Brute traces moral endurance through brutality, labour, and raw survival.

Awards
Winner of the Good Book Indie Poetry Award
Finalist for the Independent Author Network Book of the Year Award

Endorsements
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

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 Author

An incandescent voice of this generation, Steven Bruce delivers poems of such fearless honesty.
- Emily Carter, Good Book Awards