J J Ginty is an eclectic writer who is indeed a poet by nature and selection; and beautifully exhibits his artistry through the composition of verse and prose. An author who could perhaps write about any theme in any place, in any time, or any space. Composing his work to suit almost any style, and almost any taste. Having a propensity towards the darker characteristics of life (and death); whether they'd be real or surreal; natural or unnatural (supernatural); normal or paranormal; ordinary or extraordinary. It would be difficult to sum J J Ginty up as a writer; but for now, at least, it shall be said ... he is a writer/poet who has crafted his style to articulate the Dark and 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...
This rare compendium of poetry, one could say, is characteristic of a photo album. Splinters is a poetic album, capturing evanescent moments of one's life, in perhaps the same way a selection of photographs might. Though unlike photography, which generally tends to capture the happier moments of our lives, J J Ginty's 'poetic camera' tends to encapsulate our more desolate inscapes. With it's...
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 –...
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 –...
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...
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...
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...
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...