Description
A Lake Sambell Walk is a picture-poetry excursion around the iconic – man-made – lake that lies in the heart of the beautiful township of Beechworth. Beechworth is home to free-verse poet Frank Prem, and Lake Sambell is witness to the history of gold mining that ultimately created the town in peak mining era of the mid-1800s. Short-form poetry provides a commentary to the sights and insights that greet a poet on his rounds. Join Frank Prem for A Lake Sambell Walk. 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) and Pebbles to Poems (2020) an e-book sample collection which includes extracts from each of his previous published works to act as a showcase for readers. He and his wife live in the beautiful township of Beechworth in northeast Victoria (Australia).
