Hold Your Own
- Author Kae Tempest
- Narrator Kae Tempest
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Run Time 1 hour and 31 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Poetry, Poetry by individual poets.
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What to expect
Hold Your Own, Kate Tempest's first full-length collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias. This four-part work follows him through his transformations from child, man and woman to blind prophet; through this structure, Tempest holds up a mirror to contemporary life in a direct and provocative way rarely associated with poetry.
A vastly popular and accomplished performance poet, Tempest commands a huge and dedicated following on the performance and rap circuit. Brand New Ancients, also available from Picador, won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry and has played to packed concert halls on both sides of the Atlantic.
Critics Review
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Poet, performer, novelist: the rise of the uncategorisable Kate Tempest
Guardian -
Tempest’s voice looks to be one we will be hearing for some while to come
Guardian -
Dazzling wordsmithery. . . As anyone who has seen her perform will know, she doesn’t just paint pictures with words when she performs, she paints fireworks in the night sky
Metro -
A winning wielder of words. . . The common thread through Tempest’s diverse work is her love of words. In mesmerising rhyme and galloping rhythm, her passion for the classics collides with urban street slang, social observation, consumerism and the concerns of contemporary youth
Observer -
The picture emerges of a diverse, fluid writer and performer who is spreading her wings anew
Press (York) -
Hold Your Own is a collection of discrete, sometimes startlingly intimate moments by turns tender, funny, and angry. . . among the warmest moments in the collection are those that celebrate this particular, catalytic thrill – of the instant when words are not just lived, but delivered
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