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this is no longer entertainment, a Dostoyevsky Wannabe event

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this is no longer entertainment (A Documentary Poem)
by Christodoulos Makris
Published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 7.30pm.
Free Entry.

A celebration of the publication of this is no longer entertainment by Christodoulos Makris. Joining the author with guest readings are Nadia de Vries, Colin Herd, Dominic Jaeckle, and Joanna Walsh. Sounds courtesy of Dostoyevsky Wannabe Invisible DJs. The event is hosted by Susan Tomaselli, and it is kindly supported by The School of English, DCU.

About the book: this is no longer entertainment is formed entirely out of untreated anonymous or pseudonymous text found in the open comments sections of media websites and other digital platforms. It was composed by filtering this un-authored writing through a process of immediate, instinctive selection and reframing, which is inevitably modulated by the author’s interests and emotional temperature. The poem’s composition roughly covers the period 2014-2017; a period marked by a range of notable social-political shifts and events.
“A starkly innovative, by turns funny and worrying book” – Karl Whitney

About the author: Christodoulos Makris is “one of Ireland’s leading contemporary explorers of experimental poetics” (The RTÉ Poetry Programme). He has published several books, pamphlets, artists’ books and other poetry objects, with The Architecture of Chance (Wurm Press, 2015) a poetry book of the year for RTÉ Arena and 3:AM Magazine. He has presented his work internationally, and has received awards, commissions and residencies from the Irish Museum of Modern Art, StAnza Festival (Scotland), European Poetry Festival, and Maynooth University among others. He is the poetry editor at gorse journal and associated imprint Gorse Editions.
About the publisher: Dostoyevsky Wannabe is an experimental independent press publishing books and other underground things, based in Manchester. It is operated by Victoria Brown & Richard Brammer.

gorse no. 10 launch

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Please join us in celebrating the launch of GORSE No. 10, on Wednesday 29 August 2018, in Studio 6 at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, with readings from the issue by Christodoulos Makris, Gregory Betts, and Colin Graham, plus a screening of a film by Lies Van Gasse and Rosalind Buck. Free to attend, refreshments available.

Small press

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In the current print edition of The Idler (58), David Collard ‘has a perfect day with Little Island Press and Gorse magazine.’ Collard, an early champion of Eimear McBride, wanders through Dublin (‘In Ireland at the end of September I spent a day that I wouldn’t mind repeating endlessly, Groundhog-style…’), taking in sites mentioned in Flann O’Brien’s Dalkey Archive, as well as the launch of David Hayden’s Darker With the Lights On. Of gorse, he writes:

Shedding Poetry’s National Baggage

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Christodoulos Makris writing for Versopolis:

…If and when it enters the public arena, poetry becomes a vehicle for the propagation of the nation state, a tourist promotion of sorts.

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Increasingly in our aggressively nationalist times, inwardness is thought of as high virtue; insularity and stubbornness of vision are promoted as signs of a courageous up-holding of supposedly threatened heritage and values. But if an insular or marginalised community finds itself wielding a dominance of sorts, a force to be exerted upon the further-marginalised, where to for inwardness then? In what way is power to be understood?

 

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