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Peepal Tree Press
IndustryBook Publishing
Founded1985; 39 years ago (1985)
FounderJeremy Poynting
Headquarters
Leeds, Yorkshire
,
England
Key people
Jeremy Poynting, Hannah Bannister, Kwame Dawes, Jacob Ross, Dorothea Smartt, Kadija Sesay, Adam Lowe (writer)
Number of employees
2 full-time, 9 part-time or freelance
Websitewww.peepaltreepress.com

Peepal Tree Press is a publisher based in Leeds, England which publishes Caribbean, Black British, and South Asian fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama and academic books.[1][2][3] Poet Kwame Dawes has said, "Peepal Tree Press’s position as the leading publisher of Caribbean literature, and especially of Caribbean poetry, is unassailable."[4]

Peepal Tree publishes around 20 books a year, mainly from the Caribbean and its diasporas.[5] Caribbean Beat has called it a "publishing lifeline" for Caribbean writers.[6] In the UK, the press is noted for its literary merit and success with literary prizes,[7][8][9] and its role in supporting and publishing Black British and British Asian writers.[10]

Overview[edit]

Peepal Tree Press was first conceived in 1984, after a paper shortage in Guyana halted production of new books in the region. It was officially founded in 1985, and was named after the sacred peepal trees transplanted to the Caribbean with Indian indentured labourers, after founder Jeremy Poynting heard a story of workers gathering under the tree to tell stories.[11] The Guyana Chronicle has said, "Peepal Tree Press is responsible, in a major way, for the burgeoning of Guyanese Literature".[12]

The press is based in Yorkshire, part of the growing independent publishing sector outside London,[7][8][9] at 17 King's Avenue, in a residential part of Burley, "a rundown, multicultural part of Leeds".[13][14] Its work is part-funded by Arts Council England[15] and was included in their 2011, 2014, 2018 and 2023 National Portfolios (prior to this, the company was a Regularly Funded Organisation from 2006).[16][17] Peepal Tree was initially one of only two publishers of primarily Black-interest titles funded by the Arts Council.[18]

Peepal Tree Press has published more than 450 titles, and maintains a commitment to keeping them in print.[19][3] The focus of Peepal Tree Press is "on what George Lamming calls the Caribbean nation, wherever it is in the world",[11] though the company is also concerned with Black British writing and South Asian writers of British or Caribbean descent.[20] The list features new writers and established voices, as well as posthumous work from Caribbean writers such as Mahadai Das, Neville Dawes, Anthony McNeill, and Gordon Rohlehr.[21][3] The press' stated approach is to publish (and republish) "Not best sellers, but long sellers".[21] This remit includes translations of French, Spanish and Dutch Caribbean writers, as well as English-language writers.[21]

Peepal Tree Press has published, in various forms, such writers as Roger Robinson, Bernardine Evaristo, Anthony Kellman, Kwame Dawes, Christian Campbell, Jacob Ross, Kei Miller,[22] Christine Craig, Opal Palmer Adisa, Angela Barry, Ishion Hutchinson, Dorothea Smartt,[23] Alecia McKenzie, Una Marson, Shivanee Ramlochan, Jack Mapanje, Patience Agbabi, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Daljit Nagra, Grace Nichols, Lemn Sissay, John Agard, Vahni Anthony Ezekiel Capildeo, Raymond Antrobus, Keith Jarrett, Rishi Dastidar, Gemma Weekes, Pete Kalu, Maggie Harris, Courttia Newland, Jackie Kay, Jan Lowe Shinebourne, and Kamau Brathwaite.[24][25][26]

History[edit]

After World War II, UK publishers such as Heinemann, Longman and Faber developed various English-language African, Caribbean and Asian writers series. In 1970, James Currey and Heinemann Educational Books (HEB) launched the Caribbean Writers Series to republish notable Caribbean writers, modelled on its earlier African Writers Series (1957) and Writing in Asia Series (1966).[27][28][29] The UK was often considered better placed to sell to places such as the Caribbean because of its "ex-colonial" profile. These were academic lists, and so the books were often expected to be representative of a nation or culture.[30][31]

In the mid-60s, Peepal Tree Press' founder Jeremy Poynting befriended Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at the University of Leeds, who inspired his interest in Caribbean literature. At that point a lecturer in further education and a trade unionist, this friendship led Poynting to pursue a PhD in Caribbean literature. He first visited the region in 1976 as part of his research.[11][19]

