This month for Poetry 365 we’re featuring Kate Tempest’s extraordinary long poem Brand New Ancients. Winner of the 2012 Ted Hughes Award, the British poet/rapper/novelist’s second book of verse finds the mythic in the mundane story of half-brothers Thomas and Clive and their violently converging fates in southeast London. Hypnotic, operatic, and “written to be read aloud,” Brand New Ancients was lauded by The Scotsman as “a torrent of poetry so brilliant that the words often seem to glow and smoke with intensity.” So check out this powerful new voice, sample an excerpt below, and make sure to stop back next month for Poetry 365.