11 April,
Poetry /
Diachronic Bonhomie: A Cúirt Poetry Commission
Friday, 11 April 2025, 4:30pm
The Mick Lally Theatre / €12.00 | €10.00
Book NowA special 40th anniversary poetry intervention spanning time, place, mood and media.
Responding to 40 years of Cúirt through the Festival’s archival repositories, Christodoulos Makris has produced an original poem in seven sections, installed across the sites of the festival. Visit all seven of the festival venues to piece together the text of the full poem, presented as visual broadsheets and audio contributions.
Join Christodoulos in conversation with Padraig Regan where he will discuss the process and thinking behind his poem, and more broadly the practice of making poetry through historical and contemporary archives, often employing text and other documentary elements directly and working beyond the page across physical and digital media.
Christodoulos Makris is the author of five books of poetry – most recently Contemporaneous Brand Strategy Document (Veer Books, 2023) and It Reeks of Radio (BLR Editions, 2023) – as well as several limited edition pamphlets, artists’ books, digital projects and other poetry objects, including the interactive digital poetry publication sorry that you were not moved (Fallow Media, 2022) in collaboration with Kimberly Campanello. His work has appeared in Granta, The Stinging Fly, The Guardian, The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, and elsewhere, and his awards include Writer in Residence at Maynooth University, a Project Commission from Irish Museum of Modern Art, a Poetry Commission from University College Dublin, and an Artist Residency at Irish Arts Center, New York. His many editorial and curatorial credits include the mixed media exhibition and programme of events ‘Is this a poem?’ which ran between February and September 2024 at Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI).
