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Let Them Eat Chaos

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b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE/b>br>br>Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbours inhabit the same London street, but are all unknown to each other. The clock freezes in the small hours, and, one by one, we see directly into their lives: lives that are damaged, disenfranchised, lonely, broken, addicted, and all, apparently, without hope. Then a great storm breaks over London, and brings them out into the night to face each other - and their last chance to connect. Tempest argues that our alienation from one another has bred a terrible indifference to our own fate, but she counters this with a plea to challenge the forces of greed which have conspired to divide us, and mend the broken home of our own planet while we still have time. Let Them Eat Chaos is a cri de coeur and a call to action, and, both on the page and in Tempest's electric performance, one of the most powerful poetic statements of the year.

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Authors Kae Tempest, Kate Tempest
Publisher Picador Uk
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.09.2016
 
EAN 9781509830008
ISBN 978-1-5098-3000-8
No. of pages 80
Dimensions 153 mm x 198 mm x 6 mm
Series Picador Poetry
Picador Poetry
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama

London, Greater London, POETRY / General, General, Poetry, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Subjects & Themes / Places

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