A Poetry Archive Volume 1

He’s like the bird in a cage

in a pit

in a tunnel,

and he sings just to celebrate air.

Something . . . Everything . . . Nothing . . .

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What do you write when you are learning to be a poet?

What do you not write? Is there a breath of air taken

that doesn’t contain a poem buried within it?

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lord this is earth

I am alone too far from

water-blue we look

from where you gaze on us . . .

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A Poetry Archive visits Frank Prem’s early days as a poet.

Volume 1 is the  rst of two collections written between

1998 - 2003, and reveals the emergence of a distinctive

poetic voice.

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shall I write for you dear reader

the way a fish might do

in swirls and circles through the water . . .

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Wild Arancini Press is delighted to bring you this

wonderful journal of a poet’s beginnings.