Signed First Edition - On Connection: ON CONNECTION / FOYLES SIGNED

“In order to regain our balance, we need to remaster the ability to go deep, to ‘turn away from outer things’. To face what is in ourselves. This starts with connection and creativity."

Coming soon from Kae Tempest—spoken word performer, poet, recording artist and author—is On Connection, a short but substantial meditation on creativity and connection. Available as a signed first edition while stocks last.

In their first work of non-fiction, Tempest tackles the demons of the contemporary world and the demons of their own life, sharing hard-won insights from twenty years’ experience as a writer and performer—a creative career during which they have won and been nominated for awards across a range of media, but beneath which lurked crippling anxiety, dependencies and self-sabotage.

Here Tempest argues for the value of connection (with yourself, with the moment, and with others) and creativity—which may be music, writing, performance, parenting, your relationships, and so much more. For Tempest, the two are inseparable; they’re also essential to living a meaningful life. Through the artful course of their essay, bringing in examples from their own life, plus a healthy dose of Jungian thought and a few other key influences they discovered to be helpful, Tempest pushes against the ease with which the modern world numbs us to the lives of others and to ourselves.

This beautiful little book isn’t platitudes about creativity: it certainly works as a guidebook for creative advice, and it’s also a wise and kind word to anyone struggling with their place in the world. But it’s also a meaty, philosophical, experience-driven concoction entirely of its own; what Tempest does, and what Tempest does to the reader, is to give the sense that they’ve dived deep into the tumult of their own psyche, turned away from the expectations of the everyday, and come out the other side with something shining and new to share.