Hold your own game12/29/2022 ![]() ![]() On the one hand, she is the soul of modernity: now 28, she began her professional career as a rapper at 16 became the youngest-ever winner of the Ted Hughes prize for innovation in poetry for her “spoken story”, Brand New Ancients, last year was named by the Poetry Book Society as one of its 20 Next Generation poets in September and, this week, was tipped to win the Mercury prize for her debut album, Everybody Down, in which she lays out the lives of three friends struggling with loneliness and insecurity in 21st‑century London, over the course of 12 densely plotted, dashingly articulate tracks. ![]() A t the heart of Kate Tempest’s latest work is a captivating dichotomy. ![]()
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