Young and lusty you run ahead
and my blood leaps in hot waves
as suddenly you flick up the hemline
of your skirt and before it falls
I glimpse two quivering cream lobes
divided by a skimp of black lace
just below the tramp stamp
in your coccyx.

Call me when I get home,
tell me what colour you've got on
and in my wife beater I'll sweetmouth you
to orgasm from five thousand miles
over the phone.

from 'Yankee Beach Girl'

After two bungled operations by the evil team of "surgeons" Pinky & Perky at Hurstwood Park, England, for his rare, terminal brain tumour, Brian Fogarty falls into the hands of the wicked, but smugly gormless, twin-setted and pearled London witch Doctor Shortcrass who, for her own murky purposes hoodwinks him into flying 5000 miles on a wild goose chase to Jacksonville, Florida, where he's further experimented on in the clinic of world wonder Doctor Malyimpropa, a semi talking walrus who, for the next three months, subjects the already deeply traumatised author to high doses of Proton Beam radiotherapy.

Resting up after each day's ordeal in his loft at Third & Main run by the delightful and enigmatic M.L, he distracts himself as best he can from the pain by writing these 85 poems, some of which he performed at the famous Three Layers Coffee House in the historic Springfield district of Jacksonville.

This is Brian Fogarty writing for his life; once again lumbered with a chronic, life-threatening illness he refuses to turn his face to the wall but instead turns his pain and anguish into truly great art with these amazing poems in an all out final bid to outrun his fate before the tumour (the "moon" in his head) paralyses and destroys him.
CHARLES MORGAN

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Jacksonville Daze First 250 copies sold, signed by the author, with a personal dedication if desired. Reserve your beautifully produced signed copy by emailing oysterpress@hotmail.co.uk. Send no money now, the book will be posted to you with an invoice. FREE DOWNLOAD Click to download an extract of 24 poems from 'Jacksonville Daze' Cover portrait: Red Scarlett (detail) by Brian Fogarty, 2009 acrylic on canvas (30 x 40in)

He realized this old image of his had been appropriated after
a slight wobble on impact to hold the others up. This kept most
of them right on message until they'd all freshened up their look
for summer, bang on trend with great tomboy styling. He scared
the others up with an arse-over-teakettle whoop-de-do which left
the crux of the matter quivering right there to be expanded.

They drew it towards them on wires until the youngest
of them, wearing surgical gloves for her date with the duke,
smiled gently at the tiny figures imprisoned in the centre
of a translucent sphere while they floated up and disappeared
in the horizon of coloured alphabets.

from 'Vertigo'

The world has been turned upside down.

Accordingly, any semblance of traditional logical narrative is constantly disrupted in Brian Fogarty's new collection of poems by lines and images which appear like irrational fugitives from parallel worlds, and whilst taking us on a dreamlike and often disturbing and disorientating journey, he returns us to our everyday lives refreshed, with a heightened sense of expectation and wonder at possibilities that are by turns playful, joyful, poignant, nostalgic, enigmatic, thrilling, challenging, and menacing.

In all Brian Fogarty's work, whether his novels, short stories, paintings, or poems - including 'This Side Up', his dazzling and provocative new collection, - art is not an arena for the illustration, mere imitation, or logging of apparent reality, but an autonomous, artificial act driven by his innermost, instinctive and unique need to give shape to a profound elemental force of expression.
JOHN BRADLEY

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Long out of print, this lost masterpiece of beauty and suspense is collected here for the first time with some of Brian Fogarty's earlier and more recent work, including extracts and poems from his great African novel, 'Red over Blue' to be published in the summer of 2006.
Fogarty's characters cling by their nail quicks to the world and think things they shouldn't, which gives his writing the edged ring of truth, notwithstanding the dreamy landscapes and his quirky, lyrical prose comparable to the fizz of Swarfega running against tomato juice; magnolias knifed onto a canvas in an impasto of pink Germolene. These rude flowers are grotesque parodies of the common-or-garden seed packet.

'Grips like a thriller...."The Greenhouse" is mesmerizing - so scary, lovely and strange: David Lynch meets Virginia Woolf and Georges Bataille. Reading it I got goosebumps all over.'
LUCY CHANG

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'The Greenhouse' (Collection of Stories & Poems) 1) Extract from the title story (The Greenhouse) 2) 4 Poems This book can ordered by emailing oysterpress@hotmail.co.uk. Send no money now, the book will be posted to you with an invoice. All books are 1st editions signed by the author. FREE DOWNLOAD Click to download an extract from 'The Greenhouse' and 4 Poems

During a brutally hot late summer, a luscious, ever-so-slightly mutilated teenage boy goes AWOL to the seaside in search of his identity. Philip wants to find acceptance in Brighton as a lesbian.

Kronk, a solitary agoraphobic who spies on young girls and frames parts of bodies he cuts from girly mags begins scoping Philip from his window when, morphed by make-up, a skimpy little dress and heels into Phyllis, he/she sashays to a phone box across the square where he lives. He calls her up in the box, blags her he's a 100 miles away in Cambridge and dialled a wrong number, hooks her into making regular telephone trysts with him by inducing her to talk about herself and the stuff a normal conversation never allows.

Jack Broker is a private dick hired by Philip's parents to find their child. Broker's search is going nowhere until he meets the Kid in a gay night club. The Kid is an occult medium and with his smack-fuelled Remote Viewing seances offers to help Broker trace the runaway. He begins to alert Broker to the mortal danger Philip is in from the obsessed stranger scanning/stalking him.

....Filthy, frightening, Metaphysical, profound, The Feeders is a beautiful and sinister journey that takes the reader to the core of these characters' unspeakable lives....

'Grotesque, visionary, tragic.'
BEN SUMNER

'Awesome. Unstoppable, seems destined for cult status. "The Feeders" rumbles like a volcano right from the start. Kronk is a monster and an angel. His passion for "Phyllis" burns white hot. When "she" enters his consciousness he sees "her" with the vividness and feverish surprise of someone half insane. The spectacle of her assaults his senses in a series of electric shocks until he eventually erupts. This carnal, wild, brutal, violent yet complex man seems, at any moment in the story, about to burst through the walls of any situation that contains him.'
TILT

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The Feeders This book can ordered by emailing oysterpress@hotmail.co.uk. Send no money now, the book will be posted to you with an invoice. All books are 1st editions signed by the author. FREE DOWNLOAD Click to download Chapter 28 from 'The Feeders'