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White Knuckle by Steven Bruce5/18/2023 ![]() And stay with him and his fantastic poetry as we wait to see where he goes next. Compare this also with the Bukowski line about sitting down with your demons and have a drink and a laugh with them, and you get to a place where you realise that someone who is brave enough to do so, and talented enough to compress it into poetry is a creative soul we should treasure.īuy the book, go on the journey with Steven, don't be afraid to laugh at the dark humour and have a drink with his demons. There is a line in it - 'if you take away my demons, you take my angels too'. Recently I listened to the song 'Callow', by one of my favourite bands, Therapy. When the director started his career in earnest, with 1996’s Swingers, he positioned himself as a bold new voice in American independent cinema a director fascinated with subcultures that dot. There are rays of light throughout this book which have led him onwards to a place where he can use his talent to move us. There's a search for the exit and a future where he can use the talent he found in the dark days of his childhood. But there's something deeper there, beyond the pain. ![]() Steven has bared his soul in this book - he has been to hell, and with his poetry, he has come back. Channel your emotion into creativity and maybe, just maybe, you'll find a way out. ![]() ![]() It was Neil Gaiman who told us that when everything is wrong, to make good art. ![]()
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