Christodoulos Makris is "one of Ireland's leading contemporary explorers of experimental poetics" (The RTÉ Poetry Programme). His latest book of poetry is It Reeks of Radio, the result of his commissioned creative engagement with the RTÉ Radio archives held at University College Dublin, published by BLR Editions (UCD/MoLI) in September 2023. An exhibition of 14 panels visually contextualising this project as a work of visual and public poetry forms a long-term installation on the walls of The Newman Building at UCD. Some other recent publications include the books Contemporaneous Brand Strategy Document (Veer Books, 2023), this is no longer entertainment: A Documentary Poem (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2019), and The Architecture of Chance (Wurm Press, 2015) - a poetry book of the year for RTÉ Arena and 3:AM Magazine - as well as the poetry postcard set Browsing History (zimZalla avant objects, 2018) and the interactive digital poetry project sorry that you were not moved (Fallow Media, 2022) in collaboration with Kimberly Campanello. He has collaborated widely with other poets, writers, visual artists and musicians internationally, and his awards include a project commission from Irish Museum of Modern Art (2017); Digital Poet in Residence at StAnza Festival, Scotland (2017); Writer in Residence at Maynooth University (2018-19); Literature Project Award from the Arts Council of Ireland (2020); and the inaugural Joseph M. Hassett Creativity Bursary (poetry) from UCD (2021-22), among others. He is the poetry editor at gorse journal, and he devised and curated the groundbreaking exhibition and event programme Is this a poem? at Museum of Literature Ireland (February - July 2024).

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