The Aureate Trophies of Profit & Loss (and other lyrics for a cold world) by Stuart McPherson
Broken Sleep Books
Published 31st December 2025.
Stuart McPherson's The Aureate Trophies of Profit & Loss is a caustic, relentless inventory of late capitalism's emotional, political, and ecological wreckage. Shifting between surreal anecdote, grotesque satire, and lyric collapse, the collection builds a scorched landscape where corporate speak merges with childhood trauma, and bureaucratic language is retooled into poetic resistance. McPherson's style is fragmentary and propulsive, driven by rage, black humour, and an unsentimental clarity that refuses redemption narratives. What emerges is a darkly incandescent critique of power and profit, articulated from the bone-dust of working life.
Stuart McPherson's The Aureate Trophies of Profit & Loss is a caustic, relentless inventory of late capitalism's emotional, political, and ecological wreckage. Shifting between surreal anecdote, grotesque satire, and lyric collapse, the collection builds a scorched landscape where corporate speak merges with childhood trauma, and bureaucratic language is retooled into poetic resistance. McPherson's style is fragmentary and propulsive, driven by rage, black humour, and an unsentimental clarity that refuses redemption narratives. What emerges is a darkly incandescent critique of power and profit, articulated from the bone-dust of working life.
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