Kate Tempest
Red Pill Presents
The Bricks That Built The Houses
With Jan Carson
Abby Oliveira, Erin Fornoff
& Alice McCullough
Crescent Arts Centre
Thursday 9 June – 8.30-9.30pm
Tickets: £8/£6
Crescent Arts Centre
Thursday 9 June – 10pm
Tickets: £4
Kate Tempest is an award-winning poet
(her epic poem Brand New Ancients
won the Ted Hughes Prize for poetry
in 2013) and rapper nominated for the
Mercury Music Prize 2014. A storyteller of
extraordinary power and humanity, she is
rapidly becoming one of the most exciting
and distinctive voices of her generation.
Her debut novel, The Bricks that Built
the Houses, explores a cross-section of
contemporary urban life with a powerful
moral microscope, giving us intimate
stories of hidden lives, and showing us that
good intentions don’t always lead to the
right decisions. Taking us into the homes
and hearts of ordinary people, their families
and their communities, Tempest exposes
moments of beauty, disappointment,
ambition and failure and questions how we
live with and love one another. She talks
about her novel and her work.
Red Pill are proud to present three of this
island’s top spoken word voices coming
together for the first time in this special
showcase. Award-winning trailblazers,
each of these three poets have made their
mark not just in their home towns of Derry,
Dublin and Belfast, but on the world stage.
A rare treat for any spoken word fan. Not to
be missed
‘Powerful and merciful’ Ali Smith
‘Mesmerising. A genuinely galvanising
presence’ Guardian
‘A talent that knows no bounds’
Independent
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