My thanks to Ms Jade Li for this wonderful review of my Small Town Kid memoir. Ms Jade Li’s review is such a thrill for me, that I reproduce it in full, below.
December 14, 2018
From the dedication poem, “I Can Hardly Wait to Show You”, to “Circular Square Town”, Frank Prem’s chronological journey from infancy to the present has a familiar feel to it; almost as if you were take a walk through your own memory lane to recall the innumerable small, but unforgettable moments that make up a life.
Frank’s style is minimalist, with plenty of room to fill in the blanks with your own conjecture or possible parallel memories. Written about an Australian town that was a gold-rush town in its day, it touches on those times as well as describes the landscapes there.
Frank’s work is approachable, understandable, and sensitive in its handling of the most delicate of subjects.
Thank you.
And thanks to all who have and continue to read my work. These are very big moments in a life.
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Frank Prem Poetry 
Well done! They are all beautiful – my favourites are the nightman (and associated) stories.
Congratulations, Frank – well deserved.
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Thank you, so much Cage. I feel blessed to have found yself able to record the times even as they were becoming a distant memory.
It was really lovely talking to people at the shopping centre today, too – about the stories and the times and their own experiences of ‘way back then’.
Marvelous.
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Great review
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Thank you Derrick. I was told that Reviews would be like gold, and of how important they are to a writer, but, until there was something actually reviewing my own work, I didn’t really have a sense of what it might mean at a personal level.
I’m catching up to that now.
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🙂
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Reblogged this on Cage Dunn: Writer, Author, Teller-of-tall-tales and commented:
See – I told you it was good! And he’s got lots more!
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It was my pleasure to write the review, as it was to read your story.
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Ms Jade Li, your review will be more well known than my work, if I have any say in it. Again, I thank you.
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