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Author: Davey Dreamnation
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My interview with Arjen Duinker
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Well it’s taken me
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Lee Si-woo on history, tragedy and the DMZ
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History is always cruel to the defeated because it belongs to the victor. History offers a future to the latter, but tragedy to the former. In spite of this, tragedy is beautiful because a solution presupposes the problem that caused the loser to lose, and because as the saying goes, human beings present only those…
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Sunshine for Kim Dae-jung
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Kim Dae-jung, a former President of the Republic of Korea (1998–2003), and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died on 18 August 2009. This poem was first published in Jacket2 (USA, 2012). Läs på svenska.
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How to get to (and from) Muuido
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In 2009, during my Asialink residency in Seoul, me and a bunch of others decided to make the journey to Muuido, an island near Incheon airport. Well, it seemed like it was ‘near’. We ended up on the beach at the top right of the map near Silmido. Couldn’t get to Silmido itself because of…
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50/49 redux
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& later I realised
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Some Classic Korean Manhwa Titles
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Manhwa is a Korean comic form
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Morgenland reviewed by Adam Fieled
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“The message is change; the Buddha would be proud.”
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Thomas Mars on Radiohead lyrics and magnets
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We’re fascinated with the idea of every word fitting perfectly with every chord so it creates a new standard of beauty . . . It’s almost like Radiohead are using those word magnets. That’s my worst fear — the magnet thing . . . Thomas Mars of Phoenix
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Some interesting Korean book titles …
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… discovered recently: ‘I Have the Right to Destroy Myself’* ‘Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers’ ‘Poor Love Machine’ ‘Look, Calendar Factory Manager’ ‘The Korean Way of Tea’ ‘Lebanon Emotion’ ‘Happy People Don’t Check the Time’ ‘The Outings of Snake-boy’ ‘I Am a Season That Does Not Exist in This World’ ‘Quietly Liking’ ‘Mechanical…
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Never a stranger to adventure …
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Come with me, through
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This poem was first published in my chapbook Final Friday (2010).
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(On the Tomb of) Agnes Smedley
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k so you tried to teach mao to dance
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Chris de Burgh on Iran
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Recent events in Iran have filled me with shock and mounting horror, and I send my heartfelt sympathies and support to all my friends and fans there who may have been caught up in what has become a huge international story. Many people all over the world have reacted with anger and dismay at what…
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I couldn’t agree with you, more
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‘s the pity, as I liked what you
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Cordite 30.1: Made (2009)
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