No Hiding PlaceNo Hiding Place is the début collection from a highly original young Scottish poet whose influences range from detective stories and fairy-tales - with their battles between good and evil - to the films of Marilyn Monroe and Kay Kendall. Tracey Herd's title-poem takes the style of a 1950s film noir, with echoes of Raymond Chandler, pointing up the harsh sense pervading many of her poems that there is no hiding place from death, God and the Day of Judgement. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. |
Contents
The Survivors | 9 |
The Bathing Girls | 10 |
11 | 11 |
The Snow Storm | 12 |
Soap Queen | 13 |
The Pink Rose Rings | 14 |
Sir Ivor | 15 |
In the Glassy Stream | 16 |
Pat Taffe and Arkle | 32 |
Marilyn Climbs Out of the Pool | 33 |
On Location | 34 |
Indian Summer | 35 |
The Understudy | 36 |
The Dungeon | 37 |
The Nightmare of the Gallops Watcher | 38 |
Playing the Clown | 39 |
Words of Love | 17 |
Girl Detective | 18 |
The Siege | 20 |
Stallion Graveyard Kentucky | 21 |
Rosery | 22 |
The Tapestry | 23 |
Missing | 24 |
Coronach | 25 |
The Dinner Party | 26 |
Paris in the Spring | 27 |
The Gatecrashers | 28 |
The Sun Slips Over | 30 |
Brief Encounter | 31 |
Big Girls | 40 |
After the Impossible Dream | 41 |
The FrontRunner | 43 |
The Exhibits | 44 |
The Bully | 45 |
Sleepless | 46 |
47 | 47 |
On the Glittering Beaches | 48 |
Hyperions Bones | 49 |
Artifice | 50 |
No Hiding Place | 51 |
Copyright | |