Let Them Eat Chaos by Kae Tempest Michael Longley As well as selecting favourite

As well as selecting favourite poems from the trilogy – readers’ and writers’ choices as well as his own favourites – editor Neil Astley provides background notes on the poets and poems

recounted in calypso-inspired rhythms

The Other City is her debut collection of poems

'Her rhymes have a driving quality

Let Them Eat Chaos by Kae Tempest Michael Longley As well as selecting favouriteLet 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