mick guffan • the sole of discreshun • new poems
Thirteen new poems from Skibbereen-born poet/builder Mick Guffan (1953-2006).
With this new work, Mr Guffan takes on all manner of personal crises; also metaphysical disjunctivism, menstrual blood, The Shining, Minnie Riperton, pillow talk, etc...
FIRST FIFTY COPIES: FREE BROADSIDE OF A NEW POEM NOT FOUND IN THE BOOK
All copies include a genuine Mick Guffan 'signature scrap' encased in a retro brown paper wage packet.
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FIRST FIFTY COPIES: FREE BROADSIDE OF A NEW POEM NOT FOUND IN THE BOOK
24 pages. Format approx. 7"/175mm wide x 250mm/10" tall. Handsewn, single section. Quarter bound with hand marbled paper covered boards and linen cloth spine; front cover artwork embossed in black; book white, acid-free text paper; Hahnemuhle Bugra Butten grey endpapers. 'Signature scraps' encased in numbered, retro brown paper wage packets, included with all copies. ISBN: 978-1-910691-45-8
Two different hand marbled board coverings alternate with each number, the colours being: Red Plume Agate and Kingfisher Agate.
The copy you receive (and therefore covering) is our choice.
All copies 'signed' by the poet.
No copies will be sent out for review
Other comments on Mick Guffan's poetry:
"[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
"The nasty business of being human is ever in his thoughts."
— Trevor Reeves, Southern Ocean Review
"If art is required to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed then [Inner London Buddha] succeeds beyond expectation."
— Never Imitate
"Time and again, he writes words that strike you with earnest truth, a prosaic brutality..."
— Bookmunch
"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.
Publishing misfits, mavericks and misanthropes since 2006
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