Divisible by Itself and One: Kae Tempest

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Taking its bearings - and title - from the prime number, Divisible by Itself and One is concerned, ultimately, with integrity: how to live in honest relationship with oneself and others. Stories of transformation hold a central place in Tempest's work, their best to date; here, the poet considers the changes that are sometimes required to be oneself.

Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest.Divisible by Itself and One is also a book about human form, the body as boundary and how we are read by the world. Stories of transformation hold a central place in Tempest’s work, their best to date; here, the poet considers the changes that are sometimes required to be oneself. Taking its bearings - and title - from the prime number, Divisible by Itself and One is concerned, ultimately, with integrity: how to live in honest relationship with oneself and others.

I think my favorites were "Mountain road at midnight, Crete" and "The loop", although there were quite a few that made me underline lines like crazy and subsequently lead me to stare at my bedroom ceiling for half an hour (which is my preferred outcome for reading poetry). The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory.

A new poetry collection from Britain's foremost truth-teller, in Divisible by Itself and One Kae Tempest masterfully steers a path between their more public-facing performance and dramatic work and the contemplative voice that came to the fore in Running Upon the Wires. Kae Tempest has changed their pronouns since I read their last collection, which I massively enjoyed. Infused with all of their rich lyrical skill and unforgettable imagery, Tempest's bravura collection mines themes of transformation, identity and reaction against conformity with unparalleled insight and verve.

There were some great and lovely poems in this collection and Tempest's rhythm and feeling for language is amazing. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation.Divisible by Itself and One is also a book about human form, the body as boundary and how we are read by the world.