I want to sing you early songs. Go deeper. I want to take you back where you began Find
the scraps of you you hid in secret And bring them back to life beneath my tongue.
Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae
Tempest. Ruminative wise with a newer more contemplative and metaphysical note running
through it is a book engaged with the big questions and the emotional states in which we live
and create. Some of the poems experiment with form some are free and yet all are politically
and morally conscious. Divisible by Itself and One is also a book about human form the body as
boundary and how we are read by the world. 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. "Tempest delivers their thoughts gorgeously
rhythmically but also with clarity and a fierce grace" Observer
