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PEPPER blackpepperpublishing.com bpepper  blackpepperpublishing.comONLINE PURCHASE AVAILABLE Black Pepper authors Homer Rieth, Jennifer Harrison, Wayne Macauley and Hugh Tolhurst featured at the 2010 Melbourne Writers Festival — For their new titles click here Wimmera was shortlisted for
The Age Poetry Book of the Year 2010 |
 Black Pepper is one of the livelier new houses that has sprung up after the large publishers decided to exit poetry publishing Geoffrey Lehmann The Weekend Australian, November 2009 |
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Wimmera by Homer Rieth $35 by direct order (including postage & handling) press here to pay by PayPal - or send cheque payment to Black Pepper Publishing 403 St Georges Rd, North Fitzroy VIC 3068 AS FEATURED ON ABC1 LANDLINE OVER 1,200 COPIES SOLD The Landline website has the show available on its Archive (February 2010) under the title "Homer's Epic"  "Homer
Rieth's 359-page epic sequence dizzyingly gobbles up the landscape with
its catalogues of towns and surnames, jamming information and history
into a weird semi-religious commemoration of place: 'Chanceless ghosts
wander the hauntedplains/ looking for a breach in a dog-and -post fence... walking sublunary into a Wimmera mirage.' Lines hurtle down the centre of each page with descriptions and remembered tales rushing into each other in densely decorative, often repetitive language bunched with Australianisms: 'The water drags its feet at Litchfield/ it's a Mallee mood he says/ squinting at the sun/ they can all go to blazes.'" Gig Ryan's citation for Wimmera as a shortlisted title for The Age Poetry Book of the Year 2010. Photo: Homer Rieth, 2010 One of Australia's finest poets Tim Lee, ABC Landline 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 Grand in conception and impressively detailed in execution, this is a significant achievement indeed, and a major contribution to Australian literature Brian Edwards, Australian Book Review, December 2009  History of the Day by Stephen Edgarauthor of Other Summers His poems are more sheerly beautiful from moment to moment than those of any other modern poet Clive James, Times Literary Supplement Here is a work which dares, in a postmodern, Microsoft era, to entertain serious aesthetic contemplations Michelle Cahill, Mascara Literary Review On the short list of the best living practitioners of verse, rhymed or blank Joshua Mehigan, Poetry (Chicago)  Colombine, New & Selected Jennifer Harrison ISBN 9781876044657 RRPAUD $28.95 POETRY Colombine unusually contains two sets of ravishing new poems, the title sequence and another called Fugue. The poems selected from her previous collections, from the Anne Elder Award-winning Michelangelo's Prisoners to her fourth book, Folly & Grief, illustrate the depth of her talent. Jennifer Harrison is astonishing. She comes from a place that was previously unknown Alan Loney  Other Stories Wayne Macauley ISBN 9781876044664 RRPAUD $26.95 FICTION From the acclaimed novelist and winner of The Age Short Story Competition comes his much-awaited collection of short fictions. He makes the familiar seem eerie, like a Jeffrey Smart painting. In these satirical tales and fables of the outer suburban hinterland he imaginatively explores the margins of our culture. For anyone who thrills to a hypnotic prose style and incisive social satire, I would urge you to discover his work Martin Shaw, Readings Monthly  Rockling King Hugh Tolhurst ISBN 9781876044671 RRPAUD $25.95 POETRY Like his first book, Filth and Other Poems, Rockling King should be kept out of reach of children. This bravura collection is profoundly sane, philosophical (in the sense of corrupting the minds of the young), at times political and often acutely witty poems. It continues his conversational embrace of inner city culture and features Classical (but post-barbarian in technique) Adam Aitken, The Australian's Review of Books          
 BLACK PEPPER PICK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2010  KIRSTY SANGSTER'S POETRY COLLECTION Midden Places (2006) the head stones grow wild here and the stained glass angels are propelled tenderly on by the rain which makes them glow and wriggle their toes but only when they are on their own which they mostly are because this is a midden place; all thrown away in a green corner next to the motorway. from 'Midden' Unlike quite a lot of what passes for free verse these days, Sangster’s has a real energy and cumulative impact, reminiscent of the psalms of the 1611 Bible where free verse in English started. Geoff Page, The Book Show (Radio National)
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FORTHCOMING Anne of the Iron Door
NEWSThe Gentle Art of Tossing Alan Cornell
This WomanAdrienne Eberhard Cairo Paris MelbourneMaher Abou Elsaoud
The Red Queen and the Peastick Girl60 Motets JACK HIBBERD'S POETRY FEATURED ON RADIO NATIONAL'S POETICA, 21 AUGUST, 3PM (REPEATED ON 26th, 3PM)
CONTACT DETAILSAND PODCAST HOMER RIETH SHORTLISTED FOR THE AGE POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2010 AND THE BLAKE POETRY PRIZE 2010 STEPHEN EDGAR TO FEATURE AT THE SYDNEY RHIZOMIC POETRY PARTY 25 AUGUST THE 2010 MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL IS TO FEATURE JENNIFER HARRISON, WAYNE MACAULEY AND HOMER RIETH - FOR DETAILS CLICK HERE ADRIENNE EBERHARD’S POEMS FEATURE IN TRANSLATION ON NEW FRENCH AUDIO LITERATURE SITE SECOUSSE ANDREW SANT POEM FEATURES IN ELIZABETH BISHOP'S HOUSE FOR HER CENTENARY NEW ALL PUBLICATIONS BROWSE FROM A-Z BY TITLE BROWSE FROM A-Z BY AUTHOR TITLES BY YEAR OPINION Mind, Phrase and Fable
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Jennifer Harrison reflects on fable in poetry, ancient and contemporary, and on her book Folly & Grief
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 |
