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Let Them Eat Chaos
Let Them Eat Chaos | Kate Tempest
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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. Then a great storm breaks over London, and brings them out into the night to face each other - and offers them a 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.
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ju.ca.no
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Thanks for tagging me @Tanisha_A ! I had a hard time deciding but I think this have been my #top6reads of the year so far!

I‘m tagging anyone who wants to join in🤗🤗

Tanisha_A The BFG is a fantastic read. And i really want to read Brown Girl Dreaming. 🌞 4y
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ju.ca.no
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Read in one sitting and fell in love with it on the first page. It‘s brilliant and left me with goosebumps! 5/5🌟

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ju.ca.no
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Was I very proud of myself for not buying any books recently? Yes. Did I just reward myself for that by buying four books? Maybe 😂

I loved Tempest‘s book „Hold your own“ and am very happy to finally own this one too!

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"Europe is Lost" came up on my music playlist, the introductory lines about an exhausted care worker coming off a double shift seeming so fitting at the moment. It reminded me that I hadn't watched Kae's live performance of the whole poem, which I've just done on You Tube and it's superb.

https://youtu.be/VDt3OunosTQ

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She wipes her forehead with her wrist
She's just back from a double shift
Esther's a carer
doing nights

Behind her
on the kitchen wall
is a black & white picture
of swallows in flight

Her eyes are sore
her muscles ache
she cracks a beer
& swigs it

She holds it
to her thirsty lips
& necks it
till it's finished.

It's 4:18 am again.
Her brain is full
of all she's done that day
She knows
that she won't sleep a wink
before the sun
is on it's way. ⬇

Bookwomble She's worried about the world tonight.

She's worried all the time.
She don't know how
she's supposed
to put it

from her mind . . .

- “England is Lost“

https://youtu.be/QSVyyykaEOo
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Bookwomble D'oh! "Europe is Lost" is the correct title - I was being a Little Englander! 5y
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Sunday reading

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We die so others can be born
We age so others can be young
The point of life is live,
Love if you can
Then pass it on.

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I love Tempest's mix of Greek myth (less evident in this poem than earlier ones), literary references, rap rhymes, and politics. This one focuses on the disparate lives of neighbours, enduring the loneliness of isolation only possible in the disconnecting environment of a big city. Mixing Brexit, Trump, climate change and gentrification, she recorded the poem as a hip hop album, from which this is "Europe is Lost": https://youtu.be/QSVyyykaEOo

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I see it tonight in the stains on my hands
The buildings are screaming
I can't ask for help though, nobody knows me
Hostile, worried, lonely
We move in our packs and these are the rights we were born to
Working and working so we can be all that we want
Then dancing the drudgery off

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The themes of #NeuroticSociety remind me a little of Kate Tempest's Europe is Lost https://youtu.be/QSVyyykaEOo
from the tagged book. @batsy @cinfhen #fiercefeb

Cathythoughts Powerful stuff 7y
batsy Wow! That's lovely. I'd heard of her work but never read... Looks like I should 💙 7y
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Kalalalatja
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I always thought that poetry would be too #complicated for me. I hated analysing poems in school and I never felt like I got it. Until I remembered there are other poets than the long gone, dead, white guys. Now, I am slowly figuring out which kind of poetry I like, and suddenly it's not so complicated at all 👏

#AugustGrrrl

TrishB Me too! I just kept trying and deciding what to like 👍 7y
BooksForYears It's such a great feeling when you find the poetry that speaks to you! Yay!!! 7y
Cinfhen I'm really inspired by the new voices in poetry ~ great choice 7y
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Kalalalatja @TrishB same for me. I'm still in he experimenting fase, but some day, I will figure it out 😄 7y
Kalalalatja @BooksForYears I have been really surprised by how much some poems have moved me! It's amazing what poets can do with so few word 👏 7y
Kalalalatja @Cinfhen those are the ones I'm most drawn to as well. I can just relate more to the topics they write about 👍 7y
needleminding Same. About 10 years ago I came across the collection Staying Alive in a bookstore and after reading a couple poems I bought it. I'm so glad I did otherwise I might not have realized there's poetry that moves me. 7y
Kalalalatja @jaimeisbionic it is such a great realization to make! 👏 7y
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Brilliant stuff.

