A Poetry Archive
A Poetry Archive – Volume 1
The beginning of a lifelong poetic journey — raw, reflective, and unfiltered.
A Poetry Archive – Volume 2
Building on early insights with sharper voice and focusing on music, art and magic.
A Poetry Archive – Volume 3
Themes of connection, place, and personal mythology take centre stage.
A Poetry Archive – Volume 4
A reflective turn inward — poetry of memory, loss, and private truths.
A Poetry Archive – Volume 5
New ground explored with mature form and a growing philosophical edge.
A Poetry Archive – Volume 6
Collected poems from 2014–2016, reflecting shifting terrain in voice and times.
A Poetry Archive – Volume 7
Five seasons of daily poems from 2016–2017 — reflective, place-driven work.
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 memoir of psychiatry
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 multiple collections and offering insight into the experiences that shaped his writing journey.
Picture Poetry Series
Pilgrim: Volume 1
A philosophical journey in words and images — for seekers, wanderers, and quiet thinkers alike.
A Few Places Near Home
A coffee-table picture poetry collection celebrating local beauty through photography and free verse.
A Lake Sambell Walk
A lyrical walk around Lake Sambell in Beechworth, weaving natural beauty and reflective poetry.
The Unsuspected Slums
Inner city Melbourne slums of the 1930s revisited through poetry and contemporary photographs.
Write Places Write Times
A contemplative picture poetry collection exploring towns and countryside in time and place.
Children’s Picture Books
The Beechworth Bakery Bears
A children’s picture book featuring the Beechworth Bakery Bears telling stories of life in the bakery.
Waiting for Frank-Bear
How life in the bakery changed during the Covid epidemic, told by the Beechworth Bakery Bears.
On Allium Avenue: Bugs in the Backyard
A charming children’s picture–poetry book full of illustrated backyard creatures.
Voices In The Trash
A picture–poetry exploration of discarded things and the stories they might tell.
Bachelard Interpreted
A Choir of Whispers
Free verse poetry inspired by The Poetics of Space — memory, dream, and poetic imagination.
A Flight of Ideas
Free verse poetry inspired by the poetics of Air — dreams and poetic lightness.
Monet’s Lily
A poetic exploration of time and imagination inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s philosophy.
Air To Breathe
The eighth volume in Frank Prem’s Bachelard Interpreted series continues the poet’s meditative engagement with Gaston Bachelard’s work — this time expressed through the concise clarity of Seventeen Syllable poetry.
Speculative Poetry
The Cielonaut
A speculative poetry journey in free verse exploring isolation, loss, and cosmic wonder aboard a drifting starship.
The Garden Black
A speculative poetry collection exploring rainforest, myth and fantasy through free verse.
A Specialist at The Recycled Heart
A lyrical meditation on emotional salvage and repair in speculative free verse.
A Love Poetry Trilogy
A Kiss for the Worthy
Poetry of expansive love inspired by Whitman and other classic voices.
Alive Is What You Feel
The omnibus edition of A Love Poetry Trilogy — a contemporary take on classic love poems.
Natural Disasters
SMALL Change
A powerful free verse collection exploring climate, bushfires, and human impact in the Anthropocene.
Devil In The Wind
A bushfire poetry collection on Black Saturday — survivors, rescuers, and witnesses speak through powerful free verse.
Of Drought and Fire
A natural disaster poetry collection — a lived experience shared through powerful free verse.
Closed For Now: A Pandemic Experience
The lived reality and daily impact of the Covid‑19 pandemic, captured through personal, observational free verse.
War and Conflict
From Volyn to Kherson
A raw poetic response to the war in Ukraine, based on real-time reports and lived moments.
Free Verse
White Whale
A poetic fable of survival and obsession — a free verse journey through fire, sand, and the human soul.
Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby
Poetry and archival clippings tell the true-crime story of Ida Pender.
