ABOUT

I’ve been writing for a long time. I first appeared in a magazine alongside a new poem by Seamus Heaney. In response to the magazine, Philip Hobsbaum wrote, ‘among the lesser known poet, Tracey Hope shows much potential and considerable present power’.

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Like many young people, I took no notice, and it was over twenty years before I decided to take an MA in Creative Writing. I absolutely loved the course. Life was full of work and children. I was living in the Yorkshire Dales and I found my muse in Gunnerside. I became obsessed with the way in which the old industrial remains of the lead mining industry were being reclaimed by the landscape.

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My poems have been published in in erbacce, Orbis and The Lake.  I won a reader award in Orbis and had an issue of erbacce dedicated to my poetry. 

 

In 2024, I won the Cerasus Poetry Prize and my debut pamphlet Myther was published.   I have completed another pamphlet, Once a Mother and am currently working on Reanimate.