"Kae Tempests erster großer Essay ist zugleich intimes Selbstporträt, hellsichtige Zeitdiagnose und mitreißendes Plädoyer für mehr Selbstsorge, Empathie und Gemeinsinn. Verletzlich und unverstellt erzählt das literarische und musikalische Ausnahmetalent von Ängsten, Rauschzuständen und dem zerstörerischen Wunsch nach Anerkennung - und fragt nach nicht weniger als dem richtigen Leben: Wie erkenne ich meinen Selbstwert in einer Welt, die vor allem auf Gewinn aus ist? Wie könnte eine Gesellschaft aussehen, die nicht von Leistung und Selbstoptimierung, sondern von Nähe und Miteinander geprägt ist? Wie lässt sich Apathie in Hingabe und Neugier verwandeln? Antworten findet Kae Tempest in einer Politik des Mitgefühls und der schöpferischen Kraft: Wo Einsamkeit und Isolation um sich greifen, können Kunst und Kultur auf besondere Weise gemeinschaftsstiftend wirken und inniges Verbundensein spürbar machen - Verbundensein mit uns selbst, unseren Nächsten und dem gesellschaftlichen Umfeld."
"Read by the author, Kae Tempest. Including an audio-exclusive Q&A, in which Kae explores ideas of poetry, music and form.
I want to sing you early songs. Go deeper.
I want to take you back where you began,
Find the scraps of you you hid in secret
And bring them back to life beneath my tongue.
Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest. Ruminative, wise, with a newer, more contemplative and metaphysical note running through, it is a book engaged with the big questions and the emotional states in which we live and create. Some of the poems experiment with form, some are free, and yet all are politically and morally conscious. Divisible by Itself and One is also a book about human form, the body as boundary and how we are read by the world. Taking its bearings - and title - from the prime number, Divisible by Itself and One is concerned, ultimately, with integrity: how to live in honest relationship with oneself and others.
"Tempest delivers their thoughts gorgeously, rhythmically, but also with clarity and a fierce grace" Observer"
"Running Upon The Wires is Kae Tempest’s first book of free-standing poetry since the acclaimed Hold Your Own. In a beautifully varied series of formal poems, spoken songs, fragments, vignettes and ballads, Tempest charts the heartbreak at the end of one relationship and the joy at the beginning of a new love; but also tells us what happens in between, when the heart is pulled both ways at once.
Running Upon The Wires is, in a sense, a departure from their previous work, and unashamedly personal and intimate in its address – but will also confirm Tempest’s role as one of our most important poetic truth–tellers: it will be no surprise to readers to discover that she’s no less a direct and unflinching observer of matters of the heart than they are of social and political change. Running Upon The Wires is a heartbreaking, moving and joyous book about love, in its endings and in its beginnings."
"Hold Your Own, Kate Tempest's first full-length collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias. This four-part work follows him through his transformations from child, man and woman to blind prophet; through this structure, Tempest holds up a mirror to contemporary life in a direct and provocative way rarely associated with poetry.
A vastly popular and accomplished performance poet, Tempest commands a huge and dedicated following on the performance and rap circuit. Brand New Ancients, also available from Picador, won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry and has played to packed concert halls on both sides of the Atlantic."
"Kate Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; her dramatic poem Brand New Ancients won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest’s wholly unique blend of street poetry, rap and storytelling – combined with the spellbinding delivery of an open-air revivalist – has won her legions of followers all over the UK. Her remarkable stage presence is wholly audible in this poem, a spoken story written to be told with live music.
Brand New Ancients is the tale of two families and their intertwining lives, set against the background of the city and braided with classical myth. Here, Tempest shows how the old myths still live on in our everyday acts of violence, bravery, sacrifice and love – and that our lives make tales no less dramatic and powerful than those of the old gods."
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