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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This Side Up This book can now be ordered through any good bookshop anywhere in the world. FREE DOWNLOAD Click to download an extract of 5 poems from 'This Side Up' Cover portrait: Irvine by Brian Fogarty, 2009 acrylic on canvas (10 x 12 in)

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 now be ordered through any good bookshop anywhere in the world. 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

The Feeders is to be published by Oyster Press in June 2006, paperback, 293 pages, £10.99, plus £1.50 P&P. Cheques/ POs payable to Oyster Press.
ISBN 9780953445639
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The Feeders This book can now be ordered through any good bookshop anywhere in the world. All books are 1st editions signed by the author. FREE DOWNLOAD Click to download Chapter 28 from 'The Feeders'

Red Over Blue	AN OYSTER PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: UK £11.99
A mystery thriller, and love story of hallucinogenic, mind-blowing intensity set in post-colonial Africa. Sudan in the turbulent months before President Nimeiri, stooge of the West, was overthrown by his own people; a time when the CIA could still, under pretext of containing communism, move in and act out the American government's neo-colonial fantasies; a time when the US believed 'my enemy's enemy is my friend' and played footsie with Muslim extremists like Osama bin Laden. Against this background causing increasing civil unrest and impending famine, London film director Charlie Moon arrives in Dawawa, a city on the Blue Nile, central Sudan, having heard that his missing friend, the actor David Lawton, has been seen there. What he finds is David's body in the mortuary and a set of photographs which seemingly link him to a beautiful Sudanese girl. Believing the girl might hold the key to the mystery as to how and why David died, Charlie resolves to find her and uncover the truth. When Charlie gains access to the journal David kept of his life in Sudan, a story unfolds of a passionate love affair between David and the Muslim girl, Sadia; a dangerous forbidden love defying all the laws and taboos of Sudanese society. The journals also reveal that both Sadie and David had become enmeshed in the religious and political conflict threatening to tear the country apart. As Charlie, like David before him, finds himself falling under the spell of Sudan and its people, he too becomes involved in the struggle to bring the country back from the brink of civil war. Erotic, violent, passionate, profound, Red over Blue lifts the lid to reveal a world of strong emotions where the three great subjects of politics, religion, and love, intertwist. 'Breathtaking magnificence. Like the river Nile itself, where most of the story is set, "Red over Blue" awes and spellbinds us with its vast scope, its twists and turns, the sense, every inch the journey gives, of its gradually accumulating, massive power. "Red over Blue" is, moreover, a hugely entertaining and intensely moving human experience. A towering achievement: here at last is the long-awaited, "Great British Novel".' Freddy Kokoza. Red over Blue will be available from Oyster Press from July 2006; paperback, 724 pages, £11.99, plus £1.50 P&P. ISBN 9780953445622 Cheques/POs/International Money Orders payable to Oyster Press Oyster Press, PO Box 395, Brighton, BN50 9GJ, England. UK 'Red Over Blue' This book can now be ordered through any good bookshop anywhere in the world. All books are 1st editions signed by the author. Chapter One from Red over Blue FREE DOWNLOAD Click to download Chapter One from 'Red Over Blue'
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