Your copy comes with a hand-printed, limited (250 prints) letterpress print. It features an extract from Kae Tempest's critically-acclaimed On Connection – a meditation on the power of creative connection. The extract, chosen by Kae, has been printed in a beautiful burnt-orange ink and printed on 350 gsm Favini Crush paper, which is made using 15% reclaimed organic pulp from plants. Each print is signed by Kae and packaged in a compostible cellophane sleeve and cardboard envelope for protection during transit. Each of this final batch of 250 prints has been signed by Kae Tempest.
Drawing on twenty years' experience as a writer and performer, award-winning poet, rapper and storyteller 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.
Personal, hopeful and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a meditation on creative connection and call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth." (faber.co.uk)
"[Kae’s] language hits like lightning. It illuminates and it burns." Guardian
"On Connection is the first work published under their new name and pronouns. Kate to Kae. She/Her to They/Them. Pronounced like the letter ‘K’. For more information visit kaetempest.co.uk.
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 was 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 fourth studio album, The Book of Traps and Lessons, in 2019, produced by Rick Rubin. Tempest grew up in South-East London, where they still live. @kaetempest" (faber.co.uk)