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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-139781509830008
eBay Product ID (ePID)228353075
Product Key Features
Publication Year2016
TopicPoetry
Book TitleLet Them Eat Chaos: Mercury Prize Shortlisted
Number of Pages80 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorKae Tempest
Dimensions
Item Height197 mm
Item Weight133 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorKae Tempest