Running Upon the Wires: Poems
By Kae Tempest
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
“Running Upon the Wires is full body art, smack against love in all its stages, a battle to the finish-or the beginning-the epic struggle (and ecstasy) as only Kae Tempest could record.” -Bob Holman
My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires (James Joyce, Dubliners).
Kae Tempest is as bold an observer of the human heart as they are of social and political change. Their raw and exhilarating new collection of poems throbs with love's extremes: the end of one relationship, the budding of another, and what happens when the heart is pulled both ways at once.
Tempest's "wires" are the classical poet's harp, the technological wires of communication, and the neural wires of feeling. Their electrifying new verse weaves interpersonal struggle into a cathartic and memorable work of art about joy and despair, confusion and clarity, self-destruction and revival. Explosively lyrical and pulsing with feeling, Running Upon the Wires is frayed yet powerful in its pain, determined to speak and find love in a human community of “terrifying beauty.”
Kae Tempest
Kae Tempest is a poet. They are also a writer, a lyricist, a performer and a recording artist. They have published plays, poems, a novel, a book-length essay, released albums and toured extensively, selling out shows from Reykjavik to Rio de Janeiro. They received Mercury Music Prize nominations for both of the albums Everybody Down and Let Them Eat Chaos, and two Ivor Novello nominations for their song-writing on The Book of Traps and Lessons. They were named a Next Generation Poet in 2014, a once-in-a-decade accolade. They received the Ted Hughes Award for their long-form narrative poem Brand New Ancients and the Leone D’Argento at the Venice Teatro Biennale for their work as a playwright. Their books have been translated into eleven languages and published to critical acclaim around the world. They were born in London in 1985 where they still live. They hope to continue putting words together for a long time.
Read more from Kae Tempest
Brand New Ancients Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hold Your Own Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Let Them Eat Chaos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Running Upon the Wires
Related ebooks
Drain Songs: Stories and a Novella Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpill: A collection of poems by Hannah Ochocki Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Boat for the Sinking Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn Roll the Days Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBreakfast in Brighton and Other Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMoments From Within Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCygnet: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Section 17 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsex traction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBirthday Girl With Possum Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOne:Eleven Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dust Settles: Grieving through Poetry and Prose Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHot Girl: Thoughts on Young Womanhood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsB-Sides Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe One Girl Gremlin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLegacy in Words Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhere It Ends And Begins Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings1994: Poems of Love for You and Me Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnthem Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsElephant. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBefore I Disappear Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5COLOR ME EXISTENTIAL*: *NOT UR KID'S COLORING BOOK Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLaments of the Madman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsComfort Food Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pecking Order Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dirty Laundry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThis is How It Starts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alexis: Greek Billionaires Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTen Things I've Learnt About Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Poetry For You
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Things We Don't Talk About Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Better Be Lightning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Favorite Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Waste Land and Other Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDream Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Carrying: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Running Upon the Wires
0 ratings0 reviews