Divisible by Itself and One: Kae Tempest

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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. Stories of transformation hold a central place in Tempest's work, their best to date; here, the poet considers the changes that are sometimes required to be oneself. 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. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I always feel galvanised, inspired and in awe after seeing them totally immersed in their craft and passion.

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? I read Kae Tempest 's novel The Bricks That Built the Houses a while ago and it is still up there with my favourites. They received the Ted Hughes Award for their long-form narrative poem Brand New Ancients and the Leone D’Argento at the Venice Teatro Biennale for their work as a playwright. It is more powerful than a surrender and it becomes celebratory but doesn't shy away from pain and anger and the rawness of the unshaping process.Ruminative, wise, with a newer, more contemplative and metaphysical note running through, it is a book engaged with the big questions and the emotional states in which we live and create.

Even in cases where the poem itself didn't touch me as much as others, it still had a melodic flow that made it very enjoyable to read. 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. Infused with all of their rich lyrical skill and unforgettable imagery, Tempest's bravura collection mines themes of transformation, identity and reaction against conformity with unparalleled insight and verve. 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.I think I will read whatever Kae Tempest will publish, even though the poems in this collection didn’t speak to me as much as their previous work.

Tempest uses words like a time traveller, taking the reader into fragments of their own lives, successes and heartbreaks. Divisible by Itself and One is also a book about human form, the body as boundary and how we are read by the world.They have published plays, poems, a novel, a book-length essay, released albums and toured extensively, selling out shows from Reykjavik to Rio de Janeiro. Kae Tempest has changed their pronouns since I read their last collection, which I massively enjoyed. As always with poetry, some just resonated with me more than others and I can't exactly pinpoint why. Sehr spannend ist es dabei nachzuvollziehen, wie sich im Detail beim Übersetzen entschieden wurde, bestimmte Ausdrucksweisen umzusetzen.