About
Chris Kerr lives in London. He is the co-author of ./code --poetry with Daniel Holden, published by Broken Sleep Books in 2023. His chapbook, Extra Long Matches, was published by Penteract Press in 2022. His debut collection, Nam Gal Sips Clark, was published by Hesterglock Press in 2021. His first pamphlet, Citidyll, was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2018.
His work has appeared in Ambit, Anthropocene, Adjacent Pineapple, Blackbox Manifold, code::art, Haverthorn, Oxford Poetry, The Literateur, Poem Atlas, Tentacular, The Babel Tower Notice Board, The Book of Penteract, Under the Radar and Ink, Sweat & Tears.
Chris was commended in the Verve Poetry Festival City Poetry Competition 2018. He was shortlisted for the Jane Martin Poetry Prize in 2017.
A note on hamburgers and the I Ching
If you scroll to the top of this page, on the right there is a "hamburger icon" that consists of three stacked horizontal lines. You're probably familiar with this icon: you can click it to open a navigation menu.
The Unicode character Trigram for Heaven (☰) is sometimes used to represent hamburger icons. This trigram derives from the I Ching, an ancient Chinese system of divination. The Trigram for Heaven is made up of three yang (unbroken) lines. When you press the hamburger icon on this site, it doesn't turn into an X, as you might expect, but another trigram: the Trigram for Earth (☷). This trigram consists of three yin (broken) lines.
The I Ching is significant to me because it represents the intersection of the ineffably human and the technological (a little like ./code --poetry). The I Ching inspired Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who saw in its yin and yang lines an early form of binary. What do you get when you combine these two trigrams into a hexagram? I'll leave that for you to explore.
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