Tracey Herd

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Tracey Herd
Born1968
NationalityScottish / British
Alma materUniversity of Dundee

Tracey Herd (born 1968) is a Scottish poet based in Dundee.

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Education

Herd graduated from the University of Dundee in English and American Studies in 1991.

Career

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

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]

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References

  1. "Prizes | The Society of Authors". www.societyofauthors.org. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  2. "Forward Alumni | Forward Arts Foundation". www.forwardartsfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  3. "Opera breaking the ultimate highbrow taboo of opera in collaboration with the Paragon Ensemble". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  4. 1 2 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.
  5. "Tracey Herd | Poetry | Scottish Poetry Library". www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  6. 1 2 "No Hiding Place | Bloodaxe Books". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  7. "Dead Redhead | Bloodaxe Books". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Retrieved 2018-02-23.