Rap meets Poetry. Kate Tempest is a writer of rhymes, lyrics, poems, prose and plays. She has performed her writing on stages the world over, from Latvia, Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, Austria and Munich to Sydney and New York, as well as at major European music festivals, including Glastonbury. She has written poems for Barnado's , the BBC, Amnesty International, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Turner Prize winning artist Chris Offili. She is two times poetry slam winner at the prestigious Nu-Yorican poetry cafe in New York. She has supported legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke and supported Billy Bragg on his Leftfield in Motion tour with her band Sound of Rum, whose debut album 'Balance' came out in 2011 on Rob Da Bank's Sunday Best Recordings. She has taught workshops in writing and performance to students in comprehensive secondary schools in London and to students at Yale University. Her first play 'Wasted' toured from March to May in 2012. Her first full-length poetry book 'Everything Speaks in its Own Way' was released in April 2012 on her own publishing imprint 'Zingaro'.