Performance poet, rapper, playwright – Kate Tempest is a lot of literary things.
Though she rouses backroom bars and festival stages with her spoken word, pens plays and releases albums with her band Sound of Rum, it’s probably best to keep it simple. She’s a writer.
‘I never wanted to be a performance poet, I never wanted to be a rapper or a novelist or a playwright,’ she confesses from her hotel room in Sydney. ‘I wanted to write. I just wanted to make work – better work tomorrow than I made yesterday.’
