February Favourites

Food is essential to culture, and should never be reduced to a simple to-do list. – Adam Liaw in The … More

Black Rice & Passionfruit Salad

Morning finds her curled like a prawn Around a stuffed blue Pegasus, or the smallest Prawn-pink lion. Or else she’s … More

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Do you remember how great summer holidays were as a kid? A … More

islands parting tides as meteors burn the air. Oysters powder to chalk in my hands. – from ‘The River’ by … More

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. – from The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare The waratah flower, native to … More

I’m still asleep but you know I will wake if you need – from ‘Wangal Morning’, Evelyn Araluen It’s been … More

I bend to it willingly, this patch of earth and its green things, in their own world (though I hold … More

There’s a wild sunset brewing up over the Pacific. The water is glowing turquoise, the sky is turning crazy pink, … More

In Kyoto, hearing the cuckoo, I long for Kyoto. – Bashō I call this Kyoto Guide for lack of a … More

“There is not city But the city within. No door, but the door To simple wisdom. We walk, dumb As … More