Distinguished Leaves
Poems for Tea Lovers
Published on 3. October 2011
Book
Hardback
80 pages
978-1-84689-115-1 (ISBN)
Description
Two of the recession's success stories have been loose leaf tea and poetry - put the two together and you have 'poetea'. Here professional writer, portrait miniature painter and Tea Poet, Elizabeth Darcy Jones, serves up a fragrant brew in this charming volume, celebrating different teas and 'tea people'. Alongside descriptions of different tea types and hints about using loose leaf tea - 37 different teas are described as characters, revealing their unique personalities in an accessible and entertaining way. Who wouldn't be tempted to discover her 'Mr Darcy of a tea?'.
Reviews / Votes
"A delightful mix of prose and poetry." --Tony Parsons, author, " Man and Boy", on" Simply ThisMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 165 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84689-115-1 (9781846891151)
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10/2011
Quiller Publishing Ltd
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Persons
Elizabeth Darcy Jones is one of a handful of tea poets in the world, perpetuating the ancient Chinese and Japanese tradition of writing poetry about the multi-faceted aspects of tea. Elizabeth's first volume of poetry, Simply This, now sold out, was described by Tony Parsons as 'a delightful mixture of prose and poetry...'. A former City voice coach for Cazenove & Co (and once described by The Daily Telegraph as its 'Queen Bee'), Elizabeth was commissioned to write the post-war biography of wartime S.O.E. coding genius, Leo Marks OBE. She regularly performs her tea and other poems in London, and was a featured guest at The Seven Dials Club as part of the London Alternative Fringe Festival in 2010.