Let Them Eat Chaos by Kae Tempest Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 'The craft'

'The craft'

Longley has been exploring Lochalsh in the Western Highlands where his daughter the painter Sarah Longley now lives with her family

their pleasure: clubs

conviction

Moving from the melodic to the political

Let Them Eat Chaos by Kae Tempest Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 'The craft'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