Monet’s Lily — A Reimagining of Bachelard Through Poetry by Australian Poet Frank Prem
Edition Details
Monet’s Lily – Bachelard Interpreted 7
Author: Frank Prem
Publisher: Wild Arancini Press (Independent)
Publication Year: 2026
Format: EPUB (Digital Edition)
ISBN (EPUB): 978-1-925963-89-2
File Size: 1.6 MB
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Who Was Gaston Bachelard — and Why Interpret Him Through Poetry?
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) was a French philosopher celebrated for his work in poetics and the philosophy of science. Though not a poet himself, he profoundly shaped modern thinking about imagination, metaphor, and the symbolic power of the elements.
Frank Prem first encountered Bachelard through a passing comment that his ideas were “made for poetry.” This spark led Prem to immerse himself in thirteen translated volumes of Bachelard’s writings on imagination and elemental metaphor. The result is Bachelard Interpreted — an eight-part poetic conversation that echoes and reimagines Bachelard’s elemental vision.
Monet’s Lily is the seventh volume in this series, written by Australian poet and storyteller Frank Prem (Small Town Kid, Devil In The Wind, The New Asylum – a memoir of psychiatry).
Look Inside
the work of waking
HEY!
he threw a word
into a slumbering pool
and the ripples
rolled
and bobbed
away from the splash
and out
to every shore
setting temporary tides free
to enact
their come
and go
HEy
Hey
hey
the echo of a word
surrounded the voice
that spoke the sound
no longer alone
he is —
evermore —
the one
who un-stilled the pool
the one . . .
hey
who woke
the echo
Bachelard Interpreted in Monet’s Lily: Exploring Philosophy Through Poetry
Monet’s Lily draws on five volumes of Bachelard’s work — poetics, scientific thought, literary critique, and essays — interpreting his ideas through a contemporary poetic lens.
Prem guides readers through the philosopher’s contemplations with sensitivity and insight, offering a poetic map of imagination, memory, and the elemental world.
Join the journey with Monet’s Lily — the seventh collection in the Bachelard Interpreted series.
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