Tag: yi sang

  • This is the Hangul version of my poem ‘Sparrow dabang’ about Yi Sang (1910–37), an avant-garde Korean poet. Hangul translation by 김성현 (Kim Sunghyun). Read the English version.

  • Tang

    Hangul on the wall of Yi Sang House, Seoul. Tang can mean ‘bang’ (as in the sound a gun makes; bang, of course, means ‘room’), or ‘bath’, or ‘soup’.

  • Yi Sang (1910–37) was an avant-garde Korean poet. I wrote this poem after visiting Yi Sang House in Seoul as part of the Cordite poets’ tour in 2011. Read the Hangul version, ‘참새 다방’.