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MOUNTAINS BELONG TO THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM is a poetic love affair between an Australian woman and the mountains of Korea. Lesley Singh from sub-tropical Maleny in Queensland, Australia, spent three months living "like a tiny flea" on the back of Duncheol in southern rural Korea. The record of her engagement reaches between the two nations in a loving embrace of humble and heartfelt words.

Proudly published by Post Pressed

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Reviews

I had the feeling I was right there, seeing what she saw, feeling what she felt, being let into her private world… I love her book and bought a copy as soon as it came out.

Rayn Roberts
American author of several books of poetry including The Fires of Spring written while living in Korea.

Hidden among the forests robing the slopes of the mountains of southern Korea are ancient Buddhist temples. The beauty of nature forms a fit setting for the beauty of the spiritual quest pursued there. In these touching poems, gentle notes of personal experience, Lesley Singh invites her readers to join her in the joys and riddles of life in rural Korea, a foreign land that becomes a second home to her. Essential Buddhist themes find a new freshness through these delightful works."

Brother Anthony
Chair of English, Sogang University, Seoul.

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Extract

I, a Passing Stranger

The rice farmer's child
asks something in a high voice.
His mother pauses in her work.
Lesley Sem, she tells him.
Then she from her cottage of stone and mud,
and I from the path to school,
raise our arms
and wave to each other
madly.

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