100 Numbered/signed copies

£25 plus shipping

24 pages. Format approx. 7"/175mm wide x 250mm/10" tall. Handsewn, single section. Quarter bound with hand marbled paper covered boards and Japanese olive green silk spine; front cover artwork embossed in black; Heritage book white archival quality, Fourdrinier made, acid-free text paper; Hahnemuhle black endpapers. 'Signature scraps' encased in numbered, retro brown paper wage packets, included with all copies. ISBN: 978-1-910691-06-9

The first 10 copies are quarter bound with an alternate Japanese dark green silk spine and include a signed/numbered broadside of a much-anthologised classic poem by Guffan not included in the book. The text is embossed in black onto heavyweight Somerset Velvet Newsprint paper, close to a genuine Guffan signature. These signed sheets (from a bundle totalling approx. 649) were left behind by Guffan for this purpose and only recently discovered.

All copies 'signed' by the poet.

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"[The Bastard Brother] poems 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

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.