"Swimming Between Islands" appears in my collection of the same name, which was published by Carcanet in 2023 and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize. I wrote the poem after reading a tweet by a man asking what women will do with their lives between the ages of 40 and 80 if they don't become mothers. The tweet led to a surprisingly calm, beautiful thread full of people without children listing things they plan to do.
Charlotte Eichler on "Swimming Between Islands" |
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Review of Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon
"These poems peek into kitchens, tumble over hills, mountains and the moon, step across straits and oceans, into kitchens, and even the consciousness of dolls. They mourn alongside a community of mothers, stomaching the chewed meat of loss. Kim’s poetic gaze roves endlessly over this broad world, defying borders and military suppression."
via BIG ISSUE |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Kai Ihns on Building Community
"I think this dispersed but somehow coherent ‘I’ that exists in relation and as a problem of negotiating how one is oriented… I’m interested in this because I do feel like it’s a way poetry can process its world, in this case a world that requires complex negotiations of… realities, and the selves that can exist in them. You have to actively negotiate what you think the ground is, all the time… and that partially determines how you can be in relation." |
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