Kate Tempest

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• Mercury nominees 2014: Kate Tempest

  22 Oct 2014: Tempest has awards for her poetry but with hip-hop album Everybody Down she has moved towards the mainstream – and the Mercury judges love a female MC …
  

• The Essay: Trip Sheets; Afternoon Drama: The Electrical Venus; Between the Ears: More Than a Desert – radio review

  5 Oct 2014: From New York stories to electric kisses, the pictures are always better on radio, writes Miranda Sawyer

• Kate Tempest: 'Rapping changed my life'

  4 Oct 2014:

  The books interview: She is a Next Generation poet, has been Mercury-nominated for her music and called the laureate of south-east London for her plays. Kate Tempest talks to Nicholas Wroe about going down a storm

• Kate Tempest: a winning wielder of words

  14 Sep 2014: Profile: The rapper-cum-poet has achieved an unprecedented double: nominated for the Mercury prize and acclaimed by an august poetry society. Not bad for a woman who used to 'rap at riot cops'

• Poet, performer, novelist: the rise of the uncategorisable Kate Tempest

  12 Sep 2014:

  Mercury nomination and place on prestigious list of poets are well-deserved accolades for bright young performer

• Literary prodigies - make a start on our quiz

  Quiz, 12 Sep 2014:

  Poetry's 'Next Generation' has just been announced – a good moment to find out if you're a rising star or an old hand with our quiz on bookish early achievers

• Mercury prize 2014 ignores big stars in favour of FKA Twigs, Young Fathers and East India Youth

  11 Sep 2014: The only big names on this year’s shortlist are Damon Albarn and Bombay Bicycle Club, with seven debuts and three jazz artists making up a relatively obscure list of nominations

• ‘Next Generation’ of 20 hotly-tipped poets announced by Poetry Book Society

  11 Sep 2014: Women ‘lead charge’ of new authors predicted for great things in the coming years

• Kate Tempest review – performance poet returns to her rap roots

  

  22 May 2014: Tempest tells tales of the drug deals and despair of inner-city life, but it's her infectious delight that makes this show special, writes Betty Clarke

• Five albums to try this week

  19 May 2014: From Kate Tempest's poetic hip-hop to Conor Oberst’s latest poppy Americana offering, here are five new albums to consider

• Everybody Down review – urgent hip-hop from acclaimed poet Kate Tempest

  

  18 May 2014: Last year's winner of the Ted Hughes award for poetry is equally adept at hip-hop, writes Kitty Empire

• Kate Tempest: Everybody Down review – hip-hop poet dazzles with language

  

  15 May 2014:

  The poet's jump off into rap and hip-hop isn't for everybody – but this is a dazzling debut, writes Tim Jonze

• On my radar: Indhu Rubasingham's cultural highlights

  20 Apr 2014:

  The theatre director talks to Leah Harper about working with Mike Leigh, the flamboyant fashions of Jean Paul Gaultier and why Kate Tempest is unique

• Kate Tempest – The Beigeness: New music

  7 Apr 2014:

  Award-winning poet Kate Tempest has made an album, or 'novel rhyme'. Here's the first chapter

• Homeless theatre: how to engage hard-to-reach audiences

  Guardian Professional, 27 Feb 2014:

  How do you engage a homeless audience? For Cardboard Citizens theatre company it's about relevance, empathy and not being social agents

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