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Tag: korea
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50/49 redux
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& later I realised
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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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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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No! Sleep! Till Gangnam!
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By this time tomorrow
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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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Babble post mortem and pics
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My re-baptism of fire on the Melbourne spoken word circuit last night during my Babble feature provided me with some food for thought about how to get the most out of performance poetry.
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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
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More signs that speak for themselves
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7 steps to “I feel better (now)”
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Well, after the trauma of last week I can say without a doubt that the last seven days have been much better. Here’s a quick rundown of my patented 7-step program for transformation from gloom and doom merchant into street-strutting writer in residence.
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Who’ll Come And Waltz With My Tilda?
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As part of my Australian Culture course here at Sogang University (in which I now teach approximately 40 students), we spent some time learning the basics about Australia: the capital city, the system of government, what the flag and coat of arms mean and, naturally, the national anthem. I think I mentioned in a previous…
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“Borntobe Chicken”
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Mmmm, borntobe chicken.
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Jongno, Seoul
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Just another quiet night in the totally relaxed and tranquil downtown district of Seoul.