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Overview
Did you grow up in the 1960s and 70s? Know someone who did? This book is for you.
Small Town Kid is a poetry anthology that illuminates the experience of regional life as a child, in an insular town during the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, remote from the more worldly places where life really happens, in a time before the internet and the online existence of social media.
It is a time when a small town boy can walk a mile to school and back every day, and hunt rabbits with his dog in the hours of freedom before sundown. He can hoard crackers for bonfire night and blow up the deputy school master's mailbox in an act of joyous rebellion.
It is a time when a small town teenager will ride fourteen miles on a bicycle for his first experience of girls, and of love. A time when migrating from a foreign country to a small town means his family will always feel that they are strangers, while visitors to the town are treated like an invading host.
It is also the remembrance of tragedy for inexperienced friends driving on narrow country roads.
This collection of poems and stories shares the type of childhood that has mostly disappeared in contemporary times. Come and revisit it here, in the pages of a Small Town Kid.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940165534324 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Frank Prem |
| Publication date: | 07/15/2021 |
| Sold by: | Draft2Digital |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 587 KB |
About the Author
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). His publishing schedule in 2020 includes A Love Poetry Trilogy (Walk Away Silver Heart; A Kiss for the Worthy; and Rescue and Redemption), as well as a two part picture book – The Beechworth Bakery Bears and The Beechworth Bakery Bears (too).
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 (2019) ISBN:978-09751442-8-2 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.
Frank Prem Contacts and Social Media
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/frankprem2
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvfW2WowqY1euO-Cj76LDKg
Twitter: https://twitter.com/frank_prem
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B07L61HNZ4
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18679262.Frank_Prem
Table of Contents
Contents
I can hardly wait to show you....................... iv
oma rocks the cradle............................ 1
working for a generation.......................... 2
poppy cakes.................................... 4
frenki boy....................................... 5
the exuberance of my aunt....................... 7
you know mum’s cooking....................... 10
loss of faith................................... 11
picnic story................................... 13
from inside the outhouse....................... 17
nightman...................................... 19
half moon at the trapdoor...................... 21
the dawn of civilisation.......................... 22
butcher’s paper.................................. 24
rabbit-o.................................... 26
the hallways of st joseph’s....................... 27
pine-needle tea and stabbing trees............... 28
spe-lli-ng b-y nu-mbe-rs............................ 30
fast-track perambulation......................... 31
pumpkin-rock terrorists.......................... 33
despatching tiny rubbish (and things like that)..... 35
facade catches............................... 37
sunsets are…................................. 39
discovering tv................................ 40
finch street elms................................ 41
fires of autumn.................................. 43
at easter................................... 44
a tricky place (the annual fete)..................... 46
crackers.................................... 50
state of the art.............................. 56
relentlessness................................ 58
holes in pockets................................. 60
yonnie power................................ 61
fight ........................................ 63
hating whitey................................ 66
mcalpine’s cherries............................ 67
sweet maureen.............................. 69
in the rooms................................. 70
football and law................................. 72
growing pains................................ 73
swimming on the royal reserve.................... 74
distance across ford street....................... 75
on a new year’s eve............................ 76
libby’s puzzle................................. 77
finishing school and wedding maths................ 79
#1 finishing school............................. 79
#2 wedding maths.......................... 80
not the mandalay................................ 81
memorial park.............................. 82
a cockys morning............................... 84
between sink and stove........................... 85
from the sticks.............................. 87
role to play.................................... 88
vale.......................................... 89
palmer’s not.................................. 91
small-town kids.................................. 92
broken english.............................. 93
circular square town.......................... 94
Other Works................................... 95