spring
Poetry An Mi-ok Soundbook
Interview with Ahn Mi-ok × Kim Na-young What I thought after writing Love
Novel Son Bo-mi's Picnic on the Beach
Interview with Son Bo-mi and Noh Tae-hoon About a girl walking down an unknown path

summer
Crash Landing on You
Interview with Shin I-in × The story of a star who crash-lands and a calm troublemaker
The Age of Mijo by Lee Seo-su
Interview with Lee Seo-su and Ahn Seo-hyun: Dreams, Labor, Family, Women, and Writing

autumn
Poetry Kim Ri-yoon, Leaving Eternity
Interview with Kim Ri-yoon and Noh Tae-hoon: The Growing Landscape and the Future
Reply to the novel by Choi Eun-young
Interview with Choi Eun-young and Kim Na-young: Failure and Continuation, To You Who Loves

winter
Poet Jo Hye-eun's Sand Play
Interview with Jo Hye-eun and Ahn Seo-hyun: Failing Words and True Love
Free the Whale, a novel by Yeom Seung-sook
Interview with Yeom Seung-sook and Jo Dae-han: The Reality of "The Place"

Spring, summer, fall, winter
The most colorful landscapes of poetry and novels
Seesaw in one volume

The 'Seesaw' project, which began in the spring of 2021, was created with the aim of promoting good works by selecting one poem and novel published each season (spring, summer, fall, and winter).
'Seesaw' is a special single volume that allows you to encounter the best poetry and novels of the year in one volume and hear the authors' voices through interviews.
The publication of 『Seesaw First 2022 Seesaw Selected Works』, which marks the beginning of the project, has been published.
'Seesaw' has three distinct characteristics.
One, it contains poetry and novels together.
Second, the quarterly magazine 『Consonant and Vowel』 publishes the process of selecting works with different external selection committee members each season, making it public to readers and writers.
Third, you can watch the author's interview, selection process, and other behind-the-scenes stories of the work in a YouTube video.
Just as one climbs up and down a seesaw to view the world from different angles, 'Seesaw' offers readers a new reading experience and unforgettable resonance.

Poetry and novels beautifully coloring the four seasons
Ahn Mi-ok, Shin Yi-in, Kim Ri-yoon, Jo Hye-eun
Son Bo-mi, Lee Seo-soo, Choi Eun-young, Yeom Seung-sook

Poet Ahn Mi-ok's "Sound Book," selected as a "Spring Poem," tells us what love is rather than telling us about it through the way the "sound book" works and the attitude of those who view it.
Rather than telling what love is, this poem is a process that a person who wonders what love is continues to go through to find out.
It was selected with the comment, “This poem seems to be creating a new dictionary.”
You can read a new definition of love and of 'words'.
"Spring Picnic" by author Son Bo-mi, which was selected as the "Novel of Spring," depicts the series of events that occur when an eleven-year-old girl who lives with her mother returns from staying at her grandmother's house in Busan during summer vacation.
It is a “sad coming-of-age story” that delicately and sensitively captures the “tie of precarious emotions” of a woman who “wants to belong to a secret and clandestine world” and “wants to know about a world she doesn’t belong to.”

Poet Shin I-in's "Crash Landing", which was selected as the "Poem of Summer," contains a story about a "dream that came with an odd time difference" that came to me, who had given up on my dreams and was living in reality, and suddenly shook up my daily life.
We can examine how we and others may interpret certain possessions differently, the discrepancies between how others see us and how we perceive ourselves, and aspects of our lives that are filled with sadness.
Selected as the 'Summer Novel', author Lee Seo-su's "The Age of Mijo" poses questions about an era in which history is constructed, thought about, and maintained within a male-centered and patriarchal context.
It was praised as “a novel attempt to show the imagination of a new time through the character of K-eldest daughter.”
In this era where the relationship between mother and daughter is treated as an important aspect in Korean novels, “The Age of Mijo” occupies a special place.

Poet Kim Ri-yoon's "Leaving Eternity," selected as the "Poem of Autumn," is a poem that thinks of trees that will survive much longer than the time we have grown up and the time we will grow old in the future.
This is a work of outstanding detail and perfection, written through “the experience of vividly feeling and observing humans and human time as nature where ‘material determines form.’”
“The bitterness of the thought that one may never be able to escape the frame of the world” is conveyed.
Selected as the 'Novel of Autumn', author Choi Eun-young's 'Reply' is a letter from the first-person narrator 'I' to 'you', her older sister's daughter and niece, and is 'I's' response to the society that made 'I' a sinner and the world that does not change at all regardless of the changes in my life.
It is a story of “failed but enduring love” and a response of understanding to my ‘self’ at that age.
We can once again confirm the important point in author Choi Eun-young's novel: "what we thought we knew then, we now realize we don't know."

Poet Jo Hye-eun's "Sand Play," selected as the "Poem of Winter," overlaps images of sand play and compares them to various emotions felt in life.
Through the image of sand play, it shows the emotions felt in life and overlaps sand play with the play of the mind that is done 'secretly'.
“Words of deep loneliness,” “Words of a person who fails in all relationships,” “Nevertheless,” it contains the words that continue.
"Free the Whale" by author Seung-sook Yeom, which was selected as the "Novel of the Winter," is the story of "I," who lost my husband in an unexpected accident and was left to raise a child alone.
The hardships and complex emotions of raising a child and life as a working person form two axes.
The novel is characterized by “not a shred of hope.”
It shows that women's reality is not limited to childcare or home, but is closely connected to various social elements, including art and labor issues.

**'Seesaw' aims to promote good works and encourage reading and sharing, and some of the books will be donated to places in need, such as alternative schools, small libraries, and village communities, under the names of the eight selected authors.