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.

The abstractness and symbolism in many instances obscures the message and meaning of the poem despite the power of the language used by the poet. Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest.I always feel galvanised, inspired and in awe after seeing them totally immersed in their craft and passion. Their books have been translated into eleven languages and published to critical acclaim around the world. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. 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. As always with poetry, some just resonated with me more than others and I can't exactly pinpoint why.

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. 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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.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. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Taking its bearings – and title – from the prime number, Divisible by Itself and One is concerned, ultimately, with integrity: how to live in honest relationship with oneself and others. As with most poetry collection, there were some poems I liked better than others and I do think I like some of Tempest's other works better, but this was still very good and very powerful! I think my favorites were "Mountain road at midnight, Crete" and "The loop", although there were quite a few that made me underline lines like crazy and subsequently lead me to stare at my bedroom ceiling for half an hour (which is my preferred outcome for reading poetry).

Divisible by Itself and One is also a book about human form, the body as boundary and how we are read by the world. Kae Tempest has changed their pronouns since I read their last collection, which I massively enjoyed.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 long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. They received Mercury Music Prize nominations for both of the albums Everybody Down and Let Them Eat Chaos , and two Ivor Novello nominations for their song-writing on The Book of Traps and Lessons . For now it feels like a process of reaching a sense of identification and acceptance through an undoing and a letting go. It’s poems about human relations, and the human condition are underlain and, at times, filled with anger.

I seen them perform some of these poems in person this week and if you have the chance to do the same I can’t recommend enough. Their debut novel, "The Bricks That Built The Houses", sold in a highly competitive auction to Bloomsbury and was published in territories including the UK, US, France, Holland and Brazil in Spring 2015. 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.