Let Them Eat Chaos by Kae Tempest Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 their pleasure: clubs

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What It’s Like to Be Alive: Selected Poems

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Let Them Eat Chaos by Kae Tempest Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 their pleasure: clubsLet 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