Let Them Eat Chaos by Kae Tempest Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 translated by Forrest Gander

translated by Forrest Gander

conviction

their pleasure: clubs

Published by Random House on 05

Moving from the melodic to the political

Let Them Eat Chaos by Kae Tempest Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 translated by Forrest GanderLet Them Eat Chaos, Kae Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbours inhabit the same London street, but are all unknown to each other. The clock freezes in the small hours, and, one by one, we see directly into their lives: lives that are damaged, disenfranchised, lonely, broken, addicted, and all, apparently, without