Kae Tempest

Rothko Taylor has washed up with the tide, back in their hometown, Edgecliff. Fifteen years since they left it behind. The past is accelerating towards them: the skateboard kids on the high street that remind them of their teenage years, the splintered benches looking out to sea, where their mum Meg clutched her cans. The nice bit of town, where their dad Ezra tried and failed to build a happy home. And Dionne's block. Beautiful, extraordinary Dionne, the only person who had ever looked at them and seen what was there. Back then, overwhelmed and full of fear, they sank beneath the surface into chaos. But they made it out alive. And this time, Rothko is determined that things will be different. A decade since Kae Tempest's last novel, Having Spent Life Seeking is about family and forgiveness; redemption and atonement; desire and abandon; selfhood and community. This book is about things we seek when we are hiding, and what finds us, if we can let ourselves be seen.

'Amazing, it really moved me... Not something I've encountered in British literary fiction before' SHON FAYE'If books can still change the world, this one most likely will' COLUM MCCANN'A scorching story of love, change, homecoming and forgiveness' DAWN FRENCHRothko Taylor has washed up with the tide, back in their hometown, Edgecliff. Fifteen years since they left it behind. The past is accelerating towards them: the skateboard kids on the high street that remind them of their teenage years, the splintered benches looking out to sea, where their mum Meg clutched her cans. The nice bit of town, where their dad Ezra tried and failed to build a happy home. And Dionne's block. Beautiful, extraordinary Dionne, the only person who had ever looked at them and seen what was there. Back then, overwhelmed and full of fear, they sank beneath the surface into chaos. But they made it out alive. And this time, Rothko is determined that things will be different. A decade since Kae Tempest's last novel, Having Spent Life Seeking is about family and forgiveness; redemption and atonement; desire and abandon; selfhood and community. This book is about things we seek when we are hiding, and what finds us, if we can let ourselves be seen. 'A wonderful, moving and enlightening state-of-Britain novel' IRVINE WELSH'A master-craftsman of deep feeling and linguistic intimacy' MAX PORTER'Kae Tempest at his finest' ANTHONY SHAPLAND'Unboundedly beautiful' MICHAEL PEDERSEN

Piaty štúdiový album »Self Titled« je doteraz Kaeov najintímnejší a najodhaľujúci album. »Self Titled« nielenže skúma, kto je Kae ako umelec, ale ukazuje Kae aj ako osobu. Je to odvážne, zábavné a dojemné. Vo svojom jadre je „Self Titled“ milostný list mladšiemu ja Tempest – rozhovor naprieč časom, informovaný ľuďmi, miestami a skúsenosťami, ktoré definujú Kae. Medzi funkcie patrí Neil Tennant, Young Fathers, Connie Constance a Tawiah. Tracklist: A1. I Stand On The Line A2. Statue In The Square A3. Know Yourself A4. Sunshine On Catford A5. Bless The Bold Future A6. Everything All Together A7. Prayers To Whisper B1. Diagnoses B2. Hyperdistillation B3. Forever B4. Breathe B5. Till Morning

Piaty štúdiový album »Self Titled« je doteraz Kaeov najintímnejší a najodhaľujúci album. »Self Titled« nielenže skúma, kto je Kae ako umelec, ale ukazuje Kae aj ako osobu. Je to odvážne, zábavné a dojemné. Vo svojom jadre je „Self Titled“ milostný list mladšiemu ja Tempest – rozhovor naprieč časom, informovaný ľuďmi, miestami a skúsenosťami, ktoré definujú Kae. Medzi funkcie patrí Neil Tennant, Young Fathers, Connie Constance a Tawiah. Tracklist: 01. I Stand On The Line 02. Statue In The Square 03. Know Yourself 04. Sunshine On Catford 05. Bless The Bold Future 06. Everything All Together 07. Prayers To Whisper 08. Diagnoses 09. Hyperdistillation 10. Forever 11. Breathe 12. Till Morning

I want to sing you early songs. Go deeper. I want to take you back where you began, Find the scraps of you you hid in secret And bring them back to life beneath my tongue. Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest. Ruminative, wise, with a newer, more contemplative and metaphysical note running through, it is a book engaged with the big questions and the emotional states in which we live and create. Some of the poems experiment with form, some are free, and yet all are politically and morally conscious. Divisible by Itself and One is also a book about human form, the body as boundary and how we are read by the world. Taking its bearings - and title - from the prime number, Divisible by Itself and One is concerned, ultimately, with integrity: how to live in honest relationship with oneself and others.

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.