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Tag: asialink
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Anthologised and reprised: “Jetlag World”
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3 min read
The last time a poem of mine appeared in a journal was back in 2013. But in the intervening years, the dim flame of my poetic muse has been sustained by the appearance of some of my published poems in a number of anthologies. Suddenly, these old poems have a new agency. They just “hit…
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The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry
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It’s super exciting for me that “Capa” has received not a second but a third lease of life, having first “appeared” in the pages of Southerly waaaaaay back in 2007.
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포악: Atrocity
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In 2005 I travelled to Seoul to write a series of prose poems in PC Bangs (Korean Internet cafes) about imaginary cities. This one was originally called ‘imaginary cities: atro—’.
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Interviewing Ko Un
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One of the highlights of my second Asialink residency in Seoul in 2009 was my meeting with poet Ko Un.
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Steam (Redux)
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5 min read
All about Steam
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White Tiger: How I got my Korean name
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“Hear me roar …”
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50/49 redux
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& later I realised
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No! Sleep! Till Gangnam!
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By this time tomorrow
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Seoul Redux, Asialink and PC Bangs 2.0
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Korea! Korea! Korea! Korea!
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Morgenland chapbook out now!
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Even as the dust begins to settle on We Will Disappear, there’s no time for a busy poet like me to rest. I’m proud to announce that I’ve got a new chapbook out through the highly-esteemed Vagabond Press, whose editor Michael Brennan runs the Poetry International Australia website, and who is, by the way, a…
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Taking Kylie To Korea
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Last year, as part of my Asialink residency in Seoul, I wrote an article for the Australian National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) on the subject of my experience of teaching a course on Australian culture at Sogang University. Here’s a quick excerpt: I have sung the national anthem (‘a capella?’ one incredulous fellow-traveller asked me)…
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So long and thanks for all the soju …
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Well, the time has come to cease talking of many things, to stop going to PC Bangs, to pack up my bags and head for different places, to leave behind many happy and strange memories of my time here. It is hard to believe that four months ago I arrived in Seoul in the middle…
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Sixty PC Bang signs
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A PC is obviously a personal computer but “bang” is the Korean word for “room”, so a PC Bang is a computer room, slightly akin to what we would call an internet cafe in Australia and elsewhere.
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Snapshots of Almost Contact
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“A series of micro-narratives (mobile phone movies) exploring the poetics of delay. Photos, video and performances around the digital ethnographies of mobile media.”
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A poem/song by my Australian Culture students
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I’m speechless