All day long I have been workingNow I am tired.I call: "Where are you?"But there is only the oak tree rustling in the wind . . .from Madonna of the Evening FlowersDrawing on the phrasing of the early 20th Century Amy Lowell poem Madonna of the Evening Flowers (above) Frank Prem has produced a collection of personal and interpersonal love poems written, as always, in the unique style that allows every reader to relate.Prem's interpretations breathe new life into contemporary love poetry and utilise Lowell's original phrases to inspire a tender immediacy and warmth of response as in the eponymous poem:silver heartI look at yousee myself the wayI should have beenbut something purewas lostalong the wayfrom walk away (silver heart)Walk Away Silver Heart is the first of three collections that together comprise A Love Poetry Trilogy, with each revisiting outstanding work by stellar poets of the past to produce vibrant new collections. The second collection, a kiss for the worthy, draws on Walt Whitman's classic work Leaves of Grass, while the third, rescue and redemption, derives from T.S Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.This is a new kind of poetry that tells stories, draws pictures and elicits emotional responses from readers. Just as the best poetry should. 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).
