{"product_id":"running-upon-the-wires","title":"Running Upon The Wires","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe leading poet of her generation returns with a deeply personal third collection, \u003ci\u003eRunning Upon The Wires\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhether on stage or on the page, her language hits like lightning. It illuminates and it burns\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRunning Upon The Wires\u003c\/i\u003e is Kate Tempest's first book of free-standing poetry since the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eHold Your Own.\u003c\/i\u003e In a beautifully varied series of formal poems, spoken songs, fragments, vignettes and ballads, Tempest charts the heartbreak at the end of one relationship and the joy at the beginning of a new love; but also tells us what happens in between, when the heart is pulled both ways at once.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRunning Upon The Wires \u003c\/i\u003eis, in a sense, a departure from her previous work, and unashamedly personal and intimate in its address but will also confirm Tempest's role as one of our most important poetic truth tellers: it will be no surprise to readers to discover that she's no less a direct and unflinching observer of matters of the heart than she is of social and political change. \u003ci\u003eRunning Upon The Wires\u003c\/i\u003e is a heartbreaking, moving and joyous book about love, in its endings and in its beginnings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn terms of visibility, Kate Tempest is currently way ahead of her performance-poet peers. Out on her own, she sounds like a woman who knows exactly what she's doing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the brightest British talents around. [Tempest's] spoken-word performances have the metre and craft of traditional poetry, the kinetic agitation of hip-hop and the intimacy of a whispered heart-to-heart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDazzling wordsmithery. . . As anyone who has seen her perform will know, she doesn't just paint pictures with words when she performs, she paints fireworks in the night sky\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50506827170123,"sku":"1044509","price":3.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/21317ff0-b57e-4789-a9ac-8ca7b53ba107_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727830983","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/running-upon-the-wires","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}