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As she celebrates the release of her third album, she reflects on where her place is in Britain's powerful cultural moment. "Fuck the Poem" is my favorite if I had to pick one, but when I was going through the collection to pick out a few others I enjoyed, I found I was tabbing almost every one. The structure sort of follows the stages of the life of Tiresias (from Sophocles' plays) who we see as a boy, then a woman, then a grown man, then a blind prophet. I don't naturally reach for poetry so I don't know how to rate this accurately. Her writing is beautiful and her words poignant. The first poem, Tiresias, is possibly my favorite poem ever. (But at one point, she uses the word traThe framework of this poetry collection is based on the myth of the blind prophet Tiresias, who lived for some time in both the male and female gender. Or a spoken-word artist with hip-hop connections. Today, Tempest says she can namedrop "a hundred MCs" whose work excites her today and attributes that to the time that's passed.
We’d love your help. On any given day, you may see Kate Tempest working as a poet. 1. See more of Kate Tempest on Facebook. One thought on “ Poetry review: Hold Your Own by Kate Tempest ... You are commenting using your Facebook account. But this collection is strong.I am not sure if I should give it three or four stars. With a world tour in the works, Tempest acknowledges the challenge of turning "We've been booked for several European festivals off the strength of our last time out on tour, which was more upbeat and musically-driven," Tempest admits. The actual poem started to have its integrity in the second bit that I jammed onto the first one. October 9th 2014 Hold it til you feel it there, As dark and dense and wet as earth, As vast and bright and sweet as air. But if you’re satisfied with where you’re at, with who you are,Stay connected with the New Story at Findhorn by signing up to our mailing list for occasional news and a weekly round up of blog posts.We will not give your email to third parties, and you can unsubscribe at any time. "This immediate, direct connection to other people through lyricism, I just became obsessed with it," she says. But this poetry collection is so layered and intricate and I connected with this in a way that I rarely do with books, let alone poetry. The poems are arranged around these stages, some are specifically about Tiresias, some not.
Or a spoken-word artist with hip-hop connections. "She attributes much of this debt to the Golden Age of the '90s, an era she feels cast a large shadow over the past 20 years. We invite you to participate and to help us accelerate our collective understanding of what might be, what is emerging and what must change, both in us and in the Human Story.
by Picador It is clear that Tempest found quite a bit of symmetry with Tiresias, and many poems outside the Tiresias-specific poems also look at gender through lenses of love, relationships, and stereotypes. This was really different to the poetry I'm used to reading, but I really enjoyed it. Watch the video for Hold Your Own from Kate Tempest's The Book Of Traps And Lessons for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. I've recently gotten into spoken-word poetry and it is definitely my jam!