A review by half_book_and_co
Running Upon The Wires by Kae Tempest

4.0

Kate Tempest is one of my favourite contemporary poets (and Hold Your Own one of my favourite poetry books). Thus my expectations were high. In the past Tempest took Greek myths, current political affairs and close observations of people to spin gripping tales. Running Upon The Wires is more inward orientated and personal. Each poem can be read separately but taken together they tell a story of Kate ending and grieving a relationship with one woman and slowly falling for another one, navigating this new relationship. But though the scope is quite different from earlier works, this poetry collection is great as well. Tempest's artful language makes it a beautiful, timely, at times humorous, and ultimately happy love story.

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The candlelight is small and strange
My face is in the windowpane
Outside the trees are wind-sung poems
The sky's a wound that shows the bone