Around this time, Poynting also met John La Rose and Sarah White at New Beacon Books, who were involved in the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) and organised the International Book Fair of Black, Radical and Third World Books with Jessica Huntley of Bogle-L’Overture Publications. He would also become a regular contributor to Wasafiri.[18] These relationships would, Poynting says, lay the foundation and inspiration for what would become Peepal Tree Press.[20]

By the 1980s, the Caribbean titles published in the UK were already at risk, as marketing to overseas audiences was considered unprofitable.[32] Heinemann, for instance, was acquired by British Tyre & Rubber, which sold its Social Sciences list to Gower Press in Aldershot. Gower Press subsequently cancelled the Caribbean World Series in 1984.[31]

That same year, while visiting Guyana, Poynting saw local writer Rooplall Monar acting out some of his stories in the ruins of the Lusignan sugar estate.[12] Forbes Burnham's authoritarian regime had led to a paper shortage in the country, so publishing opportunities in Guyana were slim. When Monar despaired that they would never see print, Poynting decided to publish the stories back in the UK.[20][12]

In 1985, Poynting printed Monar's Backdam People at Thomas Danby College, where he worked. Though publishers like Heinemann and Longman had moved away from Caribbean books,[33][31] this first title nevertheless sold out its modest print run of 400 at the International Book Fair of Black, Radical and Third World Books.[20][11]

The name chosen for the new press was intended both as a pun (as a homophone for "people") and as a symbol of the diaspora. It is named for the holy bodhi tree, brought as seeds by indentured Hindu workers to the Caribbean, where it became nativised. The tree thus represents something dispersed which sets down roots in a new location. At the time, Indians in some parts of the Caribbean were also politically and socially marginalised, so the name was also a political reminder of the Caribbean's diversity.[11][12][6]

With the help of his son, Poynting moved production to his home garage, using a second-hand Rotaprint offset printer held together with an elastic band and a folding machine paid for with an Arts Council grant (in their 1991/2 funding cycle).[12][18] Sales were largely via mail order, book fairs and independent bookshops (such as New Beacon) in the UK and Caribbean, but prices were low and the quality of books remained high.[34][20][18] Despite one local Caribbean bookseller leaving the region with her unpaid debts, the press was able to continue.[20][11] Eventually Poynting moved operations to a property at 17 King's Avenue in Burley.[35][6]

After the Arts Council offered him a subsequent development grant in their 1992/3 funding cycle,[18] Poynting went part-time in his job at Thomas Danby, producing books with the remainder of his week. Peepal Tree also received a grant from the Centre for Research in Asian Migration at the University of Warwick (CRAM). To subsidise the literary publishing, Poynting took on commercial print jobs.[6][34]

In 1994, Hannah Bannister joined the company, initially as an intern, helping to expand the business and becoming its Operations Manager.[36] That year, the press also published Kwame Dawes' debut poetry collection, Progeny of Air. Dawes had submitted to the press without seeing any of its books, based on the recommendation of Edward Baugh. Although Dawes' Resisting the Anomie was written and contracted first, Peepal Tree's small list, team of two, and on-site printer meant they could produce Progeny of Air faster than Fredericton could publish Dawes' first book. Dawes was pleased with how thorough Poynting's editing was and his commitment to publishing Caribbean writers, not just Caribbean books. He decided to work with Peepal Tree for his future books.[37]

1994 also saw the publication of Bernardine Evaristo's debut, a poetry collection called Island of Abraham.[38][39]

In 1995, a small group of business-minded friends and supporters, including Caribbean poets Ian McDonald and Ralph Thompson, helped turn the press into a limited company.[5][40]

In 1996, Peepal Tree published writer and school teacher Beryl Gilroy's In Praise of Love and Children, which she had written in the 1960s but had struggled to get published. The press would go on to publish all her subsequent work.[41]

In 2006, Peepal Tree became one of the Arts Council's Regularly Funded Organisations. With an increased budget, Kwame Dawes came onboard as a guest editor.[6]

In 2009 the press launched the Caribbean Modern Classics Series, which restores to print important books from the 1950s onwards, such as Edgar Mittelholzer's My Bones and My Flute,[25] George Lamming's Water with Berries,[26] Una Marson's Selected Poems[42] and Seepersad Naipaul's Gurudeva and Other Indian Tales.[19]

