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A Specialist at The Recycled Heart – speculative poetry in free verse form

A Specialist at The Recycled Heart is a free verse speculative poetry collection that questions our understandings of the real, the now, or the possible, and asks

• what is the sound of the wind – of a sigh – on Mars:
• what does an abandoned artificial life form  contemplate in a lonely existence in far outer space, and why was it made, only to be abandoned;
• is it possible to go fishing to catch a passing thought?

What is Speculative Poetry ?

Wikipedia defines Speculative poetry in this way:

Speculative poetry is a genre of poetry that focusses on fantastic, science fictional and mythological themes. It is also known as science fiction poetry or fantastic poetry. It is distinguished from other poetic genres by being categorized by its subject matter, rather than by the poetry’s form.

In the case of A Specialist, Frank Prem wanders freely through the ‘what if’ universe and accomplishes a satisfying poetic exploration.

Other Work by Frank Prem

Other Free Verse poetry books by Frank Prem include:

• Small Town Kid – a memoir of growing in rural Australia in the 1960s and 70s.
• Devil In The Wind – the voices of victims and survivors the Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria (Australia) in 2009.
• The New Asylum – a memoir of a lifetime spent in psychiatry.
• The Garden Black – Speculative fiction written in sparse free verse. New worlds are at your feet.

Picture-Poetry Books by Frank Prem include:

• Sheep On The Somme – poetry to accompany images taken on The Somme and Western Front during the first World War
• Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby – Discover the life and times of Ida Spender, girlfriend, criminal associate, wife and widow of Leslie ‘Squizzy’ Taylor.
• Voices In TheTrash– in which the objects found in a Trash and Treasure Barn tell their stories.
• Children’s books The Beechworth Bakery Bears and Waiting For Frank-Bear– in which the Teddy Bears resident at the Beechworth Bakery introduce themselves and their lives to young readers.