Kae Tempest

Kae Tempest is an award-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author, poet and recording artist.

Tempest won the 2013 Ted Hughes Award, was nominated for a Costa Book Award and a BRIT Award, has been shortlisted for the Mercury Prize twice and nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards. They were also named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society, a decennial accolade.

They released their third studio album, The Book of Traps and Lessons, in 2019, Executive Produced by Rick Rubin. ‘The Line Is A Curve’ is the new album from writer and musician Kae Tempest, set for release on 8th April 2022 by Fiction Records. It is the fourth album from the Lewisham based artist and has been produced by long term collaborator Dan Carey. The record also follows the critically-acclaimed play ‘Paradise’, which premiered at the National Theatre in London in 2021.