Frank Prem

Pebbles to Poems 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.