It is an axiom that the greater the love shared, the greater the sorrow on parting this life. <br /> <br />Sipping Tea is a collection of poems written over the swirling of many years, at the centre of which lies the death of the poet's beloved wife, which occurred in 2015. It is a love story-written as an homage to Diana, and as an inquiry into Saxby's deep and desperate grief in the wake of her passing. <br /> <br />If we do not know the pain of it already, the fear of losing the person we've lovingly lived our life alongside of can prove a source of terror. In this often-tragic but always grateful collection, we meet a man in the midst of this anguish, and accompany him as he falls into the depths of despair and learns, with difficulty, to live-and love-again....