Kate Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; her dramatic poem Brand New Ancients won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest's wholly...

FROM THE TED HUGHES AWARD WINNER AND SUNDAY TIMES-BESTSELLING AUTHORThe increasingly hyper-individualistic, competitive and exploitative society that we live in has caused a global crisis at the turn of the new decade; von Tempest, Kae

Kate 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...

Philoctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Stranded for ten years, he sees a chance of escape when a young solider appears with tales of Philoctetes' past glories. But with hope comes...

On Connection von Tempest, Kae

Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving London in a fourth-hand Ford with a suitcase full of stolen money, in a mess of tangled loyalties and impulses. But can they truly leave the city that's in their bones?Kate Tempest's novel reaches back...

From award-winning writer, spoken-word star, and spellbinding performer Kae Tempest, an unabashedly intimate poetry collection that confirms them as one of our most important poetic truth tellers."Running Upon the Wires is full body art,...

"Wasted" von Kate Tempest ist ein Theaterstück, das sich mit den Themen Jugend, Freundschaft und der Suche nach Sinn im Leben beschäftigt. Die Geschichte folgt drei Freunden – Ted, Danny und Charlotte –, die in ihrem Alltag gefangen sind...

Kae Tempest's powerful narrative poem--set to music on their album of the same title, shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize--illuminates the lives of a single city street, creating an electric, humming human symphony.Let Them Eat...

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...

Introducing the new poetry collection from Kae Tempest, Divisible by Itself and One. von Tempest, Kae