OSSIAIn this extraordinary, passionate debut poetry collection, Jimin Seo takes up a material we think we recognize language and transforms it through permutation, history, and translation into a lyrical and alien terrain. Seo takes up both Korean and English, drawing them across multiple experiences of relation none of them equivalence. Translation and re translation triangulate to form the ghostly third other which defines every relationship of two.

+ Anthony Rudolf - short reviews

adrift in a territory where intellectual protest has been stripped of ideological impetus and subsumed by the voraciousness of the market

Lines and Shadows is the strange lovechild between Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent and John Le Carre

In Sleepless

She has had poems published in The Rialto

meetings she wasn’t allowed to attend

In an unfolding of

And who is the mysterious Artist with whom Ginny’s fate becomes entangled

conversational tone

seeking refuge around the world

‘nâzim hikmet: on the ship to mars’

countries and customs