Everything Speaks In Its Own Way' - Kate Tempest - Book Launch

Everything Speaks in its Own Way is the first poetry collection from poet, rapper and playwright Kate Tempest. It is a beautifully designed book of poetry, that comes with a CD and DVD of live performance.

Kate will launch this book at a one off event on August 23rd at London's prestigious Old Vic theatre, with support from some of the most exciting spoken word artists around, including Polar Bear, David J, Hollie Mcnish, John Berkavitch and Zia Ahmed and with music from Kwake Bass and Raven Bush, two quarters of the amazing Speakers Corner Quartet

Kate Tempest is a writer. She writes rhymes, lyrics, poems, prose and plays. She began at 16, rapping in battles across London, and began performing spoken word at 21. She has written poems for Barnado's, the BBC, Amnesty International, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Turner Prize winning artist Chris Offili. She is two times poetry slam winner at the prestigious Nu-Yorican poetry cafe in New York.

She worked with legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke, supported Femi Kuti, and more recently Billy Bragg on his 'Leftfield in Motion UK' tour with her band Sound of Rum. Their debut album, Balance, came out in 2011 on Rob Da Bank's, Sunday Best Recordings and was nominated for an XFM New Music Award. She has taught workshops in writing and performance to students in comprehensive secondary schools all over London and also to students at Yale University. Her first play Wasted was commissioned by Paines Plough, touring the UK earlier this year picking up the accolade of Time Out Critics' choice

What the critics are saying:
‘Wow’ - Chuck D
“Her works are truly of upliftment and betterment” - Roots Manuva
‘Electrifying’ - The Telegraph
‘Tempest’s is a talent to be harnessed, a welcome shot in drama’s arm’ - The Evening Standard
‘Punchy, poignant and perceptive.’ - The Stage
‘Tempest’s writing oscillates between dynamic poetry that’s full of vividly phrased observations
and dialogue that‘s just as spot on… ingenious.’ - The Guardian