By 2010, due to advances in digital printing, the press was able to completely cease its print activities and focus more on its editorial and publishing work. To support this expanded work, Kwame Dawes took a permanent role as associate poetry editor, while novelist Jacob Ross joined the press as associate fiction editor. Poet Adam Lowe also joined the press, on an Arts Council placement, handling social media and publicity.[43][36] Echoing Dawes' relationship with the press, though in reverse, both Ross and Lowe would also go on to be published by Peepal Tree.[44][45]

Since expanding, Peepal Tree has been involved in a number of partnerships. These include partnering with the Geraldine Connor Foundation on Windrush learning resources;[23] Comma Press, And Other Stories and Dead Ink on the Northern Fiction Alliance;[9][46] the Leeds Soroptimists and Ilkley Literature Festival for the SI Leeds Literary Prize; and Akashic Books, the Bocas LitFest, the Commonwealth Foundation and the British Council on CaribLit.[47][48]

In 2020, Peepal Tree published academic Corinne Fowler's Green Unpleasant Land, which was selected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021.[49] The book attracted controversy from the Conservative Party's Common Sense Group and Restore Trust for exploring connections between the British countryside and the empire.[50] This was part of a wider campaign against the National Trust's Colonial Countryside project.[51][52]

Impact[edit]

Today, Peepal Tree continues to produce books in the UK for the Caribbean market, because of the challenges involved in producing and distributing the books within the region.[20][6][53] It has republished many out of print Caribbean books from the 1950s onwards as part of its Caribbean Modern Classics series. Most of these books were only available second-hand at collectors' prices, if at all.[19][54]

Peepal Tree has also been credited with supporting writers in the Caribbean at a time when other presses and institutions did not,[12][4][55] including helping to establish a regional press in Trinidad for Caribbean writers,[56] along with Akashic Books, called Peekash Press.[57][58] Peekash is administered locally by Bocas LitFest.[59]

According to Aliyah Ryhaan Khan, Peepal Tree is especially important in platforming Indo-Caribbean literature:

The press is dedicated to the re-issuing, preservation, and growth of Caribbean and Black British literature, with a specific and unique interest in Indo-Caribbean literature. It would not be remiss to say that most—not all, Shani Mootoo and other Canadian-Caribbean authors have other avenues open to them—Indo-Caribbean fiction and poetry that gains an international audience outside of the Caribbean does so through the efforts of this press.[60]

Peepal Tree also aims to support Black British writing in the broader sense, including British Asian writers.[9][20] The Free Verse Report (London: Spread the Word, 2005) noted that Peepal Tree was one of only a few presses who consistently published Black and Asian poets in Britain.[10] Peepal Tree describes itself as curating and preserving these literatures, saying, "We provide a welcoming home for Caribbean and Black British writing […] our writers regard Peepal Tree as a family open to multiple ideas about what being Black means."[20]

In The Guardian, Danuta Kean notes that a willingness to publish authors dropped by bigger publishers, and focus on developing authors rather than books has likely benefited small presses such as Peepal Tree Press, and allowed them to increase their readership.[9] Being able to produce smaller print runs while having lower overheads also allows them to take more risks.[46][61]

Peepal Tree published the debuts of authors such as Kwame Dawes, Kevin Jared Hosain and Bernardine Evaristo.[4][55][38] Monique Roffey, Kevin Jared Hosain, and Kwame Dawes have both spoken about the value of working with small presses, and Peepal Tree in particular, who can dedicate more time to an individual writer.[9][4][55]

Awards[edit]

In 1994, Kwame Dawes' Progeny of Air won the Forward First Book Prize.[37]

In 2011, 2/3 poetry and 3/6 fiction finalists for the 2010 Guyana Prize for Literature were published by Peepal Tree; the press won the poetry category. The same year, 4/6 poetry finalists and 3/5 fiction finalists in the Guyana Prize's wider Caribbean Award were published by the press — Peepal Tree titles won in both categories. As a result, the Guyana Chronicle named Peepal Tree as the "unannounced winner" of the awards, noting also that 35 Peepal Tree titles had made the shortlist since the Guyana Prize's inauguration in 1987, with 14 winners published by the press.[12]

In 2017, Jacob Ross won the inaugural Jhalak Prize for his novel, The Bone Readers.[62] In 2022, it was also selected as part of the Big Jubilee Read programme, celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II with books by 70 writers from across the Commonwealth.[63]

In 2018, the Bookseller noted that independent presses, including Peepal Tree, "dominated" on the Jhalak Prize list.[7]

In 2020, Roger Robinson's A Portable Paradise won the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize[64] and Ondaatje Prize.[65]

