Soft Tissues is for all the current generation of whom have had issues and need a tissue.
Praise for Soft "Exact— investigational retching— reminiscent of Apollinaire— or Saint-John Perse. There is spiralling flight— redolent imagery within Zak Ferguson’s writing— poetries constructed in lifeblood—assembled fibres and entangled bear hair— online apps and old static radios— social media and skid marks— slang terminology inside high rise blocks— fashioned overall debris and dormant wood rot— erected tequila slime within antisocial attitudes— taken apart and pieced together by fag ash and slow motion— structured infection combining— composed and created by milky forms— put up and knocked down. Zak Ferguson has written verses full of the shrill cries— the secret codes— and tricks of spit spray and skeletal frames— material worth reading. Poetry as pleasure buttons— the soft tissues— the synthesis of Alcools and Anabasis— muscle." – Shane Jesse Christmass (Author of BELFIE HELL).
Zak Ferguson is an Autistic, mental health-suffering much despised entity, barely a person, just an irritable itch, on the earlobe, on the fringes of your conscious-self; whose reality consists of words, literature and the pretensions garnered from art. If you like literature that expands your perceptions of art, specifically within literature, that tests your patience, that entices, arouses, annoys, irritates, breaks into your machinations of consuming literature- try and read him; that or at least if you want to try literature that confounds, upsets, and semi-forms itself as entertainment and all such and sundry as accepted and marketed in the full-fledged market place of book-building and publication... then Zak is probably somebody you'd like to beat around the head with, said book, and tell him what a waste of time it was...
If, and this is a BIG if, this is an experience you wish to partake in, if only to get a chance to beat him publicly/privately...read his stuff. His previous publications have been, EAT YOUR KEYBOARD (no longer available) Mr. Nick (no longer available) A TASTE OF FEELING (no longer available) and his latest, most boundary pushing novel, What Mr. Wants Mr. Gets (which is readily available).
He plans to re-release his Eat Your Keyboard series in the coming future as a huge omnibus titled, THE SYSTEM COMPENDIUM, release date 2020. A TASTE OF FEELING has also been re-released, alongside its follow up, under the new title, Volatile Voices, Volatile Universe, later this year.
He exists online in some vague form. On INSTAGRAM under some name or other...and TWITTER...under another name based around his issue with sweating... He is also the Editor/Founder/Co-Head of the innovative press Sweat Drenched Press. ( www.www.sweatdrenchedpress.com)
Zak lives in the seaside town of Brighton. (He doesn't get out much)