christodoulos Makris hosts an online writing masterclass for poets at all stages this Autumn. @cmakris.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Come Masterclass with me. Bookings now open.