Presenting the most transparent Zen poetry within a nicely compact Hardback format, Zen Poems is pleasingly meditative and anti-intellectual - and set within a recognizably Japanese landscape of moon, mountains, tress, clouds, weather and the seasons. While the book plays down the more rarefied and challenging paradoxes of Zen belief, repeated readings reveal more than at first meets the eye. Essentially, this is nature poetry, all the more effective for the sparseness of its imagery. (Kirkus UK)