Let Them Eat Chaos

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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 neighbors 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 own 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 acri de c ur 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. Best Read Let Them Eat Chaos author Kate Tempest For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr The great fuffa Italian version below A purely narrative poem which is having a great success in the UK and across Europe it focuses on seven characters, at times in the form of a monologue, at times in third person The narrative pretext is actually quite fascinating it s 4.18a.m., we are in a street in South London and in that street, at that time of the day, there are seven people who, for one reason or another, are still awake, each in their own flat The spark which lights the fire, The great fuffa Italian version below A purely narrative poem which is having a great success in the UK and across Europe it focuses on seven characters, at times in the form of a monologue, at times in third person The narrative pretext is actually quite fascinating it s 4.18a.m., we are in a street in South London and in that street, at that time of the day, there are seven people who, for one reason or another, are still awake, each in their own flat The spark which lights the fire, then, is in understanding why those people are not sleeping, but the aim of the poem is that of turning their existence inside out Nonetheless, it s impossible...I received this in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley Thank you to the author, Kate Tempest, and the publisher, Picador, for this opportunity There is a raw power in this piece that drew me in from the very first line The focus is on a freeze frame of time Our omniscient and omnipresent protagonist in a nameless and faceless entity swooping into London, from above Seven individuals are chosen, seemingly at random, and their innermost thoughts, desires and fears are laid bare for t I received this in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley Thank you to the author, Kate Tempest, and the publisher, Picador, for this opportunity There is a raw power in this piece that drew me in from the very first line The focus is on a freeze frame of time Our omniscient and omnipresent protagonist in a nameless and faceless entity swooping into London, from above Seven individuals are chosen, seemingly at random, an...The new Waste Land Kate Tempest puts into words feelings I ve never been able to articulate I thought it was just me, but it isn t An unsettling, yet strangely reassuring read.Very lovely and inspiring and soulful read, reads like alight hearted contemporary Bukowski, soaked in wine not whisky.I first read Tempest last year, with her amazing collection Hold Your Own , which dealt with sexuality and gender, and I quickly followed it by reading her less brilliant, Brand New Ancients , a single poem about generations This one follows the same principle, a long story of the people of today, tired, hopeless, living the best way they can We follow the struggles of seven people who live in the same building, but don t know each other, until a storm wedges them together, and their last ho I first read Tempest last year, with her amazing collection Hold Y...3.5 This is meant to be read aloud, but I think you can still hear the slam poetry rhythms in your head when reading to yourself The poet imagines seven disparate people in one London neighborhood, all of whom happen to be awake at 4 18 a.m as a huge storm a Tempest hits Moving between their lives and the state of the nation, the poem shows the mess we ve made of our society and our planet and posits love as the way back to wholeness.Favorite lines Rich flats, broke flats New flats 3.5 This is meant to be read aloud, but I think you can still hear the slam poetry rhythms in your head when reading to yourself The poet imagines seven disparate people in one London neighborhood, all of whom happen to be awake at 4 18 a.m as a huge storm a Tempest hits Moving between their lives and the state of the nation, the poem shows the mess we ve made of our society and our planet and posits love as the way back to wholeness.Favorite lines Rich flats, broke flats New flats Old flats Luxury bespoke flats And this has got to be a joke flats We clothe the corpse of our culture parade it as Great Britain, hark back to dead times and dead thinking Call on the pillars of dead men stifled and unloving No isle is an island unsure and divided just one little clod off the mainland, sinking Life is much broader than borders but ... Let Them Eat Chaos un poema vulcanico ed eclettico, ti colpisce frontalmente, ti stordisce e ti lascia l , a domandarti se sia ancora lecito sperare nell umanit.Nel dettaglio, un ritratto di sette persone che alle 4.18 di mattina sono sveglie nei loro appartamenti di Londra ma potrebbe benissimo essere qualsiasi altra metropoli, qualsiasi citt caotica, affollata, dove le vite dei singoli si mischiano con le disgrazie di tutti gli altri, siano essi immigrati, pensionati, disoccupati, singl Let Them Eat Cha...Picture the world.Older than she ever thought she d get She looks at herself as she spins.Arms loaded with the trophiesof her most successful child The pylons and mines,The power plants shimmer in her still, cool breath.Is that a smile playing across her lips Or is it a tremor of dread This was amazing Beautiful and perfect I read it out loud how this poem was meant and found Let Them Eat Chaos breathtaking It is one long poem about seven people living in the same street in London, up aPicture the world.Older than she ever thought she d get She looks at herself as she spins.Arms loaded with the trophiesof her most successful child The pylons and mines,The power plants shimmer in her still, cool breath.Is that a smile playing across her lips Or is it a tremor of dread ...Finally got my own copy and re read it Still wow.I was sent this free in exchange for a review from the publisher This book is definitely designed to be read aloud and that really enhanced my experience of it as I could say the words as they were written and pace it to be dramatic or intense at all the right moments I don t often read poetry and this is the first poem of this style I ve ever read I was very pleasantly surprised by how very much I enjoyed this and the way that I related to some of the characters, emotions and the isolation I was sent this free in exchange for a review from the publisher This book is definitely designed to be read aloud and that really enhanced my experience of it as I could say the words as they were written and pace it to be dramatic or intense at all the right ...

Let Them Eat Chaos
  • 10 April 2017
  • Paperback
  • 80 pages
  • 1632868776
  • Kate Tempest
  • Let Them Eat Chaos