In this unflinching collection, Brute pulls no punches. Temptation and trauma walk hand in hand with dark humour, scarred tenderness, and streetwise wisdom. These poems dwell in the margins, where grief smokes alone.
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Finalist for the 2025 Independant Author Network Book of the Year Award
Brute is a rare book - it has a kind of magic in it that makes you feel more alive than before you’d read it.
— Martin Hayes, Poet and Author
★★★★★
Steven Bruce has written a new collection that cuts through the noise of contemporary poetry with its sharp insistence on looking reality hard in the eye without recourse to self pity or any kind of transcendence or easy redemption.
— Andy Willoughby, Poet and Lecturer
★★★★★