Korean Poems

Page updated October 4, 2012
Korean poetry translated by Brother Anthony available online

The page listing my published translations has become very large and perhaps difficult to navigate in a hurry. If you are looking for some Korean poetry to read online, this page might be more helpful. All the translations are by Brother Anthony of Taize (An Sonjae) and Copyright belongs to me. These translations may not be published elsewhere without my permission. Click here for some online works of fiction

1. Various Poems

Poems by 30 major poets of Korea past and present, translated carefully for the ill-fated KLTI Anthology (Table of Contents at start)

Kim Chi-Ha's extraordinary pansori-style narrative satire The Five Bandits also translated for the KLTI anthology

Some poems by younger contemporary poets

    Heo Yeon
    Jang Seok-Nam
    Kim Kyŏng-Ju
    Kim Sa-In
    Lee Jang-U k (with Korean text)
    Sim Po-Sŏn
    Yi Byeong-Ryul

2008 New Writing From Korea (A KLTI Anthology)   Poems by 15 younger writers (including some of the above) translated by me and by others, published in the (Table of Contents at start.)

Cordite Volume 35 ozko-hanguk-hoju Poems by 20 mostly younger Korean poets translated by Eun-Gwi Chung and Brother Anthony of Taizé   (Cordite is an Australian poetry review)

2. Complete volumes of poetry

a) Ch'ŏn Sang-Pyŏng
          Back to Heaven (with Introduction and the poet's Notes on Writing)

a) Ku Sang:
           Christopher's River
           Diary of the Fields
           Infant Splendor (text only); Infant Splendor with the paintings by Jung Kwang.

b) Midang So Chong-Ju: The complete text of his first four published volumes:
           Flower Snake Poems
           Nightingale
           Selected Poems of So Chong-Ju
           Essence of Silla

c) Shin Kyong-Nim
Farmers' Dance (a pdf file to be read in an Adobe Acrobat Reader) (also an article about his work)

d) Kim Young-Moo
Virtual Reality

3. Selections from my published volumes of poetry translations, with biographies

        Ku Sang's Wasteland Poems / River and Fields / Even the Knots
        Ko Un's The Sound of My Waves / Beyond Self / Ten-thousand Lives
        Midang, So Chong-ju's Early Lyrics 1941-1960
        Ch'on Sang-pyong's Back to Heaven
        Kim Kwang-kyu's Faint Shadows of Love
        Shin Kyong-nim's Farmers' Dance / Other poems
        Poems by Kim Su-Young and Lee Si-Young
        Selected poems by Kim Young-Moo
        Selected poems by Jonggi Mah
        Selected poems by Kim Yeong-Nang