In this episode of My Life with Poetry (Versopolis), we talk with South Korean poet and novelist Choi Young-mi (1961) – a bold voice who shocked Korea with her debut collection At Thirty, the Party Was Over (1994), selling over half a million copies. She has published seven poetry collections and a novel, received the Isu Literary Award for To the Pigs (2005), and sparked South Korea’s #MeToo movement with her 2017 poem ‘Monster’.
Choi shares how she began writing poetry after the fall of the Soviet Union, why she sees this stage of her career as the most beautiful yet, and why she doesn’t encourage young people to become poets – discover her surprising reasons in the video!
