Kae Tempest

Brand New Ancients is the tale of two families and their intertwining lives, set against the background of the city and braided with classical myth. Here, Tempest shows how the old myths still live on in our everyday acts of violence, bravery, sacrifice and love – and that our lives make tales no less dramatic and powerful than those of the old gods.

«Ya no quiero cambiar las opiniones de nadie. Sólo quiero conectar», nos dice Kae Tempest, una de las figuras más destacadas del rap en la actualidad, en este libro lleno de urgencia, sabiduría y belleza. 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.

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 Your Own is a riveting tale of youth and experience, sex and love, wealth and poverty, community and alienation. Walking in the forest one morning, a young man disturbs two copulating snakes - and is punished by the goddess Hera, who turns him into a woman. This is only the beginning of his journey . . . Weaving elements of classical myth, autobiography and social commentary, Tempest uses the story of the gender-switching, clairvoyant Tiresias to create four sequences of poems: 'childhood', 'manhood', 'womanhood' and 'blind profit'. The result is a rhythmically hypnotic tour de force - and a hugely ambitious leap forward for one of the UK's most talented and compelling young writers.

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.

Beneath the surface we are all connected . . .This is a book about connection. About how immersing ourselves in creativity can help us cultivate greater self-awareness and bring us closer to each other.Drawing on two decades of experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest champions the role of creativity - in whatever form we choose to practice it - as an act of love, helping us establish a deeper relationship to our true selves, and to others and the world we live in.Honest, hopeful and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is an inspiring personal meditation that will transform the way you see the world.

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’ shoes Tempest’s gift for lending the old tales an immediate, contemporary relevance — we will find this timeless story a wide new audience.

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.

Becky stammt aus schwierigen Verhältnissen, kellnert, wrestelt und massiert. Sie trifft Harry – und verliebt sich in seinen Bruder. Und dann doch in ihn. Harry ist auf der Flucht, landet mit Becky in Berlin. Geld haben sie genug, leben einen Traum. Sorglosigkeit legt sich wie eine schwere Decke über sie, macht aus Leichtigkeit Lethargie. Gehen oder Bleiben, zusammen sein oder trennen? Kate Tempest erzählt die Geschichte von Becky und Harry voller Wahrheit, Wärme und Schmerz – jede Liebe ist groß, weil wir es so wollen. Do you want heartbreak or hardcore?