# Singing to the Eumenides

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2025/06/13/singing-to-the-eumenides/
- Published: 2025-06-13T16:08:30+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author: **Tansy Troy[⌊A sample cover of the book: teal handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Singing-to-the-Eumenides-1.jpeg)
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Pages:** 94 **Year of Publication:** 2025 **Price: **₹400 **ISBN: **978-81-985733-
2-2 (9788198573322)

_**About the Author**_
 Tansy Troy is an India-based poet, educator, performer and
artist who grew up in the heart of Covent Garden before travelling to Greece, Morocco,
Wales, Japan and the Himalayas, stopping off en route to complete her Bachelor’s
and Master’s degrees in English Literature at King’s College, Cambridge. 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.

She has published two collections of poetry prior to this one, both with Red River:
_Ratnakosha_ (her first publication of verse in India, 2023) and _With Earth as 
My Witness_ (2025). Her poems have been anthologised in _The Yearbook of Indian 
Poetry in English_ (2023) and _The Tagore Anthology_ (2024). Tansy also edits and
curates _The Apple Press_, a young people’s eco-journal hand-bound and printed on
khadi paper. The journal provides a platform for young artists and writers, as well
as poets and authors known around the globe. She reviews the work of fellow poets,
artists and theatrical creators in _The Scroll, Open Magazine, Art Amour, __The 
Chakkar_ and _Setu_.

During term time, Tansy teaches Drama in Bhopal. She is an ArtReach fellow for 2024-
25, creating and curating work of young people in care homes in Delhi. When school
is out, she nests with her family of many beautiful humans, birds and animals in
apple orchards and pine forests of the majestic Himalayas.

You can join her on these many adventures at [voice_of_the_turtle ](https://www.instagram.com/voice_of_the_turtle/)(
poetry), [the_adventures_of_tara](https://www.instagram.com/the_adventures_of_tara/)(
children’s theatre) and _[The Apple Press](https://www.instagram.com/the.applepress/)._

_**About the Book**_

Tansy says of her book:

“Amongst the books I’ve birthed thus far, _**Singing to the Eumenides** _feels like
the love-child. Perhaps this is because I see so much of myself reflected in each
poem. These are songs I recognise of old, tunes I wanted to hear echoed back, like
those rebounding off the Barabar cave walls; these are reflections that correspond
to the many I have been, to the one I am now.

This book is a journal, a memoir, a prophesy, a protest, a celebration, a homage,
a whisper, a cry.

While its roots are in many places, in all those I’ve ever lived – London, Greece,
Morocco, India, Wales, Cambridge, Japan, France – its home-key is undoubtedly that
of India, where almost all these poems were composed (on a balcony in Manali), typed
out (on an ancient school laptop in Rohtak) and produced (in style, at the capital
of the literary world, Kolkata).”

_**Teaser**_

_Cloudburst_
 _For R.H._

Horned rainclouds, water-buffalo grey,
 have buffeted the insensible for long enough:
now they urge action, jolting awake the untimely dead to testify to wrongs.

As smell of lilac once opened graves,
 and broken limbs hobbled into another crooked
story, so this cloudburst begs to be heard.

Enlivening the outstretched tongue,
 hoping to catch each quickened drop before 
it bone-dries.

_**Contents**_
 41 poems spread across 6 sections

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