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?
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
Histories 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Floss 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Reading Paul Muldoon 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Meanwhile, Trees 
Two Girls and a Beehive 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
Spiritlands 
This Is Yarrow 
A Little Body Are Many Parts 
My Name Is Why 
The Moon Before Morning 
Strong in the Rain 
A Colomber in the House of Poesy 
Being Alive 
On the Motion and Immobility of Douve 
Hoard 
I Don't Like Poetry 
The Black Place 
Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy 
Over the Moon 
The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here 
States of Happiness 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods