Tracey Herd
Tracey Herd | |
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| Born | 1968 |
| Nationality | Scottish / British |
| Alma mater | University of Dundee |
Tracey Herd (born 1968) is a Scottish poet based in Dundee.
Education[edit]
Herd graduated from the University of Dundee in English and American Studies in 1991.
Career[edit]
Herd's early works were published in anthologies such as New Women Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 1990), Eric, Gairfish (Duende: A Dundee Anthology, 1991), The Gregory Anthology 1991-1993, (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993). After winning the Eric Gregory Award in 1993[1] and a Scottish Arts Council Bursary in 1995 Herd published her debut collection No Hiding Place (Bloodaxe, 1995) which was subsequently shortlisted for the Forward Prize's Best First Collection.[2]
Herd's second collection, Dead Redhead (Bloodaxe Books, 2001) was published during her residency as a Creative Writing Fellow at Dundee University.
In 2002 Herd's collaboration with Scottish composer Gordon McPherson saw the production of a short opera titled Descent, performed by the Paragon Ensemble, which ran at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.[3]
Her third published collection, Not In This World (Bloodaxe Books, 2015), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.[4]
From 2009 to 2011 Herd was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Dundee University and currently is a Royal Literary Fund Lector.[5]
One of Herd's great passions is horse-racing. Her first poem was published in Pacemaker, a horse-breeding magazine and she "has written online appreciations and obituaries of horses she admires."[4] As a result of this passion she was invited in 2001 to read at Musselburgh Racecourse.
Style[edit]
Don Paterson has described Herd's subject matter as "innocently domestic" becoming "darkly sexual"[6] and John Kinsella promotes her work as "risky and challenging".[7] Not In This World is a collection on "love and friendship...joy, grief and loss."[6]
References[edit]
- ^ "Prizes | The Society of Authors". www.societyofauthors.org. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
- ^ "Forward Alumni | Forward Arts Foundation". www.forwardartsfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
- ^ "Opera breaking the ultimate highbrow taboo of opera in collaboration with the Paragon Ensemble". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
- ^ a b O'Brien, Sean (2016-01-09). "Not in This World by Tracey Herd review – a study of private betrayal and public performance". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
- ^ "Tracey Herd | Poetry | Scottish Poetry Library". www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
- ^ a b "No Hiding Place | Bloodaxe Books". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
- ^ "Dead Redhead | Bloodaxe Books". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
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