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BOOK
Title Let them eat chaos / Kate Tempest
Imprint London : Picador, [2016]
©2016

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Descript 71 pages 19.9 cm
Series Picador poetry
Picador poetry
Note "This poem was written to be read aloud"--Page opposite title page verso
"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. Then a great storm breaks over London, and brings them out into the night to face each other--and offers them a 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"--Page 4 of cover
Subject Alienation
Grannar
Alienation (Social psychology) -- Poetry
Storbritannien -- London
London (England) -- Poetry
Poesi
Poetry.
2000-2099
Classmark 821.92
He.03
ISBN/ISSN 9781509830008 pocket
9781509830015
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