Hold Your Own book-new-arrivals-2025-04-23 The importance of knowledge

The importance of knowledge

luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety

encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope

and The Seagull contrasts a young man's selfish romanticism with the stoicism of a woman cruelly abandoned by her lover

by the bestselling author of The Road Home

Hold Your Own book-new-arrivals-2025-04-23 The importance of knowledgeKate Tempest, winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for Brand New Ancients and widely regarded as the UK's leading spoken word poet, has produced a new poem sequence of electrifying power. Based on the myth of the blind prophet Tiresias, Hold Your Own is a riveting tale of youth and experience, sex and love, wealth and poverty, community and alienation. Walking in the forest one morning, a young man disturbs two copulating snakes and is punished by the