Distinguished Leaves
Poems for Tea Lovers
Published on 3. October 2011
80 pages
978-1-84689-136-6 (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
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,87 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84689-136-6 (9781846891366)
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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.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Warming the Pot
- Tea to the Fore!
- Before You Buy
- Before You Pour
- As You Read
- The Poems
- Fortune Favours the Tea!
- White
- Bai Mu Dan
- Snowbud
- White Silver Tip
- Green
- Authentic Dragon Well
- Genmaicha
- Jasmine Pearls
- Matcha Latte
- Moroccan Mint
- Pinhead Gunpowder
- Toasted Hojicha
- Blue
- Amber Oolong
- Formosa Oolong Top Fancy
- Dong Ding!
- Miss Pouchong
- Phoenix Honey Orchid
- Black
- Afternoon Tea from Cornwall
- Assam
- Big Smoke
- Brother Bohea
- A Very British Darjeeling
- Earl Grey
- In Extremis Tea
- Keemun Rose
- Lapsang Souchong
- Russian Caravan
- Vanilla Black
- Vanilla Mint
- Yellow, Red and Pu-Erh
- Huo Shan Mountain Buds
- Red Lychee
- Yunnan Red Cloud
- Emperor Pu-Erh 1996 and 1998
- Other Friends
- Camomile
- Irish Velvet
- Lemon Verbena
- Lovers' Tea
- Wild Rooibos
- Tea People
- Henrietta Lovell
- Jonathan Jones
- Pei Wang
- Before it Goes Cold
- Who Gets the Last Cup?
- If I Was a Tea.
- Alphabetical List of Poems by Title
- It All Boils Down to This.
- Copyright
