Brute: A Poetry Collection

By Steven Bruce

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1838088563
• ISBN13: 9781838088569
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: 1987 Books
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"