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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Sometimes amongst all of the crap someone comes along and puts it down plain and simple. It helps you get up in the mornings. It helps you get through all of the days. It makes you feel less lonely. 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. It is good.
I haven’t read anyone who has ever made sadness and the shit we have to go through feel this good.
— 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. This remarkable work examines the possibility of survival and the hardest edges of trauma yet it is brilliantly controlled and chiselled onto the page, its images ringing true in your mind long after you put it down. This isn’t just working class testimony as poetry, it is carefully crafted art that demands to be read and reread.
— Andy Willoughby, Poet and Lecturer
★★★★★
Bruce's poems were written in the trenches of humanity's rage.
— BARBARA LEONHARD, Masticadores USA
★★★★★