Dark Poetry Series

Gothic Twilight is the first in a unique series of books portraying gothic poetry, by J J Ginty. A portentous piece; taking one through the darker realms of infirmity & schizophrenia; seduction & possession; dreamscapes & apocalyptic visions; spectral hauntings & the accursed; forsaken love & self-murder; disembodied spirits & forgotten souls; lycanthropes, and of course ... vampires. This is no ordinary piece, and serves as an excellent introduction for the series of books to follow; as this collection increasingly takes one deeper into the all-encompassing shadows of the dark, isolated, mysteriously disconcerting (yet provocatively beautiful) twilight dominion of the gothic.

Looking out upon an external world, which seemingly appears transformed by the light from a gothic window, is ... where J J Ginty likes to sit and consider his poetic observations - exploring the deeper psyche within his gothic outlook. Viewing motifs from the extraordinary and other-worldly, to espying themes from the more ordinary and down-to-earth.  These reflections are introspective; largely inspired by the author's own personal encounters, exploits and inscapes; thus creating this poetry piece; found to be encrypted with interpretations and comprehensions from within - designed by life's worldliness from without. Views From A Gothic Window is a selection of poetry and prose, which is intriguingly dark in nature; though, it does occasionally permit a little comedy and sentiment to tiptoe it's way into the foreboding and peculiar imagery ... of the natural & supernatural; the normal & paranormal. This book is the second in a series dedicated to viewing the external world (and it's seductive, unworldly inner-natures) from a beautifully gothic perspective.

BEHOLD! … AS HE PARADES THE MOTLEY INCARNATIONS THAT DWELL WITHIN THE TWILIGHT OF HIS HAUNTED GOTHIC SOUL!  Gothic Twilight II is the fourth collection in J J Ginty's Dark Poetry series. Pursuing on from the spectral dominions of Gothic Twilight (Dark Poetry, Volume 2). Here the author takes us on a less abstruse, easier to comprehend journey into the alternate, opaque apprehensions of everyday life, and its day-to-day experiences & insights. Represented throughout by his mysteriously unique view; exploring the memories, accounts, flashbacks, dreams, nightmares, … taken from his own personal involvements and observations. One could to say, it reads a bit like a poetic journal, of sorts. The twenty-two poems herein are considerations and interpretations of various spiritual (or metaphysical) happenings, impressions, premonitions & intuitions. Covering topics such as: resurrection, rebirth, near death experience (NDE), the afterlife, God, Self, loss of Self, and the dichotomy of dualistic existence.  J J Ginty also speaks to us of love, loss, grief, friendship; appreciation, inspiration, influence, fantasy; fate, fear, anger, joy; mental disturbance; delusion, illusion and obsessive desire.  Some of the poems in this collection read like the psychotronic-memoires of an altered consciousness; where the reader is taken through the dipsomanic, drug-fuelled hallucinations and visions of J J Ginty's past (which do have a tendency to flashback into his present, everyday life, from time-to-time); thus leading to some pretty interesting juxtapositions on what life apparently is.  Enjoy this short read, while you take in the paradoxical-irony shared through J J Ginty's surreal & sardonic glimpses of Nirvana, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory; Life, Love, Damnation & Suffering. Coupled with his nihilistic & caustic glances at a hopelessly dysphoric and dystopian world future.

DYSTOPIA! DYSPHORIA! DISSATISFACTION! DISSIPATION! EXTINCTION! J J Ginty's 'poetic journal' is a delicious insight. Gothic Twilight III is an organic outgrowth of Gothic Twilight II (Dark Poetry, Volume 4). Presenting the thought-provoking (sometimes disturbing), poetic continuance of J J Ginty's chronicles into the predominantly dark (sometimes hopeful) provinces of vice, street life, drug addiction, alcoholism, death, angels, devils, psychosis, despair, loneliness; sobriety, freedom, non-attachment, awakening, wisdom & higher consciousness; reflecting on some of the disappointments, delusions & fears of growing up (getting older); and the liberations & enlightenments therein. This poetry piece is multifarious by nature & design; covering a wide array of topics; and has been especially composed for those of us of a somewhat dark/gothic mind to indulge our like-mindedness with J J Ginty; as we share with him and explore the inner & outer worlds of censorship, sexual/political ambiguity, media deception, Man's corruption & incarceration of mind & soul; 'Big Brother', famine, genocide, and the poisonous & insidious works of the Three Evils (religion, big business, government): the exploitations of Humanity, and the perpetual moralizing of Man's inhumanities against Humanity. The works herein are concerned with both the microcosmic and the macrocosmic: examining the inner & outer psyche of the Self, and the thought-created, egoic-world within mandalic existence; and the dilemmas faced – both internally & externally. J J Ginty, in this absorbing collection, does beautifully & creatively share his attested sympathies with the 'Isolationist': those of us who feel somewhat adrift – feel like we are something 'other'; those of us who don't always believe what is seen, heard, taught or disclosed; those of us who are of a deep & introspective nature; those of us who occasionally like to stick two fingers up at the external world; those of us who are, shall we say, already predisposed? Contains strong language.

