Brute: A Poetry Collection

Brute is a meditation on survival. It traces moral endurance through labour, loss, and the stubborn act of carrying on. Awards Winner of the Good Book Indie Poetry Award Finalist for the Independent Author Network Book of the Year Award Endorsements Bruce's poems were written in the trenches of humanity's rage. - Barbara Leonhard, Masticadores USA I haven't read anyone who has ever made sadness and the shit we have to go through feel this good. - Martin Hayes, Roar This isn't just working class testimony as poetry, it is carefully crafted art that demands to be read and reread. - Andy Willoughby, Between Stations An incandescent voice of his generation, Steven Bruce delivers poems of such fearless honesty. - Emily Carter, Good Book Awards