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with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
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80: NO THEME VI
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57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
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56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
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49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
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48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
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45.0: SILENCE
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44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
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36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones
Kim Hyesoon
‘Energy is Art’s force’: Dan Disney in Conversation with Joyelle McSweeney
‘In a station of the vortex pick me up and hurl me’ writes Joyelle McSweeney in the poem ‘Oocyte’, appearing in their celebrated collection Toxicon and Arachne (Nightboat Books, 2020). In this heady exchange of ideas, the author of ten books (poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, translation) reveals a formidable erudition swirls through the heartlands of their elemental writing.
Posted in INTERVIEWS
Tagged Dan Disney, Don Mee Choi, Joyelle McSweeney, Kim Hyesoon
Sublime Necrophilia or Ceasing To Exist in Order to Be : On Translating Kim Kyung Ju’s I Am a Season that Does Not Exist in the World
Like the male dusky antechinus, an Australian marsupial, translation has an unusually long mating period. For 14 hours it fucks so vigorously that its stress hormones overload, causing its immune system to collapse. It performs the sexy death. A lethal transfer of life. Or is it a deathy sex?
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Edward Relph, Gilles Deleuze, Gloria Anzaldua, Jake Levine, John Clay, Kim Hyesoon, Kim Kyung Ju, Lee Gwang Ho, Paul Celan, Paul de Man
Four Poems from Kim Hyesoon’s ‘Autobiography of Death’
Kim Hyesoon is one of the most prominent poets of South Korea. She lives in Seoul and teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Her most recent books in translation are Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (Action Books, 2014) and I’m OK, I’m Pig (Bloodaxe Books, 2014).
Posted in TRANSLATIONS
Tagged Don Mee Choi, Kim Hyesoon
첫 (First)
내가 세상에서 가장 질투하는 것, 당신의 첫, 당신이 세상에서 가장 질투하는 것, 그건 내가 모르지. 당신의 잠든 얼굴 속에서 슬며시 스며 나오는 당신의 첫. 당신이 여기 올 때 거기에서 가져온 것. 나는 당신의 첫을 끊어버리고 싶어. …
Posted in 45: OZ-KO (HANGUK-HOJU)
Tagged Eun-Gwi Chung, Kim Hyesoon
서울 코라 (Seoul, Kora*)
山이 컹컹 짖다가 山이 나를 따라온다 山이 새끼를 낳는다 山이 산을 핧는다 山이 새끼들에게 젖을 물린다 山이 매정하게 새끼들을 다 버린다 어린 山들이 백주 대낮에 교미한다, 악취가 난다 山이 미로 속의 개떼처럼 몰려다닌다 …
Posted in 45: OZ-KO (HANGUK-HOJU)
Tagged Eun-Gwi Chung, Kim Hyesoon
Joel Scott Reviews Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi
It is refreshing to be introduced to a literature through its contemporary women poets. For that reason, I was extremely happy to receive these two titles, both published by Action Books (a small U.S. publisher doing great things). Neither book, though, is entirely Korean.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Don Mee Choi, Kim Hyesoon, Korea, Ozko Features, translation
