New poetry from a fiercely talented, Ted Hughes Award-winning poet.
Kae Tempest was born in London in 1985. Their work includes the
plays Wasted, Glasshouse and Hopelessly Devoted; the poetry
collections Everything Speaks in its Own Way and Hold Your Own; the
albums Everybody Down, Balance and Let Them Eat Chaos; the long
poems Brand New Ancients and Let Them Eat Chaos; and their debut
novel, The Bricks that Built the Houses.
They were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for their debut
album, Everybody Down, and received the Ted Hughes Award and a
Herald Angel Award for Brand New Ancients. Kae was also named a
Next Generation poet in 2014.
Poet, performer, novelist: the rise of the uncategorisable Kate
Tempest
*Guardian*
Tempest's voice looks to be one we will be hearing for some while
to come
*Guardian*
Dazzling wordsmithery. . . As anyone who has seen her perform will
know, she doesn't just paint pictures with words when she performs,
she paints fireworks in the night sky
*Metro*
A winning wielder of words. . . The common thread through Tempest's
diverse work is her love of words. In mesmerising rhyme and
galloping rhythm, her passion for the classics collides with urban
street slang, social observation, consumerism and the concerns of
contemporary youth
*Observer*
The picture emerges of a diverse, fluid writer and performer who is
spreading her wings anew
*Press (York)*
Hold Your Own is a collection of discrete, sometimes startlingly
intimate moments by turns tender, funny, and angry. . . among the
warmest moments in the collection are those that celebrate this
particular, catalytic thrill - of the instant when words are not
just lived, but delivered
*Skinny*
Hold Your Own is intellectually as well as emotionally
exhilarating, yet unafraid to challenge the purveyors of wilful
obscurity . . . With her poems about change and growth and passion,
this girl is going places - and I'll be glad to go with
*Daily Mail*
Her reworking of the Tiresias myth has all of the form's virtues .
. . a powerful immediacy
*Belfast Telegraph*
Her opening poem here is the longest, an updating of the story of
Tiresias, and is both politically and emotionally stark, while the
rest explore the human passion with a refreshing toughness
*Sunday Herald*
Tempest collection feels like a game-changer. Tempest has forged
her own voice, unlike anything else in the mainstream poetry
world
*Independent on Sunday*
Tempest follows her Ted Hughes Prize-winning Brand New Ancients
with a bold retelling of the myth of Tiresias. In a voice at once
inviting and challenging, erudite and incongruous, the 28-year-old
south Londoner confirms her position as one of literature's most
remarkable millennials
*Financial Times*
Hold Your Own sees her stepping into the world of traditional "slim
volume verse," publishing a book of poems to be read as well as
heard. And she steps in with style . . . The contrast between the
wasteground filled with shopping trolleys and used condoms and the
miraculous transformation is dramatic and comic and moving . . .
Either in person or on the page, she shows she's got sharp,
important things to say and the poetic skills to say them
*Morning Star*
Like the great Philip Larkin, Ms. Tempest has an ability to write
about big, metaphysical subjects in the most vernacular language,
while conjuring a sense of contemporary English life with a handful
of chiseled lines . . .She demonstrates a knack - in both "Brand
New Ancients" and "Hold Your Own" - for being able to shuttle
easily back and forth between the mundane and the mythic, the banal
and philosophical, and for using her pictorial imagination to sear
specific images into the reader's mind
*New York Times*
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