BEHOLD! … AS HE DISPLAYS HIS INNER PORTRAITS OF THE MANY ALTERED INCARNATIONS THAT HANG WITHIN THE TWILIGHT OF HIS IMMORTAL GOTHIC SOUL! Gothic Twilight IV: the continuance of J J Ginty's poetic journal.  Here we are … reunited with J J Ginty on another soul-searching expedition into the outer & inner-spaces within the externals & internals of his peculiar perceptions & curious conceptions – even if it is only to realize that, perhaps, outer-space is merely inner-space ripped open; in the similar way that, maybe, our outer-world realities are mere reflections of our inner-world realities.  Take pleasure in this short & absorbing read, as you journey further & deeper into the metaphysics of worldly & other-worldly recollections, contemplations & ruminations; flashbacks, visions, hallucinations and fanciful reveries; whilst considering such things as: God, eternity, ancestry, life-after-death, cyclic-human-existence, prophesies of the unconscious, out-of-body visitations of mind, reincarnation/rebirth; inner-peace, acceptance, physical love, spiritual love, transcendental sensuality; and the ecstasies to be found in the beauty of life within the transports of a beautiful world.  The twenty poems herein also set forth J J Ginty's more trenchant sentiments; as the author exhibits his poetic (though somewhat dark) commentaries on topics such as: the futile chaos of inhumanity & war; the interminable fear & turmoil of the mind enslaved to insobriety, addiction, remorse & shame; displaying a time-travelling insight into the human world of unease, pain, suffering, dissatisfaction, despair & loneliness.  Though this collection is characteristic of the author's familiar dystopian and foreboding style; there is, however, woven into the interconnected tapestries, inner portraits of appreciation, liberation, divine acknowledgement, splendor, wonder & surrender in a journey the author feels compelled to continue along; documenting & commenting on a world which is, for him, neither bad nor good, dark nor light. For J J Ginty it is Gothic … it is Twilight.  Contains strong language.

A POETIC JOURNAL INTO THE NATURAL, THE SUPERNATURAL, THE DEMONIC AND THE ANGELIC, STUDYING THE OTHER-WORLDLINESS TO BE FOUND IN A SUBLUNARY EARTHBOUND DAY-TO-DAY LIFE.  Let us travel once more with J J Ginty between the many contemplative layers to be found within the twilight dominion of one man's gothic past, present & future; visualizing, romanticizing, prophesizing through Heaven & Hell – detouring via Purgatory: exploring the intriguingly varied facets of life, death, love, loss & remembrance, … materializing within vivid glimpses into afterlife, spiritual foretelling & clairvoyant visions, … to reveal a compendium of ghostly sensualities, celestial divinations & apocalyptic reveries through the author's absorbed hallucinatory mind in search of Liberty, True Consciousness, & Being.  The nineteen poems herein also include J J Ginty's more temporal views of the world (it's not all dreamscapes & spectral apparitions), as he explores and soul-searches the realms that make up the human mask: Mental Health, Suffering, Addiction, War, Conspiracy, Government, Big brother, Religion, Ancestry, … and, of course, the thin veneer of all that which we believe to be Civilization.  The author also brings us his poetic considerations on Beauty, Nature, Intimacy, God, Salvation, and the intricate sensibilities to be found in one's own childhood memories.  Contains strong language. Dedicated to the 'Isolationist': Those who generally feel somewhat adrift Those who perhaps feel they are something 'other' Those who don't always believe in what is seen, heard, taught or disclosed Those who are of a deep & introspective nature Those who occasionally like to stick two fingers up at the external world Those who are inwardly travelling Time. In Appreciation. Always. J J Ginty

FROM THE AUTHOR OF 'GOTHIC TWILIGHT': HE WHO CONTINUES TO TIPTOE THRU THE TWILIGHT, RECORDING THE MIX OF BODILESS VOICES HE ENCOUNTERS ECHOING WITHIN THE PSYCHIC ACOUSTICS OF THE INNER MIND'S EAR … A more than usual personal impression is left keenly resounding, after one has explored, considered, and unraveled the exquisitely delivered, profoundly deep and arcanely crepuscular, evocative messages contained within J J Ginty's poetic journal. The pulsating theatricalities and transmittable intensity felt between the lines of this impassioned, honest, and most consuming read is especially potent and curiously palpable – from the very first line to the very last. This distinctive and uncanny little composition is sure to articulate and resonate somewhat further and deeper beyond that which might normally be expected from a short book of dark/gothic poetry; in the sense that, the 37 poems herein are not archetypically consistent with that of the dark and the gothic in a classical, traditional or conventional, or even contemporary, sense. That is to say, if one is expecting or hoping for pages brimming with nothing but haunted castles, spooky graveyards, vampire bats hanging upside down in the belfry, living folk being buried alive and dead folk rising up out of their graves, and other such jeepers-creepers; or, if one is looking for overt tales and experiences that share accounts of abuse, self-harm, suicide, depression, various psychopathologies, criminal insanity etc., etc., this may not be the collection for you; though, it must be said, there are a wide variety of these preternatural themes and psychosomatic subjects (along with many others, and much more besides) woven into, between, and beyond the vivid lines and emotional content herein, which are, at the very heart of it all, obliquely dark/gothic in their depictions, considerations, feelings, inscapes and outlooks. It would not be precise to describe these poems as light, dark or gothic (per se) – they would be more accurately described as (shall we say) … twilight (i.e. somewhere in-between the light & dark). For isn't twilight that wonderous great vehicle which transports us from the light of day into the darkness of night? J J Ginty does so colorfully express that which he conceives – born out of that which he perceives – thus communicating and connecting with those of us who decidedly share in similar proclivities: those of us (albeit so very few of us) who perhaps appreciate the widely interweaving, multifarious and provocative twilit themes to be found within one's own life, … death, … afterlife … This book was conceived, born and nurtured out of ordinary day-to-day life and its mortal, earthly, mundane happenings ('reality', if you will), leading the author to produce this collection; effectively displaying his very own idiosyncratic take on Strange & Peculiar Reality. Contains strong language. Dedicated to the 'Isolationist': Those who generally feel somewhat adrift Those who perhaps feel they are something 'other' Those who don't always believe in what is seen, heard, taught or disclosed Those who are of a deep & introspective nature Those who occasionally like to stick two fingers up at the external world Those who are inwardly travelling Time. In Appreciation. Always. J J Ginty