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Hold Your Own
By Kate Tempest
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By Kate Tempest
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From playwright, novelist, spoken-word star, and the youngest-ever winner of the Ted Hughes Award, an electrifying poem-sequence based on the myth of the gender-switching prophet Tiresias.
My heart throws its head against my ribs, / it's denting every bone it's venting something it has known since I arrived and felt it beat.
Walking in the forest one morning, a young man disturbs two copulating snakesand is punished by the goddess Hera, who turns him into a woman. So begins Hold Your Own, a ...