Kae Tempest

On Connection by Kae Tempest review – persuasive and profound
The poet and musician’s essay on our need to combat alienation through creativity is refreshing
Holly Williams
25, Oct, 2020 @11:00 AM

Kae Tempest publishes first book since revealing they are non-binary
On Connection, which draws on their life struggles and creative joys, was written ‘for others who don’t fit’
Alison Flood
05, Oct, 2020 @9:18 AM

Kae Tempest: what I have learned from 20 years on the mic
The poet and musician reflects on the alchemy between artist and audience – and how storytelling unites a room
Kae Tempest
03, Oct, 2020 @7:00 AM

Top 10 verse novels | Sarah Crossan
From Homer’s classical epic to Kae Tempest’s mythic struggles in modern London, these books show that poetry can be more immediate than prose
Sarah Crossan
30, Sep, 2020 @12:00 PM

Cummings’ phone and lockdown row | Brief letters
Brief letters: Dominic Cummings | Singular verb | Shared dream | Typical reader | Early starter | Speed learning | Portillo’s pants
Letters
09, Aug, 2020 @4:56 PM

Kate Tempest announces they are non-binary, changes name to Kae
Performance poet, writer and musician said they had previously ‘tried to be what I thought others wanted me to be so as not to risk rejection’
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
06, Aug, 2020 @4:37 PM

Ivor Novello awards 2020: Dave, Kate Tempest and Stormzy among nominees
Behind-the-scenes talents Dan Carey, Jimmy Napes and Jamie Hartman join Kate Tempest with a pair of nominations each in UK songwriting awards
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
19, Jul, 2020 @11:01 PM

Star debuts and happy returns: theatre, dance and comedy in 2020
Tom Stoppard gets personal, Cush Jumbo does Hamlet, Hollywood names bring everything from tragedy to comedy … plus dance confronts shame and there’s standup open heart surgery
Arifa Akbar, Lyndsey Winship and Brian Logan
02, Jan, 2020 @9:00 AM

The 50 best theatre shows of the 21st century
A hip-hop history lesson, a dizzy Dahl musical and a continent-hopping barbershop … we pick the finest new works of theatre since 2000
Michael Billington, Alexis Soloski, Catherine Love, Mark Fisher and Chris Wiegand
17, Sep, 2019 @2:43 PM

Kate Tempest review – this isn't a gig, it's a reckoning
The performance poet absorbs all of the uncertainty and anger of our times, and pours it into ferocious, apocalyptic music that both wounds and heals
Kate Wyver
10, Aug, 2019 @1:00 PM

Kate Tempest: The Book of Traps and Lessons review – personal and optimistic
(Fiction)
Phil Mongredien
16, Jun, 2019 @7:00 AM

Kate Tempest: The Book of Traps and Lessons review – living poetry amid the chaos of 2019
Producer Rick Rubin has pared back the effects, giving Tempest’s songs about trying to love and dance through our current crises room to reach out
Aimee Cliff
14, Jun, 2019 @8:30 AM
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