by Administrator | Nov 27, 2020 | Readers & Writers
Flight KE 908 departs Seoul Incheon International Airport, firing north-east and turning away from the bulging North Korean shoreline ahead of it – an experience both almost unique to here, and completely normal. I look down at tufted tropical-looking islets in the...
by Administrator | Nov 18, 2020 | Quick Reads
Let me tell you about my friend Jordan. We met at Leicester University, when he started a poetry society and I became its only enthusiastic member. Our ‘society’ descended into a vehicle for pranks when we decided to book the biggest hall at the university for an...
by Administrator | Nov 13, 2020 | Quick Reads
‘I see someone’, says Seoyoung, looking up from her binoculars and pointing. Elongating my zoom lens, I home in on a man walking along a field, then bending to pick something up. Then we notice other people nearby, all dotted around and doing the same thing. Then,...
by Administrator | Nov 6, 2020 | Readers & Writers
‘Bucheon is not beautiful – well, not like Nottingham.’ That was Seoyoung, of Bucheon UNESCO City of Literature, when my Zoom interview for this residency came to a close back in May. I laughed – it was hard not to. Besides, being interviewed by Seoyoung and her...
by Administrator | Oct 30, 2020 | Readers & Writers
‘People call him “Fat Man” but I call him “Crazy Fat Man”.’ Fair enough. I’m with seven other people on a minibus that is bowling out of Seoul beside the Han River, and Sunny, our guide, is giving a very personalised history of Korean relations. ‘When I was young, I...
