On Connection - (Faber Social) by Kae Tempest (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Beneath the surface we are all connected . . .</i> <p/> This is a meditation on the power of creative connection. Drawing on twenty years' experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest explores how and why creativity - however we choose to practise it - can cultivate greater self-awareness and help us establish a deeper relationship to ourselves and the world. <p/> Honest, tender and written with piercing clarity, <i>On Connection</i> is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[In] This slim, eloquent work composed during the 2020 pandemic lockdown.... their prose remains elegant and well-turned. This thoughtful meditation will resonate with anyone looking for new ways to engage with their creativity." -- <i> Publishers Weekly </i> <p/> "With its emphasis on empathy and the importance of being present, this slender book, which will appeal mostly to readers with an interest in mindfulness, is a welcome tonic to the fractured dissonance of modern life. <p/> A lyrical, tender linguistic balm." -- <i>Kirkus</i> <p/> "Musings on creativity and connection threaded with autobiographical edge and Jung and William Blake and others. An authentically soothing, powerful, thought provoker." -- <b>Matt Haig</b>, Author of <i>The Midnight Library</i> <p/> "I identify with <i>[On Connection]</i> so deeply . . . I love it." -- <b>Flea</b><br><br>"<i>On Connection</i> is soul work, deeply felt and beautifully wrought. The truth-speaker Kae Tempest takes to non-fiction with grace, musicality and innate essayistic skill. The book glows with their trademark honesty and questing integrity. <i>On Connection</i> is medicine for these wounded times." -- <b>Max Porter</b>, Author of <i> Grief is the Thing with Feathers </i> <p/> "The powerful <i>On Connection</i> came to me when I needed it most, and reminded me that the links we have to places, people, words, ourselves, are what keep us alive." -- <b>Candice Carty-Williams</b>, Author of <i>Queenie</i> <p/> "A precious small book with a huge punch right at the heart of the problems of today." -- <b>Cosey Fanni Tutti</b><br><br><b>PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS WORKS BY KATE TEMPEST </b> <p/> "Tempest . . . doesn't just leap off the page, but leaps into your throat and demands to be shouted all the way out." -- <b>Marlon James </b> <p/> "Powerful and merciful." -- <b>Ali Smith</b> <p/> "Tempest has an ability to write about big, metaphysical subjects in the most vernacular language." -- Michiko Kakutani, The <i>New York Times</i> on <i>HOLD YOUR OWN</i> and <i>BRAND NEW ANCIENTS</i> <p/> "One of the brightest British talents around. Her spoken-word performances have the metre and craft of traditional poetry, the kinetic agitation of hip-hop and the intimacy of a whispered heart-to-heart . . . drawing on ancient mythology and sermonic cadence to tell stories of the everyday." -- <i>Guardian</i> <p/> "[The Bricks that Built the Houses] marks the arrival of a significant new voice . . . deeply affecting: cinematic in scope; touching in its emphatic humanity . . . Tempest's voice--by turns raging and tender--never falters. By the time the novel reaches its cleareyed climax, cleverly undercutting its own promised happy ending, the reader is left with the impression of a work that hums with human life." --The <i>New York Times</i> Book Review, Editors Choice <p/> "Tempest has a knack for the devastating throwaway line--a skill-honed, no doubt, from years of rapping and spoken-word performances. Her work is rich with underlinable lines . . . Captivating." --The <i>New Yorker</i> on <i>THE BRICKS THAT BUILT THE HOUSES</i> <p/> "Blake, Shakespeare, Eliot, the Wu-Tang Clan: when an artist's outlook on boundaries is so dizzyingly open, you long to know what happens next." --<i>Guardian</i> on <i>THE BRICKS THAT BUILT THE HOUSES</i> <p/> "A novel that perfectly captures the modern trials and tribulations of youth and urban life in London." --BuzzFeed on <i>THE BRICKS THAT BUILT THE HOUSES</i> <p/> "[Tempest is] a Zadie Smith if Smith were in her 20s again . . . An artistic prodigy . . . [Her] captivating <i>The Bricks That Built the Houses</i> is rich in detail, clever in plot and filled with characters who live on the edge but never quite give up." --Shelf Awareness on <i>THE BRICKS THAT BUILT THE HOUSES</i> <p/> "Thrillingly good . . . Ms. Tempest stitches together words with such animate grace that language acquires an almost tactile quality, and the drama she unfolds . . . soars to operatic dimensions. . . . [An] hypnotically persuasive vision." --Charles Isherwood, <i>New York Times</i> on <i>BRAND NEW ANCIENTS</i> <p/> "This feels a lot like Patti Smith here, in massive wordplay. The sorrows, loss, and rage are the same; and you have to admire the inner beauty coming to surface in serious ways; and more than that, applaud a young artist on a marvelous occasion for driving a dream to the fullest extent just for the flight of it." --<i>Washington Review of Books</i> on <i>LET THEM EAT CHAOS</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Kate Tempest</b> is an award-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author, poet and recording artist. She won the 2013 Ted Hughes Award, was nominated for a Costa Book Award and a BRIT Award, and has been shortlisted for the Mercury Prize twice. She was also named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society, a decennial accolade. She released her fourth studio album, <i>The Book of Traps and Lessons</i>, in 2019, produced by Rick Rubin. Tempest grew up in South-East London, where she still lives today. @katetempest
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