(b. 1989) Poet, publisher, and translator from Aotearoa New Zealand. Chris founded and directs Compound Press, as well as Minarets poetry journal. He received his MA(Hons) in linguistics from the University of Auckland, and his MFA in poetry and translation from the University of Notre Dame. His day job is in software engineering and data science.
Mail: chris [at] compoundpress [dot] org
Books
Anti-Eclogues (Titus Books, forthcoming)
Gorse Poems (Titus Books, 2022)
HIGH-TENSION/FASHION (Greying Ghost Press, 2018)
Translation
‘The Drug’ by Léon-Paul Fargue (Cordite, forthcoming)
4 poems by Miguel Otero Silva (Mercury Firs 6, 2025)
4 poems by Miguel Otero Silva (Shearsman Magazine 141/142, 2024)
Poems
‘Paorae’ (Landfall 247, 2024)
‘Love in the time of time’ (Western Humanities Review 75.1, 2021)
‘JC3.1BRU’, ‘AMND5.1THE’ (Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, 2021)
‘TT1.2MIR’, ‘AAC3.6CAES’ (unearthed, 2020)
‘Gorse’, ‘Heritage pamphlet’ (Shearsman Magazine 123/124, 2020)
‘Floating point’ (Cordite 93, 2021)
‘Caterpillar Valley’ (Oversound 5, 2019)
Essays
‘Who’s afraid of the Large Language Model?’ (Public Seminar, 2024)
‘Erasure Poetry As Outsourcing The Lexicon’ (Cordite 102, 2021)
‘The Future is Material’ (Dwelling in the Margins, GLORIA Books, 2020)
‘Pictures of Lack: David Merritt’ (Ka Mate Ka Ora 17, 2019)
‘A spring in one’s death, or: a fountain of youth/doom in Middle English lyric’ (Jacket2 Extreme Texts Feature, 2019)
‘The Rule of Tincture: On Emily Wilson’s The Great Medieval Yellows’ (Fanzine, 2016)
Reading at the Hammes Bookstore
University of Notre Dame, 15 April 2015
MFA Thesis Reading, Philbin Studio Theatre
University of Notre Dame, 20 April 2016