Divisible by Itself and One: Kae Tempest

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A new poetry collection from Britain's foremost truth-teller, in Divisible by Itself and One Kae Tempest masterfully steers a path between their more public-facing performance and dramatic work and the contemplative voice that came to the fore in Running Upon the Wires. The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. Everyone needs to hear and feel the raw sometimes, and these collections always manage the reflection without the melancholy - more stating as a fact but without burying the pain purposefully deep or out of reach. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I enjoy their poems the most when they tell a story, more than when they “just” describe a feeling or situation.

Taking its bearings – and title – from the prime number, Divisible by Itself and One is concerned, ultimately, with integrity: how to live in honest relationship with oneself and others. As with most poetry collection, there were some poems I liked better than others and I do think I like some of Tempest's other works better, but this was still very good and very powerful! The one thing that I find impressive about all of Kae Tempest's work is the nice rhythm that carries through their poetry.Sehr spannend ist es dabei nachzuvollziehen, wie sich im Detail beim Übersetzen entschieden wurde, bestimmte Ausdrucksweisen umzusetzen. I seen them perform some of these poems in person this week and if you have the chance to do the same I can’t recommend enough. Questions of integrity – hence the prime number of the title – are addressed in direct, affecting terms: how can we be true to ourselves while under constant pressure to conform? Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest.

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For now it feels like a process of reaching a sense of identification and acceptance through an undoing and a letting go. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. 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 . Kae Tempest (pronouns: they/them) started out when they were 16, rapping at strangers on night buses and pestering MCs to let them on the mic at raves.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest. The Loop" was the standout, and the final poem, a "Love Song" dedicated to the LGBT+ community was a powerful and beautiful way to close the collection. Taking its bearings - and title - from the prime number, Divisible by Itself and One is concerned, ultimately, with integrity: how to live in honest relationship with oneself and others.

Groaning in the empty garden in a moment that lasted till now, the almighty swore they'd never live again. I think my favorites were "Mountain road at midnight, Crete" and "The loop", although there were quite a few that made me underline lines like crazy and subsequently lead me to stare at my bedroom ceiling for half an hour (which is my preferred outcome for reading poetry). Divisible by Itself and One is also a book about human form, the body as boundary and how we are read by the world.Their debut novel, "The Bricks That Built The Houses", sold in a highly competitive auction to Bloomsbury and was published in territories including the UK, US, France, Holland and Brazil in Spring 2015. Their books have been translated into eleven languages and published to critical acclaim around the world.