Tag: Travel
I’ve been lucky enough to travel to some pretty interesting destinations over the course of my life so far. Here are some posts from some of the more memorable places I’ve visited.
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Kim Hyesoon: Woman-animal-Asia
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Still probably the most extraordinary piece of writing I’ve ever read.
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Anthologised and reprised: “Jetlag World”
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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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Postscript: 10 days in Ireland
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Well, the roads all rose to greet me, and the days they turned on a pin.
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염기도: Basicity
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A rewrite of ‘imaginary cities: basi—’, originally written in a PC Bang in Seoul during my Asialink residency in 2005.
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In the Republic
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My flight had been delayed by an awkward incident during a brief stopover in Z—. One of the passengers — an older man in a crumpled suit — had been pulled from the boarding queue. Two persons, who did not look as if they belonged to airport security, searched the man’s carry-on luggage. From my…
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The Old Invisible Sankt Olof Express
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“Something special. Something almost hyperreal.”
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The Self in Travel Writing and the discourse of travel
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What do you think about the discourse of travel? Is it a question of privilege? Or has the whole act of travel become mundane?
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Göteborg Book Fair 2019: Hanguk style
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Göteborg Book Fair 2019 provided an opportunity to re-immerse myself in Korean literature and culture via a mini-festival of humanity.
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Schiermonnikoog (Skiermûntseach), Fryslân
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Feeling deep in Fryslân now.
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Eelderwolde: somewhere in Drenthe
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Time to get back to basics.
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Preoccupations: ‘Disarray’ (Toronto, 2018)
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My thoughts on hearing but not seeing Preoccupations play live in Toronto in April 2018.
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Farstaviken, Värmdö
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Another staycation post, on a place where I like to go for a walk but never swim.
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Gustavsberg, Värmdö
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This is more a post about staycations but it’s still travel, right?
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Bronte Baths, Sydney
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One of the billions of reasons why I always find it hard to go ‘home’ to Sweden.