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...

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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.

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

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...

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!

🤖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...

I’ll be reading with @eireannmor.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social & @christinemcnair.bsky.social. 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?...

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

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...

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...

"It Reeks of Radio" is a book-length poem by Christodoulos Makris, composed entirely from fragments of communication around historical (pre-1980s) RTÉ Radio programming using the RTÉ Radio Scripts Collection. shop.moli.ie/products/it-reeks-of-radio

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.

Limerick friends: come to our collaborative x-disciplinary project & performance for violin, keyboard & voice. Data Poetry & Data Sonification in response to Ireland’s housing crisis. Ormston House, Sat 22 March, 5pm. Details & booking through the link. yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

Pleased to be asked to host this event on Saturday in Balbriggan Library in north county Dublin. To book a place please contact the library @fingal.ie.

After Mikey Madison’s Oscar hopefully more people will (re)discover Pamela Adlon’s Better Things, a gem of a TV series and one of the best of the past decade.

My review of this necessary book is here: Read the review, buy the book. Or cut out the middleman and just buy the book.

I was commissioned by Cuirt Festival to produce a new poem + intervention for its 40th anniversary (8-13 Apr) through the fest archives: ‘Diachronic Bonhomie’ will be scattered across the festival sites. And I’ll be in conversation with Padraig Regan on 11 Apr. Tickets: www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/dia...

My second book The Architecture of Chance was published 10 years ago today. It was named as a 2015 poetry book of the year by RTE Arena and 3:AM Magazine.

The White Lotus S3. Can’t wait.

UbuWeb is back ubuweb.com

Poets & cross disciplinary writers: apply. Happy to be on the list of available mentors once again this year.

Primed for new commission research trip.

Found poetry fragments/notes on crumpled paper in pocket from last year’s poetry as commemoration workshop at the Museum of Literature lead by @cmakris.bsky.social - It was not my best day and also, it seems, I cannot write under pressure :)