James Stuart, Anonymous Folk Songs Hyemi Seok is a translator

Hyemi Seok is a translator and musical writer/lyricist from Korea

shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize and joint winner of the Australian Book Design Association award for Best Designed Independent Book

candour and a sense of life’s absurdities are the outstanding qualities of this collection

where he has made a name for himself principally as an underground music critic

James Stuart, Anonymous Folk Songs Hyemi Seok is a translatorHighly Commended in the Anne Elder Award 2014 Anonymous Folk Songs is James Stuarts first full length collection of poems. His other collection is Imitation Era (Rare Object Series, Vagabond Press, 2012). His previous work is largely intermedia. He was a 2008 Asialink Literature Resident in Chengdu, China, and works as a communications manager. The complex landscapes of today, urban and natural, become worldscapes and dreamscapes in James Stuarts