Robert Dutch

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Robert Dutch

Robert Dutch

Robert Dutch writes about the parts of life most people turn away from. His work dives into trauma, memory, and the fragile art of survival, transforming silence into something that speaks. He doesn’t write to heal. He writes to remember, to make sense of the echoes. Teeth in the Silence is his first collection — a testament to endurance, truth, and the quiet strength that follows destruction. 

TEETH IN THE SILENCE: A Record of What the Dark Leaves Behind

Teeth in the Silence is not a book about healing.
It’s a record of what the dark leaves behind after it feeds.

Through four parts—The Foundation, The Fracture, The Descent, and The Return—Robert Dutch carves his story into the page like a confession whispered through cracked glass. Each poem is a room built from memory: childhood bruises, the...

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The Silence Has Teeth It’s strange seeing something you wrote in the dark

It’s strange seeing something you wrote in the dark finally step into the light.

Teeth in the Silence is officially out in the world, and I’ve been sitting here trying to find the right words for what that means - for me, and maybe for you too.

This book began as a way to survive myself. I wasn’t trying to write a collection or chase publication. I was just trying to make sense of the echoes; the things that stayed long after they should have left. Each piece came from somewhere quiet and...