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Running Upon the Wires

By: Kae Tempest
Narrated by: Kae Tempest
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About this listen

Running Upon The Wires is Kae Tempest’s first book 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.

Running Upon The Wires is, in a sense, a departure from their previous work, and unashamedly personal and intimate in its address – but will also confirm Tempest’s role as one of our most important poetic truth–tellers: it will be no surprise to readers to discover that she’s no less a direct and unflinching observer of matters of the heart than they are of social and political change. Running Upon The Wires is a heartbreaking, moving and joyous book about love, in its endings and in its beginnings.

©Kate Tempest 2018 (P)2018 Macmillan Digital Audio Literature & Fiction Love Poetry Themes & Styles Heartfelt

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My mind followed kates through every joyous moment and every painful fall. Would reccomend for all.

Emotional, human.

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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.

loved it

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You do it every time Kate, glad to have you back in town again
JJ

Another masterpiece by the excentral Kate tempest!

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The perfect encapsulation of the ebb and flow of relationships. So empowering to hear the natural beauty of lesbian relationships without patriarchal objectification.

Beautiful

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