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Mute
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781780377353
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Dec 21 2027
Pages: 80
Language: English
Tracey Herd's heartbreaking lines in the harrowing poems of her previous book, Not in This World, earned her high praise from the judges of the T.S. Eliot Prize. In Mute, traumatised voices are silenced or haunted in a stifling, claustrophobic world, unable to unfreeze. Yet in these poems, what is trapped in the head or buried in the heart can finally be heard and shared. Mute is a book which speaks especially to the unheard, and to those who dare not speak.
Mute is Tracey Herd's fourth collection from Bloodaxe, following Not in This World (2015), a Poetry Book Society Choice which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her debut, No Hiding Place (1996), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and her second collection, Dead Redhead (2001), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
The poems in Tracey Herd's Not in this World are harrowing, as if sculpted with an ice-pick in the glaciers of depression. Yet the ice is fiery, survival is at stake in an unsentimental world, where the diction is as rigorous as the gaze. There are Hollywood starlets, Ruffian the racehorse, and self-portraits where Herd confronts her own demons. Heart-breaking lines... conjure a world pared to the bone. It is rare to come across lines as stripped and taut as hers. -- Pascale Petit, chair of the 2015 T.S. Eliot Prize judges
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