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Kate Tempest

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Kae Tempest: 'We need to reinvigorate our senses'

Novelist, poet and spoken-word artist Kae Tempest is enlisting an army of homeless poets to shine new light on the world around us as part of the Brighton Festival. She explains how the arts bring us closer to the truth about our lives

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Kate Tempest

Kae Tempest: 'We need to reinvigorate our senses'

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