They received Mercury Music Prize nominations for both of the albums Everybody Down and Let Them Eat Chaos , and two Ivor Novello nominations for their song-writing on The Book of Traps and Lessons .

The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and. I seen them perform some of these poems in person this week and if you have the chance to do the same I can’t recommend enough. Kae Tempest (pronouns: they/them) started out when they were 16, rapping at strangers on night buses and pestering MCs to let them on the mic at raves. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.kae has such a kind and humble writing that digs all of our hidden parts the feelings we reject the face we see in the mirror. For now it feels like a process of reaching a sense of identification and acceptance through an undoing and a letting go. A new poetry collection from Britain's foremost truth-teller, in Divisible by Itself and One Kae Tempest masterfully steers a path between their more public-facing performance and dramatic work and the contemplative voice that came to the fore in Running Upon the Wires. Even in cases where the poem itself didn't touch me as much as others, it still had a melodic flow that made it very enjoyable to read. There were some great and lovely poems in this collection and Tempest's rhythm and feeling for language is amazing.

Stories of transformation hold a central place in Tempest's work, their best to date; here, the poet considers the changes that are sometimes required to be oneself. Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest. Divisible by Itself and One is also a book about human form, the body as boundary and how we are read by the world.

They have published plays, poems, a novel, a book-length essay, released albums and toured extensively, selling out shows from Reykjavik to Rio de Janeiro. Their books have been translated into eleven languages and published to critical acclaim around the world. Brand New Ancients", their self-performed epic poem to a live score, won the Ted Hughes Award 2012 and the Herald Angel at Edinburgh Fringe.

Stories of transformation hold a central place in Tempest’s work, their best to date; here, the poet considers the changes that are sometimes required to be oneself. Kae Tempest has changed their pronouns since I read their last collection, which I massively enjoyed. As always with poetry, some just resonated with me more than others and I can't exactly pinpoint why. The Loop" was the standout, and the final poem, a "Love Song" dedicated to the LGBT+ community was a powerful and beautiful way to close the collection.I read Kae Tempest 's novel The Bricks That Built the Houses a while ago and it is still up there with my favourites. Infused with all of their rich lyrical skill and unforgettable imagery, Tempest's bravura collection mines themes of transformation, identity and reaction against conformity with unparalleled insight and verve. Tempest uses words like a time traveller, taking the reader into fragments of their own lives, successes and heartbreaks. 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.