Kae Tempest

Kae Tempest is, to me, the strongest argument that poetry never lost its public. Coming out of Brockley with a Goldsmiths education and a battle-rap instinct, Tempest collapses the distance between page, stage, and recording studio: a Ted Hughes Award, a Royal Society of Literature fellowship, and a Silver Lion all point to one restless intelligence. What moves me is the empathy in the work, the way ordinary Londoners are rendered mythic without condescension. Few artists move between novels, plays, and albums without diluting any of them. Tempest does, and each form sharpens the others. This is the rare voice I would follow into any medium.

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Name (English)

Kae Tempest

Name (Japanese)

ケイ・テンペスト

Reading

けい・てんぺすと

Born

December 22, 1985 (age 40)

Origin

Brockley, United Kingdom

Occupation

singer / writer / poet / composer / rapper

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

University

Goldsmiths, University of London

Awards & achievements

• Ted Hughes Award
• 2015 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• 2021 Silver Lion

• Official sitehttps://katetempest.co.uk/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/katetempest/
• Xhttps://x.com/kaetempest
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kae%20Tempest
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6375824

Tags

• singer
• writer
• poet

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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