mick guffan • bent for the job • new poems • krent able artwork
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Bent for the Job features new and collected poems from the late Mick Guffan's extensive archive.
"If art is required to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed then this collection succeeds beyond expectation."
— Never Imitate (on Inner London Buddha)
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*** pages. Format approx. 7"/170mm wide x 10"/240mm tall. Acid-free card covers and text paper; full colour title page; acid-free endpapers. Printed & bound in England. ISBN: 978-1-910691-***
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*** pages. Pinched Crown format, approx. 7”/175mm wide, 10”/250mm tall. Handbound at the Tangerine workshop with acid-free boards, conservation glue and hemp cord; foil embossed front cover artwork; full colour title page. ISBN: 978-1-910691-***
Additional colour artwork by Krent Able only in this edition.
All details tbc. Quarter bound with Fabriano Tiziano paper covered boards and cloth spine; front cover artwork embossed in colour tbc; acid-free text paper.
Includes a gift reading copy of the first print paperback.
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Comments on Inner London Buddha:
"If art is required to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed then this collection succeeds beyond expectation."
— Never Imitate
"Time and again, he writes words that strike you with earnest truth, a prosaic brutality..."
— Bookmunch
"When you start reading [Inner London Buddha], you're hooked… What are you waiting for? Get it."
— The Pensive Quill
SOME OTHER COMMENTS ON MICK GUFFAN'S POETRY:
"The poems [in The Bastard Brother] are short, unadorned and written in the type of stark, gruff English which provides its own music, and which echoes most after you put the book down."
— The Skinny
"The nasty business of being human is ever in his thoughts."
— Trevor Reeves, Southern Ocean Review
"His writing continues to take me. It has the confidence and purpose of a man who is indifferent to the canon and yet the drive and need to get involved in the game. He’s great company and good to be alone with. Like drinking wine from a mug in the afternoon, wearing an old dressing gown and watching two flies fight over nothing in a sunbeam. A brilliant release."
— Reader comment on Mick Guffan's I am My Own Crew
Mick Guffan (1953-2006) was born in An Sciobairín, Cork, Ireland, the youngest of five brothers. He came to England at the age of 18, working variously as a taxi driver, airplane cleaner and finally as a carpenter. He died at St. George’s Hospital, Tooting, London on 14th June 2006, his body set about by nervous exhaustion following an unprovoked encounter in a public house.
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