my throat feels tightthe back of my headseems nasal(cough) . . .~2020 arrived like a gut punch.Australia burned all through that summer, and before the smoke had cleared a new disaster swept in — Covid 19. Masks became part of daily life, borders were closed, and Victoria entered the first of seven lockdowns. Movement, work, and connection with other people were suddenly uncertain.Frank Prem had already been journalling the wildfires. ...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

. . . 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 ...

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 ...

he countsas a year goes bymeasures the timein heartbeats. . .The Cielonaut is lost in the vastness of space.He is alone and his journey has only one direction, and no destination.He will travel between stars until he reaches an end that he cannot see, or imagine.The Cielonaut will travel forever, exploring the far reaches of a very personal emotional cosmos.. . .the gradualrearrangement of stars...

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...