With Earth as My Witness

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Author: Tansy Troy
Published Date: 02/01/2025
ISBN: 978-93-48111-94-4
Pages: 112
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‘Shuttling across the realms of the natural and the social, the vegetal, animal and human, Troy invites us to reflect on the life cycles and experiences of wanderers and monks, peaks and trees, snow leopards and jackals, woodpeckers and ravens, all creatures great and small. Animated by the deep breath of the wisdom traditions and imparted muscle by scientific inquiry, Tansy Troy’s poetry calls upon us to attempt nothing less than the radical rebooting of the planet, with a charter of responsibilities and freedoms that are truly cosmopolitan in their import, courageously articulated against the tyrannies that seek to overwhelm us at this historical moment.’ — Ranjit Hoskote

‘Reading With Earth as My Witness is like turning a prayer wheel whose circumference spans the girth of Gaia. These poems read like sutras of all creatures great and small, like psalms for the suffering of beasts of burden and their vanishing wild habitats. Tansy has a rare talent for transforming the quotidian into the quintessential. Her words are keenly observed and delicately defined tendrils yet in their combined strength they are a formidable wake-up call to cherish and preserve our fragile planet before it’s too late.’ — Sophia Naz

‘Troy’s With Earth as My Witness is a heartfelt examination of life and its imprints, unveiling and unravelling leitmotifs of nature through its narrative. With language that pierces and embraces, Troy navigates the intricate wilderness of loss, exploring its pervasive impact through multiple dimensions of the microcosm.’ — Vinita Agrawal

‘Moving between city and country, Tansy Troy’s new book is itself a work of witness to the connectedness of our earth. To read With Earth as My Witness is to share in the questioning, celebratory spirit with which this poet travels the world.’ — Fiona Sampson

Tansy Troy is an India-based poet, educator, performer and artist, who grew up in the heart of London’s Covent Garden before travelling to Morocco, Wales and the Himalayas, stopping off at Cambridge University to complete a Master’s degree in English Literature at King’s College. Since then, Tansy’s creative quest has led her to schools, galleries, theatres and concert halls across England and Wales, France and India where she writes and performs plays, songs and musical stories with the young people in her audience.

Ratnakosha, her first publication of verse in India (Red River, 2023), met with acclaim and the invitation to publish in poetry journals Muse India and Plato’s Cave, as well The Hindustan Times, The Scroll, Punch Magazine, Art Amour and The Apple Press. Her poems have been anthologised in The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2023 and The Tagore Anthology.

During term time, Tansy teaches Drama and History at King’s College India. In the holidays, she and her family of many beautiful humans, birds and animals nest in the apple orchards and pine forests of the majestic Himalayas.

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