The Kiss Reverberant — Reimagining Bachelard Through Poetry by Australian Poet Frank Prem
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 via a passing comment suggesting the philosopher’s ideas were “made for poetry.” That spark led Prem to immerse himself in thirteen translated volumes of Bachelard’s writing on imagination and elemental metaphor. The result is Bachelard Interpreted — an eight-part poetic conversation that echoes and reimagines Bachelard’s elemental vision.
The Kiss Reverberant is the sixth 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
just a moment
of this
you can be clear
that moment
was
a moment
I saw it
in the distance
I saw it
as it came closer
I saw it
as I lived it
I can see it —
fading
out of sight —
as I shade my eyes
to look ahead
into the blazing sun
that moment
what a moment
I saw it
now
it’s gone
Exploring Bachelard’s Philosophy of Time Through Poetry
The Kiss Reverberant explores Bachelard’s contemplations about time, developed as argument and counterpoint in a philosophers’ debate with a contemporary star of the philosophical field, Henri Bergson. This collection contemplates the vanishing nature of instants and moments. It explores the nature of time itself.
Prem interprets this philosopher’s debate, crafting from it free verse stories that reflect and inhabit Bachelard’s particular vision and ruminations.
Join the journey with The Kiss Reverberant — the sixth collection in the Bachelard Interpreted series.
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