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Hold Your Own

By Kae Tempest

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Hold Your Own

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Description
Kate Tempest, winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for Brand New Ancients and widely regarded as the UK's leading spoken word poet, has produced a new poem-sequence of electrifying power. Based on the myth of the blind prophet Tiresias, Hold Your Own is a riveting tale of youth and experience, sex and love, wealth and poverty, community and alienation. Walking in the forest one morning, a young man disturbs two copulating snakes - and is punished by the goddess Hera, who turns him into a woman. This is only the beginning of his journey . . . Weaving elements of classical myth, autobiography and social commentary, Tempest uses the story of the gender-switching, clairvoyant Tiresias to create four sequences of poems: 'childhood', 'manhood', 'womanhood' and 'blind profit'. The result is a rhythmically hypnotic tour de force - and a hugely ambitious leap forward for one of the UK's most talented and compelling young writers. An audio download of Tempest's spellbinding performance of Hold Your Own is also available.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
128
Release Date:
2014-10-09
Publication Date:
2014-10-09
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1447241215
ISBN13:
9781447241218
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
198 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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