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. 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).
