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Poetry Extra: Ko Un - The People's Poet of Korea

03/04/2016

Ko Un - The People's Poet of Korea

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Ko Un - The People's Poet of Korea

Daljit Nagra looks abroad for inspiration and introduces Ko Un - People's Poet of Korea.

4 Extra Debut. Daljit Nagra looks abroad for inspiration and introduces Ko Un - The People's Poet of Korea. From December 2013.

BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Ko Un - The People's Poet of Korea' 

In South Korea, former Zen monk Ko Un is revered as the people's poet. To mark his 80th birthday, Mike Greenwood explored his prolific output, in particular his epic masterwork, Ten Thousand Lives (Maninbo), in which he has written a poem about everyone he has ever met. Conceived when he was imprisoned in the 1980s for rebelling against the military dictatorships then controlling South Korea, Maninbo has been published in 30 volumes in Korean. Now, for the first time, the first 10 volumes have been translated into English.

Producer: Eve Streeter 

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2013.

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