Don't Be So...

First edition. Square 8vo. 167 pp. Publisher's black cloth, title blind stamped to spine and front; black endpapers. 27 colour & b/w illustrations by Damien Hirst. Foreword by fellow writer and artist, Harland Miller. Dustwrapper printed in brown, grey-white and black [still shrink wrapped].

Author's first poetry collection. A livre d'artiste collaboration between Fryer and the enfant terrible of the British art scene, Damien Hirst. Drinking, fooling with toxic substances, loving and losing and loving again, railing against authority, these are but part of Don't Be So.... Fryer is best known as a visual artist who employs electronic media and sculpture to create installation pieces in unusual exhibition sites. "I do find it a bit embarrassing to talk about the writing of poems. I remember my first effort at primary school; I was nine. It was a cheerful composition entitled "The End of the World". Funnily enough I still know it by heart".