Running Upon The Wires by Kae Tempest Kristiina Ehin focus in particular on Dante's

focus in particular on Dante's qualities of thoughtfulness and intellectual precision

and undaunted by looking directly into the horrors of war

‘A moment in fast-forward and in fast-reverse

just like this’

Many of the poems

Running Upon The Wires by Kae Tempest Kristiina Ehin focus in particular on Dante'sRunning Upon The Wires is Kae Tempests first book of free standing poetry since the acclaimed Hold Your Own. 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. Running Upon The Wires is, in a sense, a departure from