Hopscotch

Description

About The Book :

“Hopscotch” is a book containing 40 poems. It’s a meditation on relationships – our relationships with the world, with ourselves and with Mother Earth. The title is an acknowledgement of the skill, planning, focus and energy, that the game of hopscotch, which we played as children, demands from the players. The same is true of modern life. The skills we require as adults are honed in childhood games. The central theme running through the 40 poems is humanity’s complex relations with the world around it.

About The Author :

Vidya Hariharan is an enthusiastic traveler, manic reader and serial procrastinator. She lives and works as a lecturer in Mumbai, India. In her spare time, she enjoys solving crossword puzzles. The poetry gene jumped two generations, as her great-grandfather P.S. Rama Iyer was a Malayalam language poet and author.
Some of her haiku. haibun and poems can be found on Poem Hunter, All Poetry, Café Dissensus, Setu, Zoetic Press Non-binary Review, Glomag, Borderless, Mayari Literature, The Bamboo Hut, The Wise Owl, Poetry Superhighway, Poems India, Contemporary Haiku Online, Pan Haiku Review and Under the Basho. She is also a book reviewer, with her reviews appearing in the Ultramarine Literary Review. Her short stories can be read in Micromance Magazine and Flash Phantoms. Her poem “Open Heart Surgery” was selected as Editor’s Pick by Muse India’s YS in September 2024. She was also shortlisted for the Editor’s Choice Award for her haiku from Under the Basho in 2024.
Her debut collection, The Migrants and Other Poems was published in March 2026 and is available for purchase on Amazon, Flipkart and Kindle.