BRAND NEW ANCIENTS

Kate Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years/ her dramatic poem Brand New Ancients won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempests wholly unique blend of street poet ry, rap and storytelling combined with the spellbinding delivery of an open-air revivalist has won her legions of followers all over the UK. Her remarkable stage presence is wholly audible in this poem, a spoken story written to be told with live music. Brand New Ancients ...[Read more]