POESIEGESPRÄCH: HWANG YUWON & KIM HYUN – Blätter für zwei Personen

In the organizer's words:

Studio space

Two exciting voices from Korea can be discovered in this poetry talk: Both are poets whose writing defies easy deciphering and plunges into the most beautiful, dense confusion.

The poems of Hwang Yuwon (born 1982 in Ulsan, South Korea) are hyper-real wanderings between the grotesque and discourse. Hwang himself calls them "real time poems": live entanglements of inside and outside. Rhythm and repetition form a thread on which poetic images hang, oscillate and collide. Hwang has published four volumes of poetry, most recently "하얀 사슴 연못" ("White Deer Lake", Changbi Publishers 2023). A selection in English was published by Vagabond Press in 2019. Hwang himself translates Anne Carson, Bob Dylan and William Carlos Williams, among others, into Korean.

Kim Hyun (born in 1980 in the Cheorwon region of South Korea) made his debut in 2014 with "Glory Hole", South Korea's first openly queer poetry collection. Since then, he has published three more volumes of poetry, as well as numerous collections of essays. He is co-author of a feminist and a queer novel collection and editor of a queer anthology for young adults. Kim Hyun's poems, writes Areeb Ahmad on the blog of the magazine "Asymptote", are "hymns to a lived, visceral queerness that effortlessly transcends the hollow aesthetics of a sterile craft and seeks to embody life in all its splendor".

Hwang Yuwon and Kim Hyun in conversation with Sool Park and Sung Un Gang

The event will be interpreted into Korean and German.

Project management: Alexander Gumz

Supported by:

Literature Translation Institute of Korea. The poesiefestival berlin is a project of the Haus für Poesie in cooperation with silent green Kulturquartier and the Akademie der Künste and is funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.