In 2021, Monique Roffey's The Mermaid of Black Conch won the 2020 Costa Novel and Book of the Year Awards.[66] It was also shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize[67] and longlisted for the The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses[68] and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.[69] The book is inspired by Taíno mythology and the African water spirit Mami Wata.[70][71]

In 2023, Mslexia noted that indie presses, including Northern indies such as Peepal Tree and Carcanet, dominated the prize lists once again.[8]

Peepal Tree and its titles have also won the Casa de la Américas Literary Award, the Clarissa Luard Award for innovation in publishing, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Felix Dennis Best First Collection Prize.[5]

CaribLit and Peekash Press[edit]

As part of the CaribLit project, Peepal Tree Press and Akashic Books established a joint imprint, Peekash Press, in 2014.[57][72][47] This saw the publication of Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean, an anthology of the Caribbean entries to the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, published simultaneously by Akashic in North America and Peepal Tree in the UK and Caribbean.[73] This was followed by two more joint publications: Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean in 2015;[74] and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, edited by Karen Lord, in 2016.[75]

Recognising the continued dearth of publishers in the Caribbean, Peekash was created to embed a local publishing house within the region, drawing upon the resources and expertise of Akashic in Brooklyn, NY and Peepal Tree in Leeds, UK. To fulfil this mission, editorial control and the daily operation of Peekash was transferred to the originators of the CaribLit project, Bocas LitFest, in 2017.[57]

HopeRoad Publishing[edit]

On 1 February 2024, Peepal Tree announced that it was partnering with HopeRoad Publishing, widening the press' focus from the Caribbean and Britain to cover Asia and Africa as well.[76] HopeRoad was set up by Rosemarie Hudson in 2010, who was joined by Pete Ayrton (founder of Serpent's Tail) in 2019. Ayrton handles the Small Axes imprint, reissuing "post-colonial classics" that were previously out of print. HopeRoad will select and edit its own books, while Peepal Tree handles production and distribution.[76]

With this new, broader remit, Peepal Tree's slogan changed from "Home of the Best in Caribbean and Black British Writing" to "Decolonising bookshelves since 1985".[77]

Inscribe[edit]

Peepal Tree Press is also recognised for Inscribe (and Young Inscribe), an imprint and writer development project which supports emerging writers of African and Asian descent in the UK.[78] Founded in 2004,[10] it is run by co-directors Kadija George and Dorothea Smartt, and has supported such writers such as Adam Lowe, Degna Stone, Khadijah Ibrahiim, Seni Seneviratne and Rommi Smith, who has been Writer-in-Residence for the Houses of Parliament, the BBC during the Commonwealth Games, BBC Music Live, the British Council at California State University in Los Angeles, and Keats House. Inscribe also runs a readers and writers group for local writers in Leeds.[79]

The Inscribe imprint, under Series Editor Kadija Sesay (pen name of Kadija George),[80] publishes anthologies of contemporary Black British and British Asian writing, such as Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry (edited by Kwame Dawes),[81] Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories (edited by Jacob Ross),[82] Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry (edited by Nii Ayikwei Parkes)[83] and Glimpse: An Anthology of Black British Speculative Fiction (edited by Leone Ross).[84][79] It also publishes chapbooks and pamphlets of Black British writers, including Sai Murray, Degna Stone, and Maya Chowdhry.[85]

New Caribbean Voices[edit]

In November 2017, Peepal Tree Press was awarded the Clarissa Luard Award for Independent Publishers, with plans announced to use the £10,000 prize money for a podcast project, New Caribbean Voices (inspired by the BBC World Service's Caribbean Voices radio show).[86][87]

The podcast launched in 2019, hosted by the British Guyanese-Grenadian poet Malika Booker and produced by Melody Triumph. The first episode featured Barbara Jenkins reading from her debut novel De Rightest Place, Shivanee Ramlochan reviewing Caribbean books, and music by Chris Campbell.[88]

SI Leeds Literary Prize[edit]

Peepal Tree Press is a founding core partner in the SI Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished fiction written by Black and Asian women resident in the UK, along with the Leeds chapter of Soroptimist International and the Ilkley Literature Festival.[48][89][90] The press also published the prize's inaugural winner, Minoli Salgado and her novel A Little Dust on the Eyes, in 2014. The book was later shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.[91]

Kit de Waal was shortlisted for the second biannual SI Leeds Literary Prize, in 2014.[92]

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