Shin Hae-uk



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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The Edge of Nature and Death from Natural Causes

The sowing is over. In someone’s garden. In someone’s furrow. Someone holding a hoe. Someone’s kidney. Someone’s blood cell. Plod ploddingly. Why did you come? To someone’s land. Humming any song. Chinese lantern plants and intestines. Eggs and corneas. Gallbladders …

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Multiply

The experience centre was big. A warehouse. We swept the dust. We looked through the inventory. What should we do? Try to climb up someone’s Jangdokdae (sauce pot platform), take a sip of someone’s fresh water, and get drunk on …

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An Encounter

A plastic bag we never saw before flew. It was high in the air. Is it a new kind? One muttered through an excited expression. It’s pure white. It must have never got mixed up. Never got dropped on the …

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