Fragrant Poetry

If our environment shapes us as people, then the place in which we live must also inform our creative endeavors and shape us as poets, this has certainly been the case with my own writing. Hong Kong is frequently viewed and portrayed as the archetypal modern Asian city, with its thrusting architectural vernacular which is the main fodder of the documentary, travelogue and infomercial. Like something taken from Italo Calvino's book Invisible Cities, Hong Kong is a different place to different demographic groups and even to different individuals within these same groups.