Black Pepper logo
 BLACK PEPPER        
  blackpepperpublishing.com

  
   bpepper@blackpepperpublishing.com
   
ONLINE PURCHASE AVAILABLE
Join the Black Pepper email list
     
Wimmera Homer Rieth cover  This is the bush Banjo Paterson was never like this
 Australia's first major epic poem
 Wimmera by Homer Rieth
 
TO BE FEATURED ON ABC1 LANDLINE
Sunday Nov 8 at noon, Monday Nov 9 at 11am
and ABC2 on Monday Nov 9 at 9 am

  
       In its spiritual vision, it is reminiscent of the
       cosmic speculations of 
Wordsworth and Whitman
             Justin Clemens, University of Melbourne
 
       An impressive achievement, and a remarkable piece of work
             Paul Kane, Vassar College
 
       Wimmera is quite extraordinary
             Geoffrey Lehmann, The Weekend Australian, 7 November 2009

History of the Day Stephen Edgar coverHistory of the Day by Stephen Edgar
    author of Other Summers
 
His poems are more sheerly beautiful from moment to moment than those of any other modern poet I can think of
     Clive James, Times Literary Supplement
  
There is nothing else like it in contemporary Australian poetry
     Paul Hetherington, Australian Book Review          
                        The Colony Graham Henderson coverFuel Andrew Sant coverDon't Ever Let Them Get You! coverIn the Cleft of the Rock Deborah Masel
  
The printing of a masterpiece Alan Loney coverFolly and Grief Jennifer Harrison coverOther Summers Stephen Edgar coverNebuchadnezzar Shelton Lea coverBlueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe Wayne Macauley cover
                                                     The Age Pick of the Week                             The Age Pick of the Week

BLACK PEPPER PICK OF THE MONTH
    
Barry Klemm Running Dogs cover
  BARRY KLEMM’S CLASSIC VIETNAM WAR NOVEL
  RUNNING DOGS (2000)

  A terrible and powerful reading experience
      Sydney Morning Herald

     
                            
 
                                                                                                                  

 
FORTHCOMING
Colombine, New and Selected Poems
Jennifer Harrison
Rockling King
Hugh Tolhurst
Other Stories
Wayne Macauley
Anne of the Iron Door
Alan Loney
The Gentle Art of Tossing
Alan Cornell
This Woman
Adrienne Eberhard
NEWS
MELBOURNE AUNCH HELD FOR HOMER RIETH’S WIMMERA
Dr Brian Edwards launched the book, declaring it ‘An historical day in Austrlian literary history'.
CONTACT
NEW

ALL PUBLICATIONS
BROWSE FROM A-Z BY TITLE
BROWSE FROM A-Z BY AUTHOR
TITLES BY YEAR
OPINION
Mind, Phrase and Fable
Jennifer Harrison reflects on fable in poetry, ancient and contemporary, and on her book Folly & Grief
LINKS
SUBMISSIONS POLICY
HISTORY

 

Other Summers
Stephen Edgar
 
    
Some of the finest lyric poetry  
    
to have been written
    anywhere in recent times
        Gregory Kratzmann ABR

The printing of a masterpiece
Alan Loney
 
    This gem of a book...
    reminiscent of writers such as
    Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco
        Fiona Capp The Age


The Invention of Everyday Life
Nicolette Stasko
 
    As graceful and compelling
    as Woolf’s early 20th-century
    experiment with consciousness
        Stella Clarke The Australian
  Made with Nvu 
   
Payments by PayPal