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Brand New Ancients (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781632862075)
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xWith this dazzling modern myth in verse, Kate Tempest became the youngest winner of the prestigious Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.
Yes, the gods are on the park bench, the gods are on the bus, /The gods are all here, the gods are in us. /The gods are timeless, fearless, fighting to be bold, /conviction is a heavy hand to hold, /grip it, winged sandals tearing up the pavement -- /you, me, everyone: Brand New Ancients.
Kate Tempest's words in Brand New Ancientsare written to be read aloud; the book combines poem, rap, and humanist sermon, by turns tender and fierce. Set in Southeast London, Brand New Ancientsfinds the mythic in the mundane. It is the story of two half-brothers, Thomas and Clive, unknown to each other -- Thomas the result of an affair between his mother and Clive's father. Tempest, with wide-ranging empathy, takes us inside the passionless marriage of Jane and Kevin -- the man who suspects Thomas is not his son, but loves him just the same -- and the neighboring home of Mary and Brian, where betrayal has not been so placidly accepted. The sons of these two households -- quiet, creative Thomas and angry, destructive Clive -- will cross paths in adolescence, their fates converging with mortal fury.
These characters' loves, their infidelities, their disappointments and their small comforts -- these, Tempest argues, are timeless. Our lives and our choices are no less important than those of history and myth. Awarded the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, Brand New Ancients insists on our importance as individuals -- and asserts Kate Tempest's importance as a talent impossible to ignore.
Author: Kate Tempest
ISBN-10: 1632862077
ISBN-13: 9781632862075
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2015
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.19d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2015 pg. 15
School Library Journal 12/01/2015 pg. 133
Yes, the gods are on the park bench, the gods are on the bus, /The gods are all here, the gods are in us. /The gods are timeless, fearless, fighting to be bold, /conviction is a heavy hand to hold, /grip it, winged sandals tearing up the pavement -- /you, me, everyone: Brand New Ancients.
Kate Tempest's words in Brand New Ancientsare written to be read aloud; the book combines poem, rap, and humanist sermon, by turns tender and fierce. Set in Southeast London, Brand New Ancientsfinds the mythic in the mundane. It is the story of two half-brothers, Thomas and Clive, unknown to each other -- Thomas the result of an affair between his mother and Clive's father. Tempest, with wide-ranging empathy, takes us inside the passionless marriage of Jane and Kevin -- the man who suspects Thomas is not his son, but loves him just the same -- and the neighboring home of Mary and Brian, where betrayal has not been so placidly accepted. The sons of these two households -- quiet, creative Thomas and angry, destructive Clive -- will cross paths in adolescence, their fates converging with mortal fury.
These characters' loves, their infidelities, their disappointments and their small comforts -- these, Tempest argues, are timeless. Our lives and our choices are no less important than those of history and myth. Awarded the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, Brand New Ancients insists on our importance as individuals -- and asserts Kate Tempest's importance as a talent impossible to ignore.
Author: Kate Tempest
ISBN-10: 1632862077
ISBN-13: 9781632862075
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2015
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.19d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2015 pg. 15
School Library Journal 12/01/2015 pg. 133
By Kate Tempest
xKae Tempest is a poet. They are also a writer, a lyricist, a performer and a recording artist. They have published plays, poems, a novel, a book length non-fiction essay, released albums and toured extensively, selling out shows from Reykjavik to Rio de Janeiro. 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. They were named a Next Generation Poet in 2014, a once in a decade accolade. They received the Ted Hughes Award for their longform narrative poem Brand New Ancients and the Leone D'Argento at the Venice Teatro Biennale for their work as a playwright. Their books have been translated into eleven languages and published to critical acclaim around the world. They were born in London in 1985 where they still live. They hope to continue putting words together for a long time.
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