Kae Tempest

Beneath the surface we are all connected . . . 'An authentically soothing, powerful, thought provoker.' MATT HAIG 'On Connection is soul work ... The truth-speaker Kae Tempest takes to non-fiction with grace, musicality and innate essayistic skill. The book glows with their trademark honesty and questing integrity. On Connection is medicine for these wounded times.' MAX PORTER 'On Connection came to me when I needed it most, and reminded me that the links we have to places, people, words, ourselves, are what keep us alive.' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS Drawing on twenty years' experience as a writer and performer, award-winning poet, rapper and storyteller 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. Personal, hopeful and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a meditation on creative connection and call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth

On Connection

The highly anticipated debut novel from Kate Tempest--acclaimed poet, playwright, rapper, and recording artist--proves her talent to be boundless and unstoppable.

The Bricks that Built the Houses

Staggering talent Kate Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a hopeful theory of creativity - the power of creative connection to act as the antidote to numbness. The increasingly hyper-individualistic, competitive and exploitative society that we live in has caused a global crisis at the turn of the new decade; in order to survive, numbness has pervaded us all. In her urgent and incisive nonfiction debut, Kate Tempest leads the reckoning against this system, placing our legacy in our own hands. Creativity holds the key: the ability to provide us with internal and external connection, to move us beyond consumption, to allow us to discover authenticity and closeness to all others, to deliver us an antidote for our numbness. This is beyond "art". Creative connection is anything that brings us closer to ourselves and fellow human beings, and it has the potential to offer insights into mental health, politics and beyond. Powerful, hopeful and full of humanity, this new book confirms Tempest as one of the most important voices of her generation.

UNTITLED PAMPHLET

Divisible by Itself and One

Mary Jean Chan

Carol Ann Duffy

Andrew McMillan

Ocean Vuong

100 Queer Poems

"Este libro habla de la conexión. De cómo la inmersión en la creatividad puede unirnos y ayudarnos a cultivar una mayor conciencia de nosotres mismes. De cómo afinar nuestra capacidad de conectar de manera creativa puede ayudarnos a desarrollar la empatía y establecer una relación más profunda entre nosotres y el mundo." Hay muchas formas de apearse del ritmo desenfrenado y la insensibilidad a los que nos aboca nuestro estilo de vida, con su cóctel destructivo de enajenación e individualismo exacerbado; para Tempest, las herramientas más adecuadas a este fin son sin duda la música y la literatura, en tanto que fuerzas transformadoras que nos permiten empatizar con otras personas, descender a lo que Jung llama «el espíritu de la profundidad» y, así, hacer de este mundo un lugar más humano.

Conexión

Este libro habla de la conexión. De cómo la inmersión en la creatividad puede unirnos y ayudarnos a cultivar una mayor consciencia de nosotres mismes. De cómo afinar nuestra capacidad de conectar de manera creativa puede ayudarnos a desarrollar la empatía y establecer una relación más profunda entre nosotres y el mundo.

Etreins-toi

‘Tempest has a gift for shattering and transcending convention.’ New York Times 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 soldier appears with tales of Philoctetes’ past glories. But with hope comes suspicion – and, as an old enemy emerges, he is faced with an even greater temptation: revenge. Kae Tempest is now widely acknowledged as a revolutionary force in contemporary British poetry, music and drama; they continue to expand the range of their work with a new version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes in a bold new translation. Like Brand New Ancients before it, Paradise shows Tempest’s gift for lending the old tales an immediate contemporary relevance – and will find this timeless story a wide new audience.

Paradise

Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, it's time to seize control. Make a difference. Change things. This is it. A day trip through the parks and raves and cafes of South London, where life is what you make it. The rapid-fire words of Kate Tempest paint a picture of lives less ordinary in an unforgiving world, soundtracked by an exhilarating score. A play about love, life and losing your mind, Wasted heralded the dramatic career of one of the UK's most exciting performance poets, Kate Tempest. It was originally produced by Paines Plough and is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition alongside commentary and notes by Katie Beswick, lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter. The ancillary material is geared at students and includes: - an introduction outlining the play's plot, character, themes context and performance history - the full text of the play - a chronology of the playwright's life and work - extensive textual notes

Wasted

I'm making a decision. I'm changing things. This is it. Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, it's time to seize control. Make a difference. Change things. This is it. A day trip through the parks and raves and cafes of South London, where life is what you make it. The rapid fire words of Kate Tempest paint a picture of lives less ordinary in an unforgiving world, sound-tracked by an exhilarating score. The drama mixes rap-style poetry delivered with microphones and self-reflexive addresses to the audience. A play about love, life and losing your mind, and the first play from one of the UK's most exciting performance poets, Kate Tempest.

The highly anticipated debut novel from Kae Tempest--acclaimed poet, playwright, rapper, and recording artist--proves their talent to be boundless and unstoppable. 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? Kae Tempest's novel reaches back through time--through tensely quiet dining rooms and crassly loud clubs--to the first time Becky and Harry meet. It sprawls through their lives and those they touch--of their families and friends and faces on the street--revealing intimacies and the moments that make them. And it captures the contemporary struggle of urban life, of young people seeking jobs or juggling jobs, harboring ambitions and making compromises. The Bricks that Built the Houses is an unexpected love story. It's about being young, but being part of something old. It's about how we become ourselves, and how we effect our futures. Rich in character and restless in perspective, driven by ethics and empathy, it asks--and seeks to answer--how best to live with and love one another. Kae Tempest, a major talent in the poetry and music worlds, sits poised to become a major novelist as well.

The Sunday Times Bestseller

Un arpeggio sulle corde è la prima raccolta di poesie che Kae Tempest ha pubblicato dopo il successo ottenuto con Resta te stessa. In una serie di poesie, rap, frammenti e schizzi squisitamente modulati, Tempest descrive il crepacuore connesso con la fine di un rapporto e la gioia che circonda l’inizio di un nuovo amore; ma ci racconta anche quello che succede nel mezzo di questo processo, quando il cuore è tirato da tutte le parti. Un arpeggio sulle corde segna uno stacco netto dalle opere precedenti di Kae Tempest e si presenta in maniera intima e senza falsi pudori – ma conferma anche il ruolo di Tempest come una delle più importanti e veritiere voci poetiche contemporanee: i lettori non saranno sorpresi di ritrovare nelle questioni di cuore la stessa franca e risoluta capacità di osservazione riservata ai mutamenti politici e sociali. Un arpeggio sulle corde è un libro appassionato, commovente e gioioso sull’amore, sulla sua fine e sul suo inizio.

Running Upon the Wires / Un arpeggio sulle corde

Running upon the wires-Un arpeggio sulle corde. Testo inglese a fronte

Kate Tempest

Das Ende, die Mitte, der Anfang – in drei Teilen erzählt Kate Tempest in ihrem bisher persönlichsten Buch vom Verlassenwerden, von der Trauer und dem Beginn einer neuen Liebe. Vom rohen Begehren, das in Gewalt umschlägt, von der Verwundbarkeit, wenn man liebt. In den unverfroren intimen Gedichten, Liedern und Fragmenten der Sammlung erweist sie sich als ebenso kühne Beobachterin des menschlichen Herzens wie des sozialen und politischen Wandels und macht vor, was es heißt, »anders, offener, neuer mit dem Zusammenleben umzugehen« (Frankfurter Rundschau). Radikal ehrlich, radikal verletzlich.

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