Kae Tempest

Sep 27, 2024 | visitbrighton.com | Kae Tempest

About British rapper and spoken word artist Kae Tempest has announced that she will be performing in Norwich this December following shows across the globe. Tempest is known for her narrative poem ‘Brand New Ancients’, which saw her perform a sell-out run in New York and the UK as well as her most recent poetry collection ‘Hold Your Own’. Her debut solo album, ‘Everybody Down’ was released in 2014, with her debut novel ‘The Bricks that Built the House’ coming out earlier this year.

Jul 29, 2024 | countryandtownhouse.com | Kae Tempest |Olivia Emily

The UK and Ireland's only dedicated prize for LGBTQ+ literature has announced its 2024 longlists: the Polari Book Prize, the Polari First Book Prize and the bi-annual Polari Children's & YA Prize. Not limited by genre or form, the Polari prize commends the year's best fiction, memoir, poetry, translation and more. Here's who made the longlist this year.

Mar 15, 2024 | theguardian.com | Kae Tempest

My earliest reading memoryI was on the tube with my siblings when I was around seven. I was reading Sue Townsend’s The Queen and I, which is about the royal family relocating to a council estate. We had to change trains, but I was so absorbed, I only realised as the doors closed that my siblings were shouting at me from the platform and I was going on without them. My favourite book growing upUrsula K Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy.

Dec 7, 2023 | theguardian.com | Michael Rosen |Kae Tempest |Carol Ann Duffy |Joseph Coelho |colin grant |Diane Abbott | +1 more

Michael Rosen. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The ObserverMichael Rosen: ‘He nudged people into seeing the world through the eyes of the oppressed’British author and poetBenjamin was a hero to millions of people all over the world. His mix of poetry, novels, wisdom, humour and sheer presence grabbed us and delighted us. I first saw him when he was starting out in the poetry clubs, dancing a poem about his mother, voicing his poetry in a voice I hadn’t heard before: Brummie-Caribbean.

Nov 16, 2023 | vogue.co.uk | Kae Tempest

TraditionBackwards into promises made of what the future was. Tempted by a fantasy that leant it all some meaning. Remember when a life could be a life and not a screening,And things, cue the strings, were either true or not? Forwards into yesterday, desperate for a clammy threadHeld against the avalanche of what we can’t compute. Watching life play with the sound on muteSo we can hear ourselves posting what we think about instead. The whole thing’s performance art, right? I give it five stars.