Bøker av Frank Prem

swimdamn youbecomeof-the-sandyour appointed taskis to be huntedby meI demandyou swim~Ahab the mariner and Moby the white whale inhabit a desert ocean together. One of them is dying.Inspired by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Frank Prem takes readers on a spiritual voyage through uncharted oceans. A journey of the soul that can only end through transformation.~thisis the voicewith whichyou will sing the songto stillall of the worldthat has earsto hear~White Whale is the chronicle of a joyous redemption.

Where do you look to find the beauty of the world?Is it in a place that has been recently featured in a tourism brochure? Perhaps, away in a foreign country that lies a journey by airplane distant?Or could it be closer to home - right beneath your feet and before your eyes?A Few Places Near Home is a picture-poetry collection that finds the beauty that surrounds us all the time. It is the beauty of home, seen through the lens of the passing of time and the approach of evening.A celebration of sunset and the gloaming hues that recur in new forms and variations each day.A Few Places Near Home is the here-and-now of beauty in our lives combined with contemplation that is the poetry of evenings and of autumn. The maturity of days.

there isa lazy rayof sunshinelying across the pagesof a philosophyPersonal love. A love of being and being one with all. A search for the essence of love.These are themes explored in Alive Is What You Feel (A Love Poetry Trilogy).the susurrations singto their gentlingby a breezeBuilding on seminal work by three wonderful poets of the past (Amy Lowell, Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot), this omnibus collection is its own journey through love, and a homage to the wonderful writers who inspired it.just as the grapebecomes a wineit will bea sensual thingAlive Is What You Feel is that sensitive thing called love.

Who is Ida Pender? Is she the elderly woman - Ida-Spider - rumoured to be resident in a 1970's Mental Asylum? Is she Squizzy Taylor's teenaged gangster moll of the roaring 1920's in Melbourne? The woman the police declared had shapely legs? She is Ida. The Jazz Baby.Frank Prem explores the story of Ida Pender, largely forgotten now, but once the notorious associate of a 1920s Melbourne gnagster. From the young girl sneaking out of her bedroom window to go dancing at the Palais de Danse, companion, accomplice, then wife and mother to Squizzy Taylor's child by her early twenties, Ida is an extraordinary woman and a marvellous story.

From Volyn To Kherson, tells the stories of hardship and suffering and bewilderment experienced by the people of Ukraine in the early weeks of the 2022 Russian invasion and war.The collection draws on news reports and social media postings during the most un-curated war the world has ever witnessed, interpreting and translating the raw emotion of this wartime experience.There is no part of Ukraine that has been left untouched by this war, and no part of the poet left untouched by these stories of the Ukraine.

Powerful images from the Western Front of WW I combine with the emotional depth of poetry. Welcome to the Somme. Welcome to hell.

A collection of poetry from the poet/author guests of Robbie Cheadle on the "Treasuring Poetry" blog series on Writing to be Read in 2020. Open the book and discover the poetry treasures of Sue Vincent, Geoff Le Pard, Frank Prem, Victoria (Tori) Zigler, Colleen M. Chesebro, K. Morris, Annette Rochelle Aben, Jude Kitya Itakali, and Roberta Eaton Cheadle.

Small Town Kid is a poetry anthology that illuminates the experience of regional life as a child, in an insular town during the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, remote from the more worldly places where life really happens, in a time before the internet and the online existence of social media.It is a time when a small town boy can walk a mile to school and back every day, and hunt rabbits with his dog in the hours of freedom before sundown. He can hoard crackers for bonfire night and blow up the deputy school master's mailbox in an act of joyous rebellion.It is a time when a small town teenager will ride fourteen miles on a bicycle for his first experience of girls, and of love. A time when migrating from a foreign country to a small town means his family will always feel that they are strangers, while visitors to the town are treated like an invading host.It is also the remembrance of tragedy for inexperienced friends driving on narrow country roads.This collection of poems and stories shares the type of childhood that has mostly disappeared in contemporary times. Come and revisit it here, in the pages of a Small Town Kid.