On Connection: 'Powerful' MATT HAIG (Faber Social)

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This is a book about connection. About how immersing ourselves in creativity can help us cultivate greater self-awareness and bring us closer to each other. To really be useful to the connective power of the text, rather than interrogators, we must be the conductors. We, the readers or listeners, are crucial to the text, story or song becoming powerful. We are not impartial observers; we are a fundamental part of the circuitry; if we are not connected, the charge will not be able to flow. It's really hard for me to try and imagine where my life outside of creativity begins and ends." Loading...

They recall a particularly low point about 15 years ago: "I was drinking a lot. It was a bit of a weird time in my life and things were really chaotic."This little book shook me to my very foundations. It came to me when I needed it most. Now, I know what seems obvious, the loneliness of Covid-times and the absence of Connection in times like these, etc - yes, that is relevant here, but the reason why I was so moved goes way deeper. In dit essay - geschreven tijdens de eerste Covid-19 golf - gaat Tempest op zoek naar de essentie van creativiteit en de zin daarvan in hun en ons leven. Hoe gedetailleerder zij naar zichzelf kijken en hoe eerlijker ze dat beschrijven, hoe universeler hun boodschap; schrijven ze zelf en daar raken ze meteen nagels met koppen. Alexis Petridis (27 July 2017). "2017 Mercury shortlist fails to spotlight truly exciting British music". The Guardian. Tempest schudt je wakker, zet je voor de spiegel, opent je ziel en laat haar vrij. De wereld in. Het moment waarin je je bevindt - het moment dat telt. Kijk om je heen. Alles leeft. Land, zie, voel tot in het diepste van je zijn. Van je kruin tot in je tenen. Voel je het al? Al dat leven?

a b c Mahoney, Elisabeth (27 March 2012). "Wasted – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 February 2018. Tripney, Natasha (4 May 2017). "Kate Tempest: 'Everything is defined in monetary terms' ". The Stage . Retrieved 19 June 2018. Brand New Ancients was a 75-minute-long poem that I told in theatres, scored for a quartet of drums and electronics, violin, cello and tuba. I wrote the poem over a period of many months, in weeklong bursts of intense creativity, and once it was finished and on its feet touring, I saw first-hand that there were things Tempest-the-writer never knew about the writing that Tempest-the-reader discovered each night with increasing clarity. Themes emerged to me, the reader, once I had committed the text to my body and was delivering it to rooms of people. Patterns to the language that I hadn’t been aware of when I was writing. Patterns between characters. I noticed links that helped me intuit meaning and remember the text, because they gave me a sense of why one passage led to another, but I have to say I was not aware of these links in the same way when I was writing. I have found this to be the case with every work I’ve toured since then. The reader undergoes a process of discovery that the writer side of myself is not involved in. This is why I made the decision to record my most recent album, The Book of Traps and Lessons, in one take, after committing it to memory. To try to get as close to that process of discovery as I could. I bought this in a whim as I enjoy Kae Tempest’s music; they’re an incredible writer and clearly very talented. I’m not sure what I was expecting in terms of the content, but I was a bit disappointed with what I got. Facebook TV Commercial, 'We're Never Lost If We Can Find Each Other' Song by Kate Tempest". iSpot.tv . Retrieved 9 April 2020.

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In 2013, aged 28, they won the Ted Hughes Award for their work Brand New Ancients, the first person under the age of 40 to win the award, [37] and was selected as one of the 2014 Next Generation Poets by the Poetry Society. [38] Neale, Matthew (16 November 2019). "Exclusive: New letter supporting Jeremy Corbyn signed by Roger Waters, Robert Del Naja and more". NME . Retrieved 27 November 2019.

and this book feels like the other end of the parentheses that palmer opened. i don't Know tempest's work, beyond let them eat chaos which ? i have no solid recollection of ? so i came at this at a slant, as a curious stranger to their life and ideas. & on connection is, from where i'm standing now, better than the art of asking -- it's more politically oriented & critical of the systems of value that both art & self have to navigate, it feels generally less complacent, less self-celebratory. but it also, as a closing parenthesis, doesn't feel particularly new or exciting. its ideas are ones i've been turning over in my head over the last few years, it echoes shifts i've already started trying to make & realisations i've come to from other angles & conclusions i've formed slightly differently. On Connection is a thesis on connecting through creativity. Tempest puts it simply in the book: "Telling poems levels the room."

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Immersion in other people’s stories cultivates empathy. When we are reading or listening to stories being told, provided there is enough tension in the narrative, our brains release cortisol into our blood to help us focus and concentrate, and also oxytocin, the chemical related to care and empathy.