A Korean poet and his English translator met with readers in Edinburgh this week to explore what can be lost and be newly found when a poem crosses a language barrier. Poet Lee Seong-bok and translator Anton Hur discussed the former's poetry collection “That Summer’s End” at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Thursday, part of a second consecutive year of partnership between the festival and the Korean Cultural Centre UK. The conversation, chaired by poet and writer Andrew McMillan, examined the themes of love, loss, pain and beauty in Lee’s work and the choices involved in rendering its compressed language in English. Hur discussed how he sought to preserve the rhythm, ambiguity, imagery and emotional resonance of the Korean originals while allowing the poems to stand on their own for English-language readers. The festival describes Lee as one of Korea’s most influential poets and notes that he has published eight poetry collections as well as other works. Hur has translated Korean works including Bora Chung’s “Cursed Bunny” and Sang Young Park’s “Love in th