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Kate Tempest

    22 december 1985

    Kae Tempest is een multidisciplinaire artiest die bekend staat om hun impactvolle werk op het gebied van rappen, toneelschrijven, proza en poëzie. Hun schrijven duikt met rauwe eerlijkheid diep in de menselijke ervaring, waarbij thema's als identiteit, maatschappij en de zoektocht naar betekenis in het hedendaagse leven worden onderzocht. Tempest's stijl wordt gekenmerkt door een energiek en poëtisch ritme, waarbij vaak de klank en cadans van taal worden gebruikt om een krachtige emotionele resonantie voor de lezer of luisteraar te creëren. Ze hebben een uitgesproken stem die de urgentie en complexiteit van de moderne wereld vastlegt.

    Hold your own
    On Connestion
    Brand New Ancients
    Let Them Eat Chaos
    Paradise
    De stenen die de huizen bouwen
    • Divisible by Itself and One

      • 54bladzijden
      • 2 uur lezen

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

      Divisible by Itself and One2023
      4,1
    • Paradise

      • 80bladzijden
      • 3 uur lezen

      Lyricist, novelist, poet and playwright Kate Tempest makes her National Theatre debut with 'Paradise', a potent and dynamic reimagining of the Greek classic 'Philoctetes' by Sophocles. Once comrades, now enemies after Odysseus abandoned Philoctetes to suffer a terrible wound alone, Odysseus is prepared to use any means necessary to get the shell-shocked Philoctetes back to the front and win the Trojan war.

      Paradise2021
      4,4
    • Staggering talent Kae Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a meditation on the power of creative connection. Beneath the surface we are all connected . . . This is a meditation on the power of creative connection. Drawing on twenty years' experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest explores how and why creativity - however we choose to practise it - can cultivate greater self-awareness and help us establish a deeper relationship to ourselves and the world. Honest, tender and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth.

      Verbundensein2021
      4,1
    • Edition Suhrkamp: Running Upon The Wires / Vibrationen

      Gedichte. Englisch und Deutsch

      • 120bladzijden
      • 5 uur lezen

      From award-winning poet, novelist, playwright, rapper, and recording artist Kate Tempest, an unabashedly intimate poetry collection that confirms her as one of our most important poetic truth-tellers. My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. (James Joyce, Dubliners) Award-winning writer, spoken-word star, and spellbinding performer Kate Tempest's raw and exhilarating new collection is a heart-breaking, moving, and joyous book about the experience of love in its endings and beginnings. In a sense a departure from her previous work, Running Upon the Wires charts the dissolution of one relationship, the budding of another, and what happens in between, when the heart is pulled both ways at once. It's about joy and despair, confusion and clarity, self-destruction and revival. And it will come as no surprise to readers that Tempest is as direct, distinctive, and unflinching an observer of matters of the heart as she is of social and political change. Calling in its title upon the classical poet's harp, the technological wires of communication, and the neural wires of feeling, Tempest's electrifying new verse weaves interpersonal struggle into a powerfully cathartic and memorable work of art. Explosively lyrical, rhythmic, and throbbing with feeling, this collection is frayed yet powerful in its pain, determined to speak and to find love in a human community of “terrifying beauty.”

      Edition Suhrkamp: Running Upon The Wires / Vibrationen2020
      4,1
    • This is a meditation on the power of creative connection. Drawing on twenty years' experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest explores how and why creativity - however we choose to practise it - can cultivate greater self-awareness and help us establish a deeper relationship between ourselves and the world. -- Dust jacket

      On Connestion2020
      4,2
    • Running upon the wires

      • 64bladzijden
      • 3 uur lezen

      Running Upon The Wires is Kate Tempest's first book of free-standing poetry since the acclaimed Hold Your Own. In a beautifully varied series of formal poems, spoken songs, fragments, vignettes and ballads, Tempest charts the heartbreak at the end of one relationship and the joy at the beginning of a new love; but she also tells us what happens in between, when the heart is pulled both ways at once. Running Upon The Wires is a departure from Tempest's previous work, and unashamedly personal and intimate in its address - but will also confirm Tempest's role as one of our most important poetic truth-tellers: it will be no surprise to readers to discover that she is no less a direct and unflinching observer of matters of the heart than she is of social and political change. Running Upon The Wires is a heartbreaking, moving and joyous book about love, in its endings and in its beginnings. 'Whether on stage or on the page, her language hits like lightning. It illuminates and it burns.' Guardian

      Running upon the wires2018
      3,9
    • Let Them Eat Chaos

      • 71bladzijden
      • 3 uur lezen

      Kae Tempest's powerful narrative poem--set to music on their album of the same title, s hortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize --illuminates the lives of a single city street, creating an electric, humming human symphony.Let Them Eat Chaos, Kae Tempest’s long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbors inhabit the same London street, but are all unknown to each other. The clock freezes in the small hours, and one by one we see directly into their lives that are damaged, disenfranchised, lonely, broken, addicted, and all, apparently, without hope. Then a great storm breaks over London, and brings them out into the night to face each other, giving them one last chance to connect.Tempest argues that our alienation from one another has bred a terrible indifference to our own fate, but counters this with a plea to challenge the forces of greed which have conspired to divide us, and mend the broken home of our own planet while we still have time. Let Them Eat Chaos is a cri de cœur, a call to action, and a powerful poetic statement.

      Let Them Eat Chaos2016
      4,4
    • De stenen die de huizen bouwen

      • 336bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      De debuutroman van bekroonde dichter en succesvolle rapper Kate Tempest De jonge Londenaren Becky, Harry en Leon verlaten de stad in een vierdehands Ford Cortina met een koffer vol gestolen geld. Pete, Becky’s vriendje, laten ze ook achter, op de avond van zijn surpriseparty. In De stenen die de huizen bouwen laat Kate Tempest je het hedendaagse leven in rauw Londen verkennen, bekeken door een haarscherpe morele microscoop. Ze neemt je mee naar de huizen en harten van gewone mensen en hun families en laat je op die manier momenten van schoonheid, teleurstelling, ambitie en mislukking zien. En ze laat zien: goede bedoelingen leiden niet altijd tot goede beslissingen.

      De stenen die de huizen bouwen2016
      3,8
    • Hopelessly Devoted

      • 68bladzijden
      • 3 uur lezen

      First performance at the Orange Tree Theatre on 12 November 2014--Page facing colophon.

      Hopelessly Devoted2014
      3,9
    • Kae Tempest's first full-length 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. A vastly popular and accomplished performance poet, Tempest commands a huge and dedicated following on the performance and rap circuit. Brand New Ancients, also available from Picador, won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry and has played to packed concert halls on both sides of the Atlantic.

      Hold your own2014
      4,2