This collection of fantasy stories will transport you to magical destinations, each brimming with unique twists, from sword and sorcery to unearthly tales and legends. The anthology includes high fantasy, magical realism and even paranormal mystery. There's sure to be something for everyone.*Rainforest Writing Retreat is an annual event attended by up to seventy writers who enjoy three days of intense masterclasses presented by industry experts on top of a mountain in the beautiful...

PILGRIM is an illustrated collection of small wisdoms offered to illuminate the journey and to make sense, if possible, of the load that must be carried by all travellers.Seeking the balance between light and its many shades of opposition is an eternal quest.

Life is changing in the Bakery.The Beechworth Bakery Bears are still just as friendly and eager to please as ever.But, where is Frank-Bear?He does not come in to see them as often as before and they miss him.They would love to tell you about their lives now, and how they wait for their best friend Frank-Bear to visit.Step back into the bakery and find out what is happening in the world of The Beechworth Bakery Bears.

there is a me shaped spaceright here where I standthere was nothing beforethere will be nothing when I leaveFrench philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored the philosophic and poetic values of space in his masterwork, The Poetics of Space.In A Choir of Whispers Frank Prem interprets Bachelard's explorations of the poetic quasi-element space, decanting the vivid imagery contained in the philosopher's work into new and accessible free verse poetic storytel...

All day long I have been workingNow I am tired.I call: "Where are you?"But there is only the oak tree rustling in the wind . . .from Madonna of the Evening FlowersDrawing on the phrasing of the early 20th Century Amy Lowell poem Madonna of the Evening Flowers (above) Frank Prem has produced a collection of personal and interpersonal love poems written, as always, in the unique style that allows every reader to relate.Prem's interpretations breath...

. . . and at home we sayif it's yellowlet it mellowif it's brownflush it on down . . .~Two natural disasters, each on a massive scale, a decade and a half apart.One is the slow withering that desiccates the soul by increments, the other a raging series of fires burning half a continent in a mad rush of smoke and flame and wind.Two un-natural disasters, aided and abetted by the relentless destruction of the land we live in and ...

Pebbles to Poems is a sample pack of Frank Prem's free-verse poetry and storytelling published between 2018 and 2020. Extracts from six collections, ranging through memoir, and wildfire though to contemporary love poetry.Small Town Kid - growing up in a rural Australian town during the 1960s and 70s.Devil In The Wind - the stories of victims and survivors of the 2009 Black Saturday wildfires in Australia.The New Asylum - an experience of public psychiatry in Austral...

swimdamn youbecomeof-the-sandyour appointed taskis to be huntedby meI demandyou swim~Ahab the mariner and Moby the white whale inhabit a desert ocean together. One of them is dying.Inspired by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Frank Prem takes readers on a spiritual voyage through uncharted oceans. A journey of the soul that can only end through transformation.~thisis the voice

I don't knowwhat I knowfor sureI don't knowwhatI do not know~This poetry collection is the outcome of a week-long workshop retreat in 2024 - Cries From The Anthropocene - attended by creatives, academics, and researchers who came together in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, to discuss, consider and respond to what they understood and what they might do in response to the parlous state...

Who is Ida Pender? Is she the elderly woman - Ida-Spider - rumoured to be resident in a 1970's Mental Asylum?Is she Squizzy Taylor's teenaged gangster moll of the roaring 1920's in Melbourne? The woman the police declared had shapely legs? She is Ida. The Jazz Baby.Frank Prem explores the story of Ida Pender, largely forgotten now, but once the notorious associate of a 1920s Melbourne gnagster. From the young girl sneaking out of her bedroom window to go dancing at the Pala...

there isa lazy rayof sunshine lying across the pagesof a philosophyPersonal love. A love of being and being one with all. A search for the essence of love.These are themes explored in Alive Is What You Feel (A Love Poetry Trilogy).the susurrations singto their gentlingby a breezeBuilding on seminal work by three wonderful poets of the past (Amy Lowell, Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot), this omnibus collection is ...

The Garden Black poetry collection is a venture into fantasy and speculative fiction based on the dual themes of rain forest and fantasy.. The rainforest becomes a desert, and then the sea.. A man in a satellite orbits the earth while playing his violin and pondering. A girl gazes up at the passing light and dances.. Od Ovo - a youth who is from here, raises the dust of frustrated boredom on a mining asteroid, and cannot believe traveller tales of places where water...