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Draw a Person in the Rain (P-I-R) Test Who is this person? Gene Kelly. How old is he? At the third stroke, he'll be 42. What's hi...

Exodus some will say they have waited an eternity get out the good silver polished daily their hope chests spilling over with... well...well...

Chinese New Year Tonight I want to hear heartache. I am out of synch, I know. It still may come though. Ah, say some...

Come on guys, where are you? The blog is receiving its fair share of visitors, but nary a submission since last year. If you don't start...

"No anger inside means no enemy outside." - Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche

Many of you from beyond these gilded shores may be wondering what the hell is going on in Sydney at the moment. Well, you're not alone. ...

Yes, you read right. One of Australia's most brilliant and daring poets, MTC Cronin, has just released a collection of new and selected ...

I have pasted in a review of an intriguing new work by American poet John Hospodka below. Just click on the Post heading and follow the link...

Bluepepper is setting up a bookshop with an emphasis on self-published works of poetry and titles from small presses. A pay pal link has bee...

Thankyou Brian Lara. Not just for accepting some questionable umpiring decisions with all the style and grace the cricketing public has come...

BLUEPEPPER is currently seeking submissions of poetry, reviews and essays on a wide range of literary and cultural topics. Previously publis...

Being the avid barfly that I am (no, that is not an oxymoron), I find it interesting that just as the "Howard mandate" presses in ...

David Musgrave gets our vote this week for his launch of Puncher & Wattman, a new poetry publisher. Funded with prize money, savings and...

In this world of short attention spans the need to move through a narrative at a fast pace has delivered us the Verse Novel. Note - Dorothy...

Sikozu What little is left of the candle before it births only smoke. The rooftop across the street, the Cutty Sark billboard, like the stag...

Review of Peninsula, Selected Poems by Trevor Hewett These are poems about the magic of nature, or more specifically about places. In fact...

In another piece of utterly irresponsible journalism, the Sydney Morning Herald did its best to whip the populace into a frenzy yesterday af...

Matters of State i You bellicose raucous give strange adapted words & raise a glass You demand an upstanding audience that race thr...

On the subject of war, terror and the death of literacy, today marks the 87th anniversary of the death of the English poet Wilfred Owen. If ...

Was a short, plaintive work written by Hermann Hesse during the darkest days of the First World War. It echoed many other writers and thinke...