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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

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  Geoffrey Lehmann
  The Weekend Australian, November 2009
     
Wimmera Homer Rieth coverThis is the bush
Banjo Paterson was never like this Australia's first major epic poem
     
Wimmera by Homer Rieth
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The Landline website has the show available
on its Archive (February 2010) under the title "Homer's Epic"

Homer Rieth author of Wimmera "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 haunted
plains/ 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 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
     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)

NEW TITLES

Colombine New & Selected Jennifer Harrison cover
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 cover  
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 cover 
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
 
 
 
The Colony Graham Henderson coverFuel Andrew Sant coverDon't Ever Let Them Get You! coverIn the Cleft of the Rock Deborah Masel

Posing in Vast Spaces Peter Murk coverFear of Tennis David Cohen coverCaravan Story Wayne Macauley coverThe Invention of Everyday Life Nicolette Stasko cover
The Age and SMH Pick of the WeekThe Age Pick of the WeekThe Age Pick of the WeekThe Age Pick of the Week
  

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 AUGUST 2010
    
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  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)
                                                                                                  
    
FORTHCOMING
Anne of the Iron Door
Alan Loney
The Gentle Art of Tossing
Alan Cornell
This Woman
Adrienne Eberhard
Cairo Paris Melbourne
Maher Abou Elsaoud
The Red Queen and the Peastick Girl
Susan Hancock
60 Motets
Homer Rieth
NEWS
JACK HIBBERD'S POETRY FEATURED ON RADIO NATIONAL'S POETICA, 21 AUGUST, 3PM (REPEATED ON 26th, 3PM)
AND 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   
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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
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