Let Them Eat Chaos
06 October 2016Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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...
Details
06 October 201664 pages
9781509830015Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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 doingAlexis 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. RunwayJeanette Winterson, Guardian
