Frank Prem

Biography

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 three collections of free verse poetry – Small Town Kid (2018), Devil In The Wind (2019), and The New Asylum (2019).

Frank has also published the collaborative work – Herja Devastation (2019) together with Australian author Cage Dunn.

He and his wife live in the beautiful township of Beechworth in northeast Victoria (Australia).

Publications

Small Town Kid (2018) ISBN: 978-0975144237 A free verse memoir of growing up in rural Australia in the 1960s and 70s.

Devil In The Wind (2019) ISBN: 978-0975144268 In free verse, the voices of victims and survivors of the horrendous Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria (Australia) in 2009

Herja, Devastation (2019) ISBN: 978-1925905045 An experimental fusion of free verse poetry and prose by Australian authors Frank Prem and Cage Dunn to tell the story of a Valkyrie and her mortal assassin/accomplice as they mete justice and vengeance.

The New Asylum – a memoir of psychiatry (scheduled November 2019) A free verse memoir of a lifetime growing up with and experiencing public sector psychiatry in Victoria (Australia), from the 1960s to the present day.