Brutal Youth: Corbet the Poet

One of Corbet’s most intimate artistic expressions is his poetry collection, Brutal Youth, published in the 2025. Corbet’s Brutal Youth is an introspective, emotionally raw set of poems delving into themes such as adolescence, identity, vulnerability, trauma, and the painful beauty of growing up in a pre-pubescent world.

Highlights of Brutal Youth:

• Raw Emotional Bareness – Corbet’s poetry emulates the unfiltered emotional turbulence of youth: pride, guilt, longing, confusion, and the aching awareness of loss.

• Blunt Language, Layered Meaning – Lines often read like confessions, yet layered with metaphor and subtle musicality—revealing lessons learned in pain and defiance over abuse.

• Sensory Memory & Nostalgia – The poems evoke vivid memories—first love, parental disillusion, dreams collapsing—a mirror to many readers.

Critics, many in the psychiatry fields, have noted its voice plunges “beneath the braggadocio of pre-adolescence into real, unguarded sorrow,” celebrating it as a courageous contribution to Canadian confessional poetry.

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