Let Them Eat Chaos

Kae Tempest

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Picador
03 October 2016

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE

Let Them Eat Chaos, Kae 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 they 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.

By: Kae Tempest
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 126g
ISBN: 9781509830008
ISBN 10: 1509830006
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 03 October 2016
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: https://www.katetempest.co.uk/

Reviews for Let Them Eat Chaos

In terms of visibility, Kate Tempest is currently way ahead of her performance-poet peers. Out on her own, she sounds like a woman who knows exactly what she's doing -- Alexis Petridis * Guardian * Kate Tempest's Let Them Eat Chaos is this year's antidote to Brexit and Trump. Across genre, across politics, across imagination. Rapper. Ranter. Run-a-way. Runway -- Jeanette Winterson * Guardian *