Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby – Paperback release date 13th January 2023. I received an Advance Reader Copy of Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby from author, Frank Prem. This book was a quick read, but one I plan on returning to again to savor. Frank’s poetry style is sparse, giving the reader tender…
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Book Review — The New Asylum: A Memoir of Psychiatry, by Frank Prem
Frank Prem’s new poetry book, “The New Asylum: A Memoir of Psychiatry” contains memoirs spanning his life from a small child to forty or more years as a psychiatric nurse, all in relation to the psychiatric hospital on the hill in his small town in Australia. It starts with both of his parents working there,…
Book Review — Herja, Devastation, by Cage Dunn and Frank Prem
“The woman, well, she’s the devil to some, vengeance incarnate, the one who uses scars on the soul to hold you still while your heart comes out for examination.” —Herja, Devastation, by Prem, Frank and CS Dunn Adjectives that come to mind when I think of “Herja, Devastation” are smoldering, passionate, cold, dedicated, focused. Imagine,…
Book Review — Devil in the Wind: Voices from the 2009 Black Saturday Bush Fires, by Frank Prem
“Devil in the Wind: Voices from the 2009 Black Saturday Bush Fires,” is a book of poetry by Australian poet, Frank Prem, about horrific wildfires across the Australian state of Victoria in 2009. The preface includes descriptions of the physical and trauma effects in the victims’ own words. As the book moves along, the poems…
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