Kate Tempest’s Let Them Eat Chaos, which is both an album and a book of verse, has been shortlisted for the £5,000 Costa poetry award. Let Them Eat Chaos is a long narrative poem that Tempest recently performed on BBC2. Also on the all-female Costa poetry shortlist are Melissa Lee-Houghton (Sunshine); Alice Oswald (Falling Awake); and Denise Riley (Say Something Back). Lee-Houghton, Oswald and Riley were all on this year’s Forward prize shortlists, and Oswald and Riley are also on the current TS Eliot Prize shortlist. The Costa winners will be announced on 3 January 2017.