{"product_id":"mute-9781780377353","title":"Mute","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracey Herd's \"heartbreaking lines\" in the \"harrowing\" poems of her previous book, \u003ci\u003eNot in This World\u003c\/i\u003e, earned her high praise from the judges of the T.S. Eliot Prize. In \u003ci\u003eMute\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eMute\u003c\/i\u003e is a book which speaks especially to the unheard, and to those who dare not speak.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMute \u003c\/i\u003eis Tracey Herd’s fourth collection from Bloodaxe, following\u003ci\u003e Not in This World\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), a Poetry Book Society Choice which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her debut,\u003ci\u003e No Hiding Place\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and her second collection, \u003ci\u003eDead Redhead\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“The poems in Tracey Herd's \u003ci\u003eNot in this World\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003c\/b\u003e— Pascale Petit, chair of the 2015 T.S. Eliot Prize judges\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tracey Herd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280110498043,"sku":"9781780377353","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781780377353.jpg?v=1772486444","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/mute-9781780377353","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}