Kate Tempest: 'I like to play where the stakes are high' by Ally Carnwath

The poet on her Ted Hughes award " and performing inside Holloway prison Kate Tempest has spent most of the afternoon sitting near the bar at London's Southbank Centre, nursing a glass of water and scribbling ideas and phrases into a notebook. She's currently writing a novel, a rap album, a musical set in a women's prison: "Lots of very different, very scary worlds," she says, laughing, "but I think it's important to…

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