# Earthsongs

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2023/05/24/earthsongs/
- Published: 2023-05-24T13:06:29+00:00
- Author: us\_basu

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**Author: **Riya Kartha[⌊A sample cover of the boo<a href=⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Earthsongs-2.jpeg)
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Pages:** 105 **Year of Publication:** 2023 **Price:** Rs 400 **ISBN:** 978-81-961291-
2-5 (9788196129125)

_**About the Author**_
 Riya Kartha has been a journalist, a photographer, an arts
facilitator and a teacher, although if you’d really like to know, Riya identifies
more as a storyteller and a dreamer, a seeker and a poet. While working by day to
save the world with her students through one adventurous—and humbling—classroom 
experience after another, Riya spends her nights writing poetry and children’s books
in the hope of lending some softness to the world. Currently working on a PhD in
Education at the University of Cambridge, Riya continues to write poetry as a means
to question and make sense of the world we live in, and to reach the quiet places
within people, where she is convinced that a shared love of humanity and all things
good reside.

_**Teaser**_

_Fabric_

We are made
 of the light of stars of snatches of song of colour and chaos of want
and wonder of melancholy mists and the stories of ages, of ancient hands and haunted
words of distant drumbeats and dappled sunlight, of silent volcanoes and the anger
of a thousand suns, of black and white islands among oceans of grey. We are made
of dancing eyes and quivering tongues, of iron and will o’ the wisps of arrows and
feathers of broken dams and healed scars, of gold and dirt of filth and filigree
of summer skies and the free rain, of symphonies of the night, of the gusts of winter
wind and fragments of time. We are made of the people we meet and the tales they
tell, of wild rivers and yellowed photographs of hollow memories and yearning horizons,
we are made of monsters of madness, of magic.

_**Contents**_
 83 poems spread across 4 sections