. . . 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Step into and experience in person the world of mental institutions and madness.The New Asylum is the third volume in a series of free-verse poetry anthologies and personal memoirs from Australian author Frank Prem (Small Town Kid, Devil In The Wind).These stories are an exposé of life in the public psychiatric system, spanning five decades and describing sometimes graphically, sometimes ironically, often poignantly, and always honestly, a search for meaning in extraordinar...

nowis gonenowis gonenow . . .~French philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored thenature of time, in the context of an argument amongst philosophers, in two books - Intuition of e Instant, and The Dialectic of Duration.In The Kiss Reverberant, Frank Prem interpretsBachelard's explorations of the poetic element time,decanting the vivid imagery contained within thephilosopher's work into new and accessible free vers...

I make this winewith subtle waterpick -one by one -the stars to treadFrench philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored the philosophic and poetic values of earth in two books - Earth and Reveries of Repose, and Earth and Reveries of Will.In Real Weight Frank Prem interprets Bachelard's explorations of the poetic element earth, decanting the vivid imagery contained within the philosopher's work into new and accessible free verse poetic storytelling...

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...

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...

A Specialist at The Recycled Heart is free verse poetry and storytelling focused on the Speculative Fiction (SF) genre. The genre of What If . . . writing that encompasses fantasy and Sci fi and other forms within its warm embrace.. What is the sound of the wind - of a sigh - on Mars?. What does an abandoned artificial life form - an AI - contemplate in a lonely existence in far outer space. Why was it made, if only to be abandoned.. Is it possible to go fishing to ...

when he turned the hourglassthe sand ran upas he knew it woulddeep contemplationso often turns lifeon its head~The French philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored the philosophic and poetic values of flame and fire in three books - The Psychoanalysis of Fire, The Flame of a Candle, and the unfinished Fragments of a Poetics of Fire.In A Cleansing Flame, Frank Prem interprets Bachelard's explorations...

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