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Running Upon the Wires
- Narrated by: Kae Tempest
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Poetry
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Running Upon the Wires is Kae Tempest’s first audiobook of free-standing poetry since the acclaimed Hold Your Own. In a beautifully varied series of formal poems, spoken songs, fragments, vignettes and ballads, Tempest charts the heartbreak at the end of one relationship and the joy at the beginning of a new love but also tells us what happens in between, when the heart is pulled both ways at once.
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- Hannah Tiernan
- 08-06-20
Beautiful
The perfect encapsulation of the ebb and flow of relationships. So empowering to hear the natural beauty of lesbian relationships without patriarchal objectification.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-08-19
Emotional, human.
My mind followed kates through every joyous moment and every painful fall. Would reccomend for all.
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- charly
- 08-09-18
loved it
I love Kate tempest. I loved this book. the poems are different from her songs but still have her style and eloquence with words.
If I had to describe them it would be honest and beautiful.
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- JJ Johnson
- 07-09-18
Another masterpiece by the excentral Kate tempest!
You do it every time Kate, glad to have you back in town again
JJ