Frank Prem Book Catalogue

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Discover poetry, picture books, memoir, and more — grouped by series for easy exploration.

A Poetry Archive

A Poetry Archive – Volume 1 (ePub)

The beginning of a lifelong poetic journey — raw, reflective, and unfiltered.

A Poetry Archive – Volume 2 (ePub)

Building on early insights with sharper voice and focusing on music, art and magic.

A Poetry Archive – Volume 3 (ePub)

Themes of connection, place, and personal mythology take centre stage.

A Poetry Archive – Volume 4 (ePub)

A reflective turn inward — poetry of memory, loss, and private truths.

A Poetry Archive – Volume 5 (ePub)

New ground explored with mature form and a growing philosophical edge.

A Poetry Archive – Archive Volume 6 (ePub)

The sixth volume in an evolving collection of free verse poetry reflecting the shifting terrain of a writer’s voice and times.

Memoir

Small Town Kid

A memoir in free verse capturing the essence of growing up in a small Australian town during the 1960s and 70s.

The New Asylum

A raw, insider’s memoir in poetry chronicling decades of experience inside the psychiatric system — both professional and deeply personal.

Pebbles to Poems

A curated introduction to Frank Prem’s poetry, drawing on six collections and offering insight into the experiences that shaped his writing journey.

Picture Poetry Series

Pilgrim: Volume 1

A collection of deeply philosophical poems exploring themes of journey and discovery, illuminated with hand-drawn illustrations.

a few places near home

A picture poetry book capturing intimate, everyday landscapes through vivid verse and evocative imagery.

A Lake Sambell Walk

A lyrical journey around Lake Sambell in Beechworth, weaving natural beauty and reflective poetry in a compact picture book format.

Children’s Picture Books

The Beechworth Bakery Bears (Softcover)

A children’s picture book featuring the Beechworth Bakery Bears telling stories of life in the bakery.

Waiting for Frank-Bear (Softcover)

A children’s picture book in which the Beechworth Bakery Bears tell about how life in the bakery changed during the Covid epidemic.

On Allium Avenue (Fixed Layout PDF)

Discover the backyard’s hidden residents in with a children’s picture-poetry book, beautifully illustrated in Fixed Layout EPUB and PDF editions.

Bachelard Interpreted

A Choir of Whispers (ePub)

An introspective collection exploring the resonance of sound and silence through poetic response to Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space.

A Cleansing Flame (ePub)

A meditative sequence of poems reflecting on the symbolic and transformative power of fire, inspired by Bachelard’s elemental philosophy.

Real Weight (ePub)

A Bachelard inspired delving into the grounding force of earth, this collection brings the density of lived experience to the surface in poetic form.

A Flight Of Ideas (ePub)

Light, air, and imagination intertwine in this volume that takes flight from Bachelard’s explorations of the airy element and dreaming mind.

An Ocean of Purity (ePub)

the poet’s meditative engagement the nature of flow and of ebb—An Ocean of Purity draws inspiration from the philosophy of Gaston Bachelard.

Speculative Poetry

The Cielonaut (ePub)

A poetic voyage through space and imagination, taking inspiration from NASA imagery and the boundless reach of human curiosity.

The Garden Black (ePub)

Dark, surreal and quietly provocative, this collection sows metaphor and mystery in a poet’s vision of strange earth.

A Specialist At The Recycled Heart (ePub)

A lyrical meditation on emotional salvage and repair, where memory and technology intersect in speculative verse.

A Love Poetry Trilogy

Walk Away Silver Heart

Poetry of parting and survival, where the ache of love lost is tempered by dignity and enduring grace, inspired by the work of Amy Lowell.

A Kiss for the Worthy

Poetry of an expansive love that takes in the self and wider world it occupies. Inspired by the work of Walt Whitman.

Rescue and Redemption

Poems of longing and healing that explore the power of love to rescue us — and redeem what was thought lost. Inspired by the work of T. S. Eliot.

Alive Is What You Feel (ePub)

The Omnibus Edition of A Love Poetry Trilogy, bringing together love poems inspired by three of the great poets – Lowell, Whitman and Eliot.

Natural Disasters

SMALL Change (ePub)

A poetic reckoning with the Anthropocene, exploring the quiet devastations of climate change and humanity’s footprint on a fragile world.

Devil In The Wind

Devil In The Wind (ePub)

A visceral poetic response to the Black Saturday bushfires — haunting, immediate, and deeply personal.

Of Drought and Fire (ePub)

This collection captures the brutal rhythms of an Australian land in crisis — where parched earth and naked flame shape every line.

War and Conflict

From Volyn To Kherson

From Volyn To Kherson (ePub)

A raw poetic response to the first nine weeks of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, tracing personal and collective trauma across a shifting front line.

Sheep On The Somme (Hardcover)

Sheep On The Somme (Softcover)

Poetry and historical images converge in this poignant meditation on the Western Front during WWI — where naive innocence meets industrialised war.

Free Verse

White Whale (ePub)

A lyrical wrestling with obsession, myth and inner storms — Moby Dick refracted through a personal poetic lens.

Pebbles to Poems

Pebbles to Poems draws from six of Frank Prem’s poetry collections into a compelling introduction to his distinctive free verse style.

Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby

Poetry and archival clippings combine to tell the true-crime story of a girl who becomes a gangster’s girl, accomplice and wife. Ida Pender: The Jazz Baby.

Herja, Devastation

A collaborative poetic dive into myth, violence, and aftermath — where Herja, Norse goddess of ruin, leaves no soul untouched.

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