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  • Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby

    Free Verse

    by Frank Prem ...
    Series series Free Verse
    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. ... Read more

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  • Walk Away Silver Heart

    A Love Poetry Trilogy, #1

    by Frank Prem ...
    Series Book 1 - A Love Poetry Trilogy
    All day long I have been workingNow I am tired.I call: "Where are you?"But there is only the oak tree rustling in the wind . . .from Madonna of the Evening FlowersDrawing on the phrasing of the early 20th Century Amy Lowell poem Madonna of the Evening Flowers (above) Frank Prem has produced a collection of personal and interpersonal love poems written, as always, in the unique style that allows ... Read more

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  • Of Drought and Fire

    by Frank Prem ...
    . . . and at home we sayif it's yellowlet it mellowif it's brownflush it on down . . .~Two natural disasters, each on a massive scale, a decade and a half apart.One is the slow withering that desiccates the soul by increments, the other a raging series of fires burning half a continent in a mad rush of smoke and flame and wind.Two un-natural disasters, aided and abetted by the relentless ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Closed For Now; A Pandemic Experience

    Natural Disasters

    by Frank Prem ...
    Series series Natural Disasters
    my throat feels tightthe back of my headseems nasal(cough) . . .~2020 arrived like a gut punch.Australia burned all through that summer, and before the smoke had cleared a new disaster swept in — Covid 19. Masks became part of daily life, borders were closed, and Victoria entered the first of seven lockdowns. Movement, work, and connection with other people were suddenly uncertain.Frank Prem had ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kiss Reverberant - Bachelard Interpreted Book 6

    Bachelard Interpreted, #6

    by Frank Prem ...
    Series Book 6 - Bachelard Interpreted
    nowis gonenowis gonenow . . .~French philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored thenature of time, in the context of an argument amongst philosophers, in two books - Intuition of e Instant, and The Dialectic of Duration.In The Kiss Reverberant, Frank Prem interpretsBachelard's explorations of the poetic element time,decanting the vivid imagery contained within thephilosopher's work into new and ... Read more

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  • Small Change

    by Frank Prem ...
    I don't knowwhat I knowfor sureI don't knowwhatI do not know~This poetry collection is the outcome of a week-long workshop retreat in 2024 - Cries From The Anthropocene - attended by creatives, academics, and researchers who came together in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, to discuss, consider and respond to what they understood and what they might do in response to the parlous state... ... Read more

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  • An Ocean of Purity - Bachelard Interpreted Book 5

    Bachelard Interpreted, #5

    by Frank Prem ...
    Series Book 5 - Bachelard Interpreted
    I like myself wellI like me truebutI would like mebetter . . .French philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored the philosophic and poetic values of water, liquids and fluidity in his book Water and Dreams - An Essay On the Imagination of Matter.In An Ocean of Purity, Frank Prem interprets Bachelard's explorations of the poetic element water, decanting the vivid imagery contained within the philosopher ... Read more

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  • Monet's Lily: Bachelard Interpreted Book 7

    Bachelard Interpreted, #7

    by Frank Prem ...
    Series Book 7 - Bachelard Interpreted
    plinkthere is no light, there is no timethere is nothingplinkjust a man aloneminingThroughout a long career, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored the philosophic and poetic values of s wide range of subjects, gathered int he form of essays and in one case, a literary review, compiled in the books On Poetic Imagination and Reverie, The Right to Dream, The New Scientific Spirit, and ... Read more

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  • A Flight Of Ideas

    Bachelard Interpreted, #4

    by Frank Prem ...
    Series Book 4 - Bachelard Interpreted
    these people are professionalsthey know the signsto watch foroneiric-para-medicalshave done all thisbefore~French philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored the philosophic and poetic values of air in his book Air and Dreams - An Essay On the Imagination of Movement.In A Flight of Ideas, Frank Prem interprets Bachelard's explorations of the poetic element air, decanting the vivid imagery contained ... Read more

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  • Real Weight

    Bachelard Interpreted, #3

    by Frank Prem ...
    Series Book 3 - Bachelard Interpreted
    I make this winewith subtle waterpick -one by one -the stars to treadFrench philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored the philosophic and poetic values of earth in two books - Earth and Reveries of Repose, and Earth and Reveries of Will.In Real Weight Frank Prem interprets Bachelard's explorations of the poetic element earth, decanting the vivid imagery contained within the philosopher's work into new ... Read more

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  • The New Asylum

    by Frank Prem ...
    Step into and experience in person the world of mental institutions and madness.The New Asylum is the third volume in a series of free-verse poetry anthologies and personal memoirs from Australian author Frank Prem (Small Town Kid, Devil In The Wind).These stories are an exposé of life in the public psychiatric system, spanning five decades and describing sometimes graphically, sometimes ... Read more

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  • A Cleansing Flame

    Bachelard Interpreted, #2

    by Frank Prem ...
    Series Book 2 - Bachelard Interpreted
    when he turned the hourglassthe sand ran upas he knew it woulddeep contemplationso often turns lifeon its head~The French philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored the philosophic and poetic values of flame and fire in three books - The Psychoanalysis of Fire, The Flame of a Candle, and the unfinished Fragments of a Poetics of Fire.In A Cleansing Flame, Frank Prem interprets Bachelard's explorations.. ... Read more

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