Chris Kerr’s work includes lyrical, visual, constrained, conceptual, sound, digital and performance poetry, as well as palindromes written on tennis ball seams. 

He published Extra Long Matches with Penteract Press in 2022, having tried out (unsuccessfully) to be a ballboy at Wimbledon. He also published Nam Gal Sips Clark with Hesterglock Press in 2021 and Citidyll with Broken Sleep Books in 2018, which was also published as a hand-sewn pamphlet in a cassette case and an ebook on a floppy disk. 

./code --poetry, a collaboration with Daniel Holden, is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books. Chris presented a talk on this project at the University of Hamburg in 2022. An academic article on the project, co-authored with Daniel, is forthcoming from De Gruyter in 2023 in a volume edited by Magdalena Korecka and Wiebke Vorrath. 

He lives in London, where he is learning to play tennis.

Chris’ Angry Starlings release in collaboration with Susie Campbell, Echolocation, is available here.