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Brand New Ancients
Kae Tempest
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Description for Brand New Ancients
Paperback. Winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 6. Weight in Grams: 90.
Kate Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; her dramatic poem Brand New Ancients won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest's wholly unique blend of street poetry, rap and storytelling - combined with the spellbinding delivery of an open-air revivalist - has won her legions of followers all over the UK. Her remarkable stage presence is wholly audible in this poem, a spoken story written to be told with live music. Brand New Ancients is the tale of two families ... Read more
Kate Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; her dramatic poem Brand New Ancients won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest's wholly unique blend of street poetry, rap and storytelling - combined with the spellbinding delivery of an open-air revivalist - has won her legions of followers all over the UK. Her remarkable stage presence is wholly audible in this poem, a spoken story written to be told with live music. Brand New Ancients is the tale of two families ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Number of pages
48
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
92g
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447257684
SKU
V9781447257684
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Ref
99-50
About Kae Tempest
Kate Tempest grew up in South-East London, where she still lives. Starting out as a rapper, she toured the spoken word circuit for a number of years, and now works as a poet and playwright. Her work includes Balance, her first album with her band Sound of Rum; Everything Speaks in its Own Way, a collection of poems with CD ... Read more
Reviews for Brand New Ancients
breathe[s] new life into old classic forms . . . a long poem about us and the gods that's all high-kicking verve and long-range understanding. I loved its vision, powerful and merciful.
Ali Smith, Books of the Year
Observer
Ali Smith, Books of the Year
Observer