Description
A collection of meditations on poetry, art and life, taken from the creative writing lectures of one of South Korea’s most prominent living poets
‘Kick against words like you would kick back on a swing. You’ve got to feel as if the soles of your feet are touching the sky.’
These 470 aphorisms, collected by his students, are evocative micropoems in their own right. Some express ideas at once familiar and breathtakingly new – truths we could sense but not put into words. Others unfurl fresh vistas and offer worlds to explore in their exciting and inspiring poetics.
Together, they offer an invigorating and original answer to the questions: How – and why – do we write at all? What does it mean to create? And how should we see the world?
Bernard Spencer 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
States of Happiness 
Selected Poetry 
Confessional Sonnets 
A March Calf 
Being Alive 
Isn't Forever 
Luck Is the Hook 
Judas 
The Silvering 
Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy 
Poems 
Footnotes to Water 
Steep Tea 
Meet My Folks! 
This Is Yarrow 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Dog Poems 
Gold from the Stone 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
Sax Burglar Blues 
Milk and Honey 
Strong in the Rain 
In Her Own Words 
A Quarter of an Hour 
Days of Grace