BRAND NEW ANCIENTS

Winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Kate Tempest is one of
the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetr
y in many years; her dramatic poem Brand New Ancients won the prestigious Ted Hu
ghes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest's wholly unique blend of street poe
try, rap and storytelling - combined with the spellbinding delivery of an open-a
ir 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 tol
d with live music.