New Poetry Collection by Shaun Hand

7th December 2020

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The New Brutalism is a collection of poems by Shaun Hand made in collaboration with photo-artist Tom Hicks and published by Kates Hill Press. After drifting into what Shaun calls "various dead end jobs" he began studying English at night school aged 22 - to get a night off from the pub he was working at 6 days a week as much as anything else. realising this was his bag (he likes jazz too) he went on to study Creative Writing & English at the University of Wolverhampton and graduated with a First. Shaun continued to work in pubs and bars around Wolverhampton using his spare time to what he describes as "to procrastinate, make music and eventually start writing books". In 2016 he self-published Pop Art Poems: The Music of the Jam - a book about his favourite band that continues to sell worldwide and has been praised as one of the best books ever written about the band. His debut novel, The Sadness of The King George, based on his years of working in pubs, will be published in February 2021. Shaun is one quarter of trip-hop/electronica group FABRIK who have released 2 albums, City Islands (2017) and Impermanence (2020) and their music has featured on TV and podcasts in America. The New Brutalism is Shaun`s first poetry collection and published by Kates Hill Press. The foreword to the new collection by Greg Stokes reads "the volume is a collaboration of poetry and photography which makes a statement about the world we live in now. As Dean Kelland observed about Tom Hicks` ongoing photography project Black Country Type "Hicks is about being here now". The poems of Shaun Hand complement the selected photographs wonderfully and would standalone as comment about the brutality of the modern age".

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