Denise Riley and Don Mee Choi read at the launch of MPT The Blue Vein
b"In this podcast:\\n\\n00:00 - Introduction to Denise Riley\\n02:50 - Denise Riley reading begins\\n33.05 - Sasha Dugdale introduces Don Mee Choi\\n42.12 - Don Mee Choi reads translations of Kim Hyesoon\\n54:00 - Don Mee Choi reads translations of Kim Yideum \\n1:05:48 - Don Mee Choi reads from her book \\u2018The Morning News is Exciting\\u2019\\n\\nThis podcast features Denise Riley and Don Mee Choi. It was recorded at The Print Room, London, for the launch of Modern Poetry in Translation's winter issue 'The Blue Vein', which features Korean poetry including work by Kim Hyesoon, Kim Yidium, Han Kang and more. See the full contents on www.mptmagazine.com\\n\\nAbout Don Mee Choi:\\nDon Mee Choi was born in Korea, but settled in the USA. She is a poet, critic and essayist and in experimental and important work she challenges notions of history and identity. She is one of Korean poetry\\u2019s foremost translators and her translations of Kim Hyesoon are published by Bloodaxe. Her last collection of poetry, Hardly War was published to acclaim in 2016. The New York Times said of Hardly War:\\n\\n\\u2018Deliberately and excitingly difficult in both its style and its subject matter, Don Mee Choi\\u2019s second collection, Hardly War, sees its author operating as an archaeologist as much as a poet. Choi\\u2019s use of hybrid forms \\u2014 poetry, memoir, opera libretto, images and artifacts from her father\\u2019s career as a photojournalist in the Korean and Vietnam Wars \\u2014 lets her explore themes of injustice and empire, history and identity, sifting through the detritus of family, translation, propaganda and dislocation.\\u2019\\n\\nhttp://www.donmeechoi.com\\n\\nAbout Denise Riley:\\n\\nDenise Riley is a critically acclaimed writer of both philosophy and poetry. Her books include War in the Nursery [1983]; \\u2018Am I that Name?\\u2019 [1988]; The Words of Selves [2000]; Denise Riley: Selected Poems [2000]; The Force of Language, with Jean-Jacques Lecercle [2004]; Impersonal Passion [2005], Time Lived, Without Its Flow [2012] and Say Something Back [2016]. She is currently Professor of the History of Ideas and and of Poetry at the University of East Anglia, and has taught and researched widely at many institutions in Europe and America.. Her visiting positions have included A.D. White Professor at Cornell University in the US, Writer in Residence at the Tate Gallery in London, and Visiting Fellow at Birkbeck College in the University of London. She has taught philosophy, art history, poetics, and creative writing. Denise Riley lives in London."