and Beatrix Potter’s bed – a rich swell of voices with an irresistible and peculiar power
a list of flowers is not really a list of flowers
The Other City is her debut collection of poems
As The Book of Tides unfolds
these poems are alive with surprising moments
Let Them Eat Chaos by Kae Tempest Michael Longley and Beatrix Potter’s bed –Let 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