Andrew Franks
Books
Scratched in the stars, sprawled on the sand
Franks collects together over a quarter of a century of his poems, sketches and lyrics. Bittersweet echoes from the dole queue, bedsits and beaches of the Sussex coast.
Remembrances of old Soho bars, cold city side streets, stolen kisses and dark dreams. And finally from Sydney’s Northern Beaches where the passing of time is still measured in the sand, one sweet grain at a time…
The last of the great British traitors.
Influenced by his father’s autobiography (only discovered posthumously), betrayal, the eternal internal/external battle against depression, poems of youthful excess, unresolved desire and living life in self-imposed exile on the other side of the world.
Franks’s second volume of poems show a marked step forward at the same time as addressing the future of poetry in a digital age and the perils of parking penguins.
Soul Bay Compilation featuring George Mouratidis, George Shaw, Szymon Dorabialski,
Samantha Herron, Stuart Snelson, Lily Childs, Geoffrey Burgess,
Henry Tardelli, Thomas Flowers, Jack Nash, Martin Jenkins,
Andrew Franks & Matthew Loukes
Franks contributes two stories to this compilation. Engels' Ashes and 'Notes from the last days of the old regime' (as Jack Nash).
LASTEST BY
ANDREW FRANKS
Soul Bay Press published Lisdexamfetamine Blues (Ltd Edition)
Franks' 4th collection of poetry in early 2025
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Sunflower Eclipse over Troia Nova
The third collection of poetry by Andrew Franks.
This is his most coherent collection to date and firmly establishes Franks as an important voice in these dangerous times.
Topics range from a miraculous night in London to … lost moments in faded seaside hotels… early mornings on the Tasman coast… Hitler’s assassin… eulogies for dead poets… the ace-face of the space race…reminiscences of loves ancient, faded and frantic… messages from Camp Delta and from dead anarchists… punk rock discotheques…internet sensations and celebrating the destruction of half the world’s wildlife!