First printing

£12 plus shipping

144 pages. Format approx. 7"/170mm wide x 10"/240mm tall. Acid-free card covers and text paper; full colour title page; acid-free brown endpapers. Printed & bound in England. ISBN: 978-1-910691-24-3

Front cover photo by John Gladdy.

Black & white illustration by Krent Able.

50 Numbered/signed/artwork copies

£130 plus shipping

144 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: 978-1-910691-23-6

Additional colour artwork by Krent Able only in this edition.

Quarter bound with Fabriano Tiziano red paper covered boards and Japanese silk burnt orange spine; front cover artwork embossed in black; acid-free text paper. Additional colour artwork by Krent Able is Indigo printed onto Mohawk Superfine paper and forms part of the 3-page ‘stepped’ Fabriano Tiziano front endpapers — the other page colours being 'grey with flecks' and black. Fabriano Tiziano 'grey with flecks' back endpapers.

Includes a gift reading copy of the first print paperback.

Signed by Alan Dent, Krent Able and publisher/binder Michael Curran.

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"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

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.

Alan Dent is a poet, critic, short-story writer and novelist. He founded and edited The Penniless Press and its successor MQB. He has published hundreds of reviews of modern poetry, many of them collected in his book, Too Much Toothache: The Malaise of Modern Poetry. He is currently working on a book about Joe Orton: Entertaining Hypocrites: The Playwriting of Joe Orton.

Krent Able is a comic artist and illustrator, based in London. Since 2009, his work has appeared in The Stool Pigeon, The Guardian, NME, Vice and Buzzfeed, and has been exhibited in The Vice Illustration Show, Comics Unmasked, amongst others. His Big Book of Mischief was published in 2012 by Knockabout Comics. In 2016 Mr Able co-wrote and starred in Ink, Cocks & Rock ‘n’ Roll, a short film about his life and work, by award-winning film director Matt Harlock.