Kalalalatja I love Kate Tempest! 7y
charl08 This is only the second book of hers I have read, want to try her on audible next! 7y
Kalalalatja I think she would be great on audio! I have seen some clips of her, and that lady can read! 7y
TrishB I've just brought her other book (not read yet) but think I will be getting this too). 7y
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Highly recommend watching Kate Tempest perform her poem "Let Them Eat Chaos" while following along in the book. #katetempest #letthemeatchaos #poetry

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This was an incredible long poem. I followed along in the book while watching a recording of her live performance of it. What an incredible mashup of music, poetry, rap,and performance art. highly recommend -- and do the audio or video of her performing it. She adds layers of impact.

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Let Them Eat Chaos tackles themes and ideas of wealth and greed, consumerism, politics, climate change, and an emerging dissociation from society.

I'm always left in awe of Tempest's writing. It's remarkable how someone so young is so wise and has such a unique, passionate and articulate voice.

This is Tempest's most powerful book so far. Although it lacks the grit of Hold Your Own, her words still hold the same power and passion.

5/5 ⭐️

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I'm impatient to start reading, having been lent this book by a colleague. Kate Tempest is a favourite of mine so expecting great things. #poetry

Jamesmelvinmitchell Welcome Cecilia. 7y
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Made one purchase at Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Of course I said yes to the offer of a bookshop stamp in my book. @TrishB - It's a browser's haven.

LeahBergen Yay! (I said "yes" to the stamp, too ??) 7y
Lindy @LeahBergen 👍👍 7y
TrishB I can't wait. I'll be getting a book just to get a stamp 😀👍 7y
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Lindy @TrishB I was thrilled to browse UK titles I'd never before seen. I was mostly in the poetry section, where there were plenty of American titles also, plus a few Canadian. 7y
TrishB I'm even more excited about going now 😀 3 weeks today! Enjoy the rest of your break. 7y
Grrlbrarian LOVE. ❤️ So happy you got to go! Such a cool place! 7y
Lcsmcat How wonderful to get to go there! 7y
Lindy @TrishB @Grrlbrarian @Lcsmcat I feel very lucky. ☺️ 7y
andrew61 Somewhere i would love to visit one day- enjoy 7y
Hobbinol ❤️❗️ 7y
diovival Yay to getting stamped! 7y
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Kalalalatja
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Kate Tempest's poetry is raw, hard hitting and critical in just the right way. It is beautifully written, and this new long poem deserves to be read out loud (I did). It almost feels like a song and I couldn't help swaying along to the rythm 👌

ReadingEnvy She has some great performances in YouTube too, with that accent it is everything! 8y
Kalalalatja @ReadingEnvy I have seen some of them, she is just awesome! 8y
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This is why I love Kate Tempest 👌

#currentlyreading

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Kalalalatja
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There is something rotten in the state of Denmark. Or maybe it is just raining 💦
Trying to get ready for my day with some poetry, coffee, and relaxation in my bathrobe for just a little longer

#currentlyreading

julesG Let's hope it's just rain. 😊 8y
LauraAndTaraAndBooks Love love LOVE this...saw her perform it last week and going again next week. Little bit obsessive and stalker-ish? Maybe! Hope you're enjoying it! 8y
Kalalalatja @LauraAndTaraAndBooks I am so jealous! I would love to see her live, I have only seen her on Youtube. And not stalker-ish at all! I would probably do the same 😄 8y
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My little #poetry collection 📚 I have made a resolution to read one poetry collection a month, and so far, I am doing well! 👍

#AprilBookShowers

Matchkim Have you read Crow yet? If so, did you like? I read Grief is the Thing With Feathers and loved it. Trying to decide if I want to read Crow. 8y
Kalalalatja @Matchkim I have, I read Crow together with a reread of Grief..., around 10 days ago. I liked the collection, and especially together with the novel, as it gave me a bit more knowledge about Crow as a character 😊 8y
Matchkim Sweet. I will add it to my next order. 8y
TrishB Great pic 💓 8y
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Received this one as a present from What Kamil Reads. So sweet of him to send it to me. Can't wait to pick it up in January. #poetry #picadorpoetry #katetempest

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