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Pebbles to Poems, from the new voice in contemporary poetry
Frank Prem is the new voice in contemporary poetry, and in Pebbles to Poems, he presents excerpts from six published collections that deliver Memoir, Catastrophe, Psychiatry and Love stories.
Memoir and Catastrophe
In these three collections, Prem has captured the poetry of different times and different places. Varied settings that emotionally capture and transport readers, as though here, and now.
- Small Town Kid is an Australian childhood of the 1960s and 70s;
- Devil In The Wind captures the voices of victims and survivors of Australia’s fatal and destructive Black Saturday Bushfires; and
- The New Asylum takes the reader through a lifetime spent in and around public sector psychiatry from childhood to professional psychiatric nurse.
These collections are a vital social history and a chronicle of their times.
A Love Poetry Trilogy
A Love Poetry Trilogy draws on the work of three stellar poets as inspiration for new interpretations of some famous examples of their work and are outstanding examples of contemporary love poetry.
Prem invites the reader to revisit wonderful poems written in a bygone time which remain readable and applicable today. His interpretations are a new way to take a poetic journey. Pebbles to Poems brings samples from each of these works and invites you to read each poem aloud to hear and feel the rhythms of voice.
These collections encompass the personal and the wide world as well as darker places where love may lie.
- Walk Away Silver Heart derives from the Poem Madonna of the Evening Flowers by Amy Lowell and presents aspects of the personal love of one for another;
- A Kiss For The Worthy takes the majestic Walt Whitman poem Leaves of Grass and describes a love of the wide world and one’s personal place within it; and
- Rescue and Redemption explores the world of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot and journeys in search of love through sometimes difficult and insalubrious places.
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