BLUEPEPPER

PADDOCK You’ve been watching the dead sugar gum watching it patiently until you decide to cut it down then you’re all action. ...

News came today of the untimely demise of one of the true legends of Sydney bibliophilia and out-and-out ratbaggery, Bob Gould. Accordin...

You are warmly invited to the book launch of This Floating World by Libby Hart Saturday 18 June 2011 from 3.00pm Collected Works Booksho...

"A Is for a Shyness" A is for a shyness that does not speak, except in prosy rhythms, metaphor, knowing well the poet ...

You are cordially invited to join the inaugural meeting of the Clubs and Societies project at the Sydney Writers Festival. The Inaugural M...

The accomplished poet, Libby Hart, has just launched a great new on-line journal, Five Poetry. I have taken the liberty of posting her edito...

It was great to see mention made of Sydney poet Michael Dransfield in the final episode of the brilliant mini-series on the birth of Cleo Ma...

  Despite concerns to the contrary, my comment regarding the inestimable Tug Dumbly being the first poet to bring down a government in this...

Report of Collected Works "reference group"  held at COLLECTED WORKS BOOKSHOP, Saturday 19th March, 2 - 4pm This particular gro...

Writing in The Quiet If you knew me I'd be a famous man. Maybe with nothing but at least a friend if you say goodbye it...

Cloze procedure we are at the zoo when your doctor calls you talk about the lump i fill gaps from a half conversation sun be...

  Night vision I take off the clarity of the world and place it on my bedside table. No use for it with my lids pressed neatly toget...

Two Fires Poetry Competition First prize worth $1000 Closing date 1 March 2001   Two Fires Poetry Competition for poem up to 30 lines Down...

Fire in the Kerri Running like hell straight for the billabong; fire biting my arse. Pushed by devil winds, flames jump and explod...

 According to Wikipedia ....... James "Jim" Harrison (born December 11, 1937) is an American author known for his poetry, f...

Leaves in December Leaves, a few stragglers in December, just before Christmas, some nailed down crabby to ground frost, some ...

I have begun to tweet in my drive to harvest as much good poetry for Bluepepper as is humanly possible for an aging misanthr...

THE HAIRCUT I like men I like the masculine - Peggy Lee It's not the mirror I       despise  but the mist as  hard as a ...

Siphon There is a voice coming down the tube. I want to say tunnel but even with my eyes only half open, I can see it would be too...

Apart from the resources boom of the past half-century, it would appear my country's greatest export, since Australia Square first punc...