Saturday, 24 December 2011

Distinguished Leaves: Poems for Tea Lovers by Elizabeth Darcy Jones

A sweet little book of meditations on the gentle art of tea drinking. The book is in sections dividing the teas into white, green, blue, black, red and yellow with a brief description of what the colours mean. A poem is dedicated to each variety of tea treating them as an individual and speaking about their personality as if they were a person. Some of the poems are a bit slight but there a plenty that speak elegantly of this most ancient tradition of making tea with loose leaves and a meditative spirit

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