A listing of poetry in translation. The listing should be pretty much complete for publications post 1980. Details of translator can be got by clicking through to the relevant title below.
First, a listing of single-author collections, sorted alphabetically by author (in their English transliteration). The multi-author anthologies are lower down the page.
If you prefer a browsing experience with images of the book covers, you can find a listing of volumes of translated poets, sorted by publication date (with single author and multi-author publications in the same listing), here.
And now the Anthologies, most recent first:
Editor | Title |
Jieun Kiaer, Anna Yates-Lu, Mattho Mandersloot | On Translating Modern Korean Poetry, Routledge, 2021 |
Peter H Lee | Poems from Korea: From the Earliest Era to the Present, Routledge, 2019 |
Emily Jungmin Yoon | Against Healing: Nine Korean Poets, Tilted Axis, 2019 |
John Lie | Zainichi Literature, Univ of California Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies, 2018 |
Richard Mayer | On an Autumn Night: Classical Korean Poetry, Independently published, 2018 |
North Korean Writers in Exile PEN Center | North Korean Writers in Exile PEN Literature (VOLUME Book 4), PEN Center, 2017 |
Jiyoon Lee, Don Mee Choi, Jake Levine and Johannes Göransson | Poems of Kim Yideum, Kim Haengsook + Kim Min Jeong, Vagabond Press, 2017 |
Brother Anthony of Taizé and Chung Eun-Gwi | The Colors of Dawn: Twentieth-Century Korean Poetry, University of Hawai'i Press, 2016 |
Kevin O'Rourke | The Book Of Korean Poetry: Choson Dynasty, Stallion Press, 2014 |
Sung-Il Lee | The Crane in the Clouds: Shijo: Korean Classical Poems in the Vernacular, Homa + Sekey, 2013 |
Sung-Il Lee | The Brush and the Sword: Kasa, Korean Classical Poems in Prose, Cross Cultural Communications, 2009 |
Don Mee Choi | Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women, Zephyr Press, 2006 |
Kevin O'Rourke | The Book of Korean Poetry: Songs of Shilla and Koryo, University of Iowa Press, 2006 |
Words Without Borders | Literature from the “Axis of Evil”, The New Press, 2006 |
Won-Chung Kim and Christopher Merrill | Because of the Rain: A Selection of Korean Zen Poems, White Pine Press, 2006 |
Peter H Lee | Echoing Song: Contemporary Korean Women Poets, White Pine Press, 2006 |
Won-Chung Kim | Cracking the Shell: Three Korean Ecopoets, Homa + Sekey, 2005 |
Harold Hakwon Sunoo | Life and Poems of Three Koreans: Kim Chi-Ha, Ko Un, Yang Song-Oo, XLibris, 2005 |
David McCann | The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry, Columbia University Press, 2004 |
Kevin O'Rourke | A Hundred Love Poems from Old Korea, Global Oriental, 2003 |
Peter H. Lee | The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry, Columbia University Press, 2002 |
Kim Jong-gil | Among the Flowering Reeds: An Anthology of Classic Korean Poetry Written in Chinese, White Pine Press, 2002 |
Jaihiun Kim | Meditative Poems by Korean Monks, Jain Publishing, 2002 |
Suh Ji-moon | Brother Enemy: Poems of the Korean War, White Pine Press, 2002 |
James Kimbrell, Yu Jung-yul | Three Poets of Modern Korea: Yi Sang, Hahm Dong-seon, and Choi Young-mi, Sarabande Books, 2002 |
Kevin O'Rourke | The Book of Korean Shijo, Harvard University Press, 2002 |
Ko Won | Voices in Diversity: Poets from Postwar Korea, Cross Cultural Communications, 2001 |
Brother Anthony of Taizé, Kim Young-moo | Variations: Three Korean Poets, Cornell East Asia Series, 2001 |
David R. McCann | Early Korean Literature: Selections and Introductions, Columbia University Press, 2000 |
Kevin O'Rourke | Looking for the Cow: Modern Korean Poetry, Dedalus Press, 1999 |
Richard Rutt (Editor) David McCann (Foreword) | The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo, University of Michigan Press, 1998 |
Sung-il Lee | The Moonlit Pond: Korean Classical Poems in Chinese, Copper Canyon, 1998 |
Jaihiun Kim, Robert Hatch | Modern Korean Verse in Sijo Form, Ronsdale Press, 1997 |
Wolhee Choe, Constantine Contogenis | Songs of the Kisaeng, BOA Editions, 1997 |
Jaihiun Kim | Classical Korean Poetry, Jain Publishing, 1994 |
Jaihiun Kim | Modern Korean Poetry, Jain Publishing, 1994 |
Jaihiun Kim | Contemporary Korean Poetry, Mosaic, 1994 |
Peter H Lee | Pine River and Lone Peak: An Anthology of Three Choson Dynasty Poets, University of Hawai'i Press, 1991 |
Lee Sung-Il | The Wind and the Waves: Four Modern Korean Poets, Asian Humanities Press, 1989 |
Chung Chong-wha | Korean Classical Literature: An Anthology, Kegan Paul Intl, 1989 |
Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English | The Green Prodigals: Contemporary Stories and Poems from Korea, Adelaide CRNLE, 1989 |
Kim Jong-gil | Slow Chrysanthemums: Classical Korean Poems in Chinese, Anvil Press, 1987 |
Chung Chong-wha | The Anthology of modern Korean poetry, East West, 1986 |
Chung Chong-wha | Love in mid-winter night: Korean sijo poetry, Kegan Paul Intl, 1985 |
Jaihiun Joyce Kim | The contemporary Korean poets: Korean poetry since 1920, Larchwood, 1980 |
David R McCann | Black Crane: An Anthology of Korean Literature, Cornell East Asia Series, 1977 |
Peter H Lee | Poems from Korea: A historical anthology, University of Hawai'i Press, 1974 |
Peter H Lee | Anthology of Korean Poetry from the Earliest Era to the Present, John Day, 1964 |
Peter Hyun | Voices of the Dawn, John Murray, 1960 |
Pyun Yung-tai | Songs from Korea, Y.T. Pyun, 1936 |
Joan S Grigsby | The Orchid Door, J L Thompson, 1935 |
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