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Everything Speaks in its Own Way
Join Kate Tempest and special guests for an exclusive evening of poetry and music as she launches her first full length poetry collection, Everything Speaks in its Own Way, at The Old Vic.
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 has worked with legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke and supported Billy Bragg on his Leftfield in Motion UK tour with her band Sound of Rum, whose debut album Balance came out in 2011 on Rob Da Bank's label, Sunday Best Recordings. 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 and toured the UK from March to May 2012.
This is the launch of my first full length poetry release, the book/cd/dvd package Everything Speaks in its Own Way. The night will be a celebration of the poets and musicians who have inspired me, with 'tribute' readings of poems I love, from Bukowski to Blake to WuTang, and performances from some my favourite artists and friends. I will be reading new poems from the book, and telling the older ones too. This will be the first comprehensive reading from Everything Speaks that I've ever done, and to be doing it at the Old Vic is incredible: A venue designed for words to be spoken and heard. This night will be the culmination of the last 5 years of me telling my poems, and is not to be missed.
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