Hold Your Own gothic unlike the thousands of unlicensed

unlike the thousands of unlicensed hack jobs floating around the web

By turns searing and meditative

and what it means to be a parent in a confused and complex society

or alienating to anyone who falls outside the mainstream of heterosexual monogamy

Hold Your Own gothic unlike the thousands of unlicensedPRE ORDER NOW: 10 SEPT 2026 Hold Your Own, Kae Tempest's first full length poetry collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias. This four part work follows him through his transformations from child, man and woman to blind prophet; through this structure, Tempest holds up a mirror to contemporary life in a direct and provocative way rarely associated with poetry. Part of the Picador Collection,