The Slamming Wordplay of Poet and Rapper Kate Tempest
London-based Kate Tempest is a spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist and playwright. Her visceral writing demands foreground-listening with its physicality of emotions, spoken-sung, delivered as incantation, slammed poetry, swaggering rap verse, a bit tent preacher and protest march. Her work was nominated for the Mercury Prize, her epic narrative poem “Brand New Ancients” was awarded the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry and she won a Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in recent years. She's collaborated with The Comet Is Coming, Sinead O'Connor, Bastille, and her own band, the Sound of Rum. Next Generation Poet Kate Tempest performs some of the pieces from her latest album, The Book Of Traps And Lessons, in-studio. - Caryn Havlik
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