Pebbles to Poems

By Frank Prem

Pebbles to Poems is a sample pack of Frank Prem's free-verse poetry and storytelling published between 2018 and 2020. Extracts from six collections, ranging through memoir, and wildfire though to contemporary love poetry.

Small Town Kid - growing up in a rural Australian town during the 1960s and 70s.

Devil In The Wind - the stories of victims and survivors of the 2009 Black Saturday wildfires in Australia.

The New Asylum - an experience of public psychiatry in Australia, from childhood roaming the mental hospital grounds, through student psychiatric nursing and on to managing acute wards and patients.

A Love Poetry Trilogy:

Walk Away Silver Heart - derived from the Amy Lowell poem 'Madonna of the Evening Flowers'.

A Kiss for the Worthy - derived from the Walt Whitman poem 'Leaves of Grass'.

Rescue and Redemption - derived from the T. S. Eliot poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'.

This is poetry that is meant to be read on the page and aloud, as well. Poetry the way you always wished it could be written.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Frank Prem
• Release date: Aug 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781925963175

Frank Prem

Frank Prem has been a storytelling poet for forty years. When not writing or reading his poetry to an audience, he fills his time by working as a psychiatric nurse.He has been published in magazines, e-zines and anthologies, in Australia and in a number of other countries, and has both performed and recorded his work as ‘spoken word’.Frank has published several collections of free verse poetry – Small Town Kid (2018), Devil In The Wind (2019), and The New Asylum (2019). and A Love Poetry Trilogy (Walk Away Silver Heart; A Kiss for the Worthy; and Rescue and Redemption) in 2020, as well as a two part picture book – A Beechworth Bakery Bears e-Book and A Beechworth Bakery Bears e-Book (too).He and his wife live in the beautiful township of Beechworth in northeast Victoria (Australia).

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PEBBLES TO POEMS

A selection from the published works

2018-2020

Frank Prem

Publication Details

Published by Wild Arancini Press

Copyright © 2020 Frank Prem

All rights reserved:

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher and author.

Title: Pebbles to Poems

ISBN: 978-1-925963-17-5 (e-bk)

For the readers.

Without you,

nothing.

Contents

About Pebbles to Poems

Small Town Kid

I can hardly wait to show you

oma rocks the cradle

working for a generation

frenki boy

you know mum’s cooking

loss of faith

Devil In The Wind

callignee butterflies

evidence to the commission of inquiry: overview

fire plan lament

evidence to the commission of inquiry: the warning

chardy at the cellar door

evidence to the commission of inquiry: next time

The New Asylum

mental health creature

a ha-ha above town

taxi shuttle

opening the door; surveying the realm

not a lot anymore

final discharge

consumers now

Walk Away Silver Heart

a small piece (free)

well nourished (now to sleep)

from a confusion (of insensible things)

sough leaves and heartbeat moments (stolen)

A Kiss for the Worthy

mmm-hmmm (this day)

see then sing (then rise)

in the midst I cannot think

is beautiful (this year)

Rescue and Redemption

blather

yesterday (never does)

the flickering (stilled)

(at least) I will know

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About Pebbles to Poems

Pebbles to Poems is a collection of extracts from six collections of poetry put into print and digital formats, between November 2018 and July 2020.

The first three collections – Small Town Kid, Devil In The Wind, and The New Asylum – are either broadly autobiographical or true-life experiential. Together, they comprise a series of memoirs.

These collections capture reflections of growing up in rural and semi-isolated Australia during the 1960s and 70s, living through and hearing the voices of victims and survivors of the terrible wildfires of 2009, known in Australia as Black Saturday, and my experiences of