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Love poetry and stories

Drawing on lines and phrases used by Walt Whitman in his great late-19th century poem, Leaves of Grass, Frank Prem has produced a collection of expansive and outward looking love stories in free-verse poetry written, as always, in a unique style that allows every reader to relate as the second book in A Love Poetry Trilogy collection.

Prem’s interpretations breathe new life into contemporary exploration of themes of love poetry and stories, and inspire a contemplation of the self in the context of landscape and the wider world. From the phrase . . . houses and rooms are filled with perfumes . . . comes:

a house filled (with the sensual)

Houses and rooms are full of perfumes

I watch them
in the early morning
hours

they are closed
before the sun

like
little rooms
little houses
un-obtruding
on the lawn

waiting for
daylight proper

and as they open
I realise
they are filled
with sweet perfumes . . .

The first collection of love stories in free-verse poetry, Walk Away Silver Heart, draws on Amy Lowell ‘s wonderful work Madonna of the Evening Flowers (1919), while the third, Rescue and Redemption, derives from T.S Eliot‘s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915).

Frank Prem has used these outstanding poetic works by stellar poets to bring a new appreciation to what these poems represent, and to bring into being a mature love poetry of reflection and appreciation of what love can mean in its various guises.

This is a new kind of poetry that tells stories, draws pictures and elicits emotional responses from readers. Just as the best poetry should.

Prem’s other published work includes memoir (Small Town Kid, The New Asylum) and true stories (Devil In The Wind. Tragedy and truth. Find more of his work here.