Shin Cheol Gyu



Invisible Walls: Poetry as a Doorway to Intercultural Understanding

The selection of poems we offer here is written by poets participating in a two-year intercultural exchange program between Korean and Australian poets.

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Things to Come

First published in Korean in Changbi I am getting further from myself. At a steady rate as much as the candles increase on the birthday cake. Furthering things, fading things. You can’t hold onto distant stuff and faded things you …

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Waves and Bed and Breakfast

First published in Korean in Modern Literature The midday sun shines brilliantly. A bird enters the sun. Broken blade. The heat is buzzing. Like greasy meat in a microwave oven, crackle crackle crackle, we were expanding. A breeze blows past …

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Key with No Owner

First published in Korean in The Earthian Tales I picked up a key. Under the streetlamp it was shining. A loitering man in front of the door rummaging through his pockets. A key to a lover’s house that I will …

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