Rice Cakes and Tea

By Susanne Morning

With striking images and elliptical thoughts, Morning’s poetry lurches between humour and depths too dark to plumb. Exploring the diastases between East and West, she paints a picture of cross-cultural experience in which the pathos of distance, of being caught in-between, discloses the essence of the expatriate soul. Tender poems and observant fragments gathered around tea, rice cakes, friendship, and the small rituals that make a life feel held.