Black Pepper publishing


Black Pepper is an independent Australian publishing house founded by Kevin Pearson and Gail Hannah in 1995 specializing in Australian poetry and fiction. Its innovative titles have won critical acclaim.

Publication

In 1995 it published the first poetry collection by Jennifer Harrison, Michelangelo’s Prisoners. It has also published her later poetry including Cabramatta/Cudbmirrah, Dear B , Folly & Grief and Colombine, New & Selected Poems . Amongst a number of other poetry titles are: Jordie Albiston’s ficto-historical Botany Bay Document; A Poetical History of the Women of Botany Bay and The Hanging of Jean Lee, John Anderson’s eco-poetry, the forest set out like the night and dream poems, the shadow’s keep, Alison Croggon’s The Blue Gate , two poetry collections by Australian playwright Jack Hibberd, English/Gaelic poetry by Irish Louis de Paor, works by K.F. Pearson and Andrew Sant, including Andrew Sant’s Tremors; New and Selected Poems, Shelton Lea’s final poetry collection, Nebuchadnezzar, Emma Lew’s first collection, The Wild Reply , Adrienne Eberhard’s Agamemnon’s Poppies and Jane, Lady Franklin, four collections by the formalist poet Stephen Edgar, Other Summers, History of the Day, Eldershaw and Exhibits of the Sun, and Homer Rieth’s epic poem Wimmera .
In novels, Black Pepper has published a number of works including those of Phil Leask, Alan Wearne, Alison Croggon’s Navigatio, Barry Klemm’s Vietnam War novel, Running Dogs, Wayne Macauley's Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe, Caravan Story and Other Stories , David Cohen’s Fear of Tennis, Nicolette Stasko’s episodic The Invention of Everyday Life, Susan Hancock's The Peastick Girl and Alan Gould's The Poets' Stairwell.
Other works published have included a book of plays by Daniel Keene, To Whom It May Concern and other plays, short fictions by Graham Henderson and the commentary by Alan Loney, The printing of a masterpiece.
Black Pepper is a member of SPN ,.