Category Archives: Audio Recordings

Walk Away Silver Heart Audio – and again

I’ve recorded and uploaded this audio recording with a Facebook Group that I am an enthusiastic member of in mind. They are The Original Emmylou Harris Facebook Group.

This is a moment of true confession and I feel obliged to share that I have been an avid fan of Emmylou Harris since the middle of the 1970’s, when I first heard her singing on the album – Pieces of the Sky. She is quite simply the artist with the voice, and she uses it to make the most wonderful music.

Anyway, long story short, one of the poems that I have written for Walk Away Silver Heart is a reflection on the relationship that I have with this lady and her music, and I have offered to share it with the group.

So, today I have taken a moment to record this small homage to someone who has brought great joy to me, across the journey. I hope you enjoy an audio rendition of the poem, and again.

I will include the links to other readings from Walk Away Silver Heart after the Amazon link, below.

If you enjoy listening, please consider purchasing the book.

 


The first set includes the following poems:

  1. Madonna of the Evening Flowers (Lowell)
  2. a small piece (free)
  3. well nourished (now to sleep)
  4. from a confusion (of insensible things)
  5. sough leaves and heartbeat moments (stolen)

Link to the first set.

The second set includes the following poems:

  1. morning (awaited)
  2. the way you wield (flashes in the light)
  3. too much (to bear)
  4. suddenly (the sun)

Link to the second set.

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Walk Away Silver Heart – audio

The attached audio includes the following poems:

  1. Madonna of the Evening Flowers (Lowell)
  2. a small piece (free)
  3. well nourished (now to sleep)
  4. from a confusion (of insensible things)
  5. sough leaves and heartbeat moments (stolen)

I hope you enjoy listening to them, and will consider purchasing the book.

 

Walk Away Silver Heart

Random Readings from the Archives

This page features some random recordings of individual poems. Some are taken from sets of work done in the past, such as Tuesday Night at Emile’s (originally from the’Book of Evenings’ collection, and a small correction which came out of ‘Memoir of a Dog’. Both these collections are currently out of print.

Hope you enjoy your visit.

Random recordings from the archives

an evening at the swampy

a small correction

carmen and cisco

tuesday night at emile’s

learning to twirl

Studio Quality Accompanied Recordings

This page features recordings of a number of mythologically themed poems, inspired by reading from and listening to Joseph Campbell.

Produced and accompanied by Leanne Murphy.

Studio and accompanied recording.

not I at all

the day craft

maketh the man

a long night to sunrise

Beechworth Library 08/09/2018

This page features audio recordings of a reading done at the local library in my home-town of Beechworth in September, 2018.

Live – reading to an audience.

Beechworth Library 8th September, 2018 (Part 1)

Part 1 of a live reading performance by Frank Prem at Beechworth Library.

Set List:

01. Two weeks (01:04)
02. Driven Bunny-anas (02:19)
03. Whispering Corn (03:50)
04. the good earth (04:28)
05. Telephone and Tabby (06:21)
06. Carmen and Cisco (08:37)
07. Lights Out (09:26)
08. Sweet Maureen (12:47)
09. On a New Year’s Eve (13:25)
10. Materinski Jezik – the mother tongue (14:52)
11. you know mums cooking? (16:31)
12. April Moon (17:58)
13. Ready (20:19)

Beechworth Library 8th September, 2018 (Part 2)

Part 2 of a live poetry reading performance by Frank Prem at Beechworth Library.

Set List:

01. Losing Sleep about Perfection (00:45)
02. way poem 5: the five steps to wheaten pecks (02:35)
03. way poem 3: to a higher place (04:40)
04. way poem 9: poor saturations/low sats (06:31)
05. drawing an idea (08:53)
06. the hermits of reading (10:40)
07. necessary preparations (12:24)
08. surviving the devil (14.38)
09. the strength of a truckie (17:37)
10. evidence to the commission of enquiry #8 all in the ark for awhile (18:50)
11. don decides (20:11)
12. arthur and alice: feature on ford street (22:10)

Beechworth Library 22/09/2018

This page features audio recordings of a reading done at the local library in my home-town of Beechworth in September, 2018.

Live – reading to an audience.

Beechworth Library 22nd September, 2018 (Part 1)

Part 1 of a live reading performance by Frank Prem at Beechworth Library.

Set List:

01. Ned Kelly and me (00:14)
02. a Husqy roar (03:28)
03. Half moon at the Trapdoor (05:06)
04. nightman (05:39)
05. rabbit-o (07:11)
06. McAlpine’s cherries (08:05)
07. witchy wire (10:34)
08. single male shopper (12:06)
09. zlata’s daughter (15:19)
10. writing in the moon (18:25)
11. the girl who had her red shoes on

Beechworth Library 22nd September, 2018 (Part 2)

Part 2 of a live poetry reading performance by Frank Prem at Beechworth Library.

Set List:

01. a small correction (00:39)
02. otherwise known as (a long way from home) (04:56)
03. first breakfast (06:08)
04. the smell of stockings (07:23)
05. sunday lunch with the ladies (08:42)
06. student daze – to pharmacy for tubes (10:18)
07. student daze – token economy (11:06)
08. student daze – where the air (11:47)
09. student daze – famous flying choppers (12:21)
10. kick starting the morning (13:10)
11. not a lot, anymore (14.08)
12. furball and freddie (15:28)
13. the public poet (19:33)