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24 pages. Format approx. 7"/175mm wide x 250mm/10" tall. Handsewn, single section. Quarter bound with cloth spine and Fabriano Tiziano 'grey with blue flecks' paper covered boards; front cover artwork embossed in black; acid-free text paper; white and red Fabriano Tiziano endpapers. 'Signature scraps' encased in numbered, retro brown paper wage packets, included with all copies. ISBN: 978-1-917085-29-8

All copies 'signed' by the poet.

Background
Mick Guffan had a belief of a past life as a privateer or pirate, sailing the Atlantic and so on, with his first life ending in its twenty-sixth year, in the shadow of fatal trees lining the Edgware Road, London, 1719. The poems that make up A Sea of Griefs contemplate moments between moments of said transient existence, recollections if you will, including a 10-poem sequence 'Hanged Haikus', which takes us along cobbled streets, with jeering crowds, hawkers selling their wares, thence to the Derrick tightening the hempen rope, and well meaning leg pullers helping lost souls on their way.

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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 nearby public house.