Tag Archives: Spoken Word Poetry

Random Readings from the Archives

This page features some random recordings of individual poems. Some are taken from sets of work done in the past, such as Tuesday Night at Emile’s (originally from the’Book of Evenings’ collection, and a small correction which came out of ‘Memoir of a Dog’. Both these collections are currently out of print.

Hope you enjoy your visit.

Random recordings from the archives

an evening at the swampy

a small correction

carmen and cisco

tuesday night at emile’s

learning to twirl

Studio Quality Accompanied Recordings

This page features recordings of a number of mythologically themed poems, inspired by reading from and listening to Joseph Campbell.

Produced and accompanied by Leanne Murphy.

Studio and accompanied recording.

not I at all

the day craft

maketh the man

a long night to sunrise

Beechworth Library 08/09/2018

This page features audio recordings of a reading done at the local library in my home-town of Beechworth in September, 2018.

Live – reading to an audience.

Beechworth Library 8th September, 2018 (Part 1)

Part 1 of a live reading performance by Frank Prem at Beechworth Library.

Set List:

01. Two weeks (01:04)
02. Driven Bunny-anas (02:19)
03. Whispering Corn (03:50)
04. the good earth (04:28)
05. Telephone and Tabby (06:21)
06. Carmen and Cisco (08:37)
07. Lights Out (09:26)
08. Sweet Maureen (12:47)
09. On a New Year’s Eve (13:25)
10. Materinski Jezik – the mother tongue (14:52)
11. you know mums cooking? (16:31)
12. April Moon (17:58)
13. Ready (20:19)

Beechworth Library 8th September, 2018 (Part 2)

Part 2 of a live poetry reading performance by Frank Prem at Beechworth Library.

Set List:

01. Losing Sleep about Perfection (00:45)
02. way poem 5: the five steps to wheaten pecks (02:35)
03. way poem 3: to a higher place (04:40)
04. way poem 9: poor saturations/low sats (06:31)
05. drawing an idea (08:53)
06. the hermits of reading (10:40)
07. necessary preparations (12:24)
08. surviving the devil (14.38)
09. the strength of a truckie (17:37)
10. evidence to the commission of enquiry #8 all in the ark for awhile (18:50)
11. don decides (20:11)
12. arthur and alice: feature on ford street (22:10)

Beechworth Library 22/09/2018

This page features audio recordings of a reading done at the local library in my home-town of Beechworth in September, 2018.

Live – reading to an audience.

Beechworth Library 22nd September, 2018 (Part 1)

Part 1 of a live reading performance by Frank Prem at Beechworth Library.

Set List:

01. Ned Kelly and me (00:14)
02. a Husqy roar (03:28)
03. Half moon at the Trapdoor (05:06)
04. nightman (05:39)
05. rabbit-o (07:11)
06. McAlpine’s cherries (08:05)
07. witchy wire (10:34)
08. single male shopper (12:06)
09. zlata’s daughter (15:19)
10. writing in the moon (18:25)
11. the girl who had her red shoes on

Beechworth Library 22nd September, 2018 (Part 2)

Part 2 of a live poetry reading performance by Frank Prem at Beechworth Library.

Set List:

01. a small correction (00:39)
02. otherwise known as (a long way from home) (04:56)
03. first breakfast (06:08)
04. the smell of stockings (07:23)
05. sunday lunch with the ladies (08:42)
06. student daze – to pharmacy for tubes (10:18)
07. student daze – token economy (11:06)
08. student daze – where the air (11:47)
09. student daze – famous flying choppers (12:21)
10. kick starting the morning (13:10)
11. not a lot, anymore (14.08)
12. furball and freddie (15:28)
13. the public poet (19:33)