When sides are picked for the Almanac website each week, Kevin Densley’s name goes on the whiteboard first. His poems, both unpublished and previously published, help kick off the week and his prose on Friday always stirs commenters into action.
Kevin’s poetry collections have attracted excellent reviews over the years contributing to his reputation in poetry circles. Please Feed the Macaws…I’m Feeling Too Indolent was well received when it was released earlier this year. Kevin has shared several of the poems on our site throughout the year which can be found among over 300 contributions which are on our site.
Almanac editor Col Ritchie offered his thoughts in a review which you can read here.
Now a tremendous review has been published in Antipodes, a USA-based global journal of Australian and New Zealand literature. Written by UK writer, editor and reviewer James Roderick Burns, it begins
‘Deploying a trademark blend of high and popular culture, history, and memory, Kevin Densley’s latest collection strikes out for fresh territory using new and innovative forms. While not dispensing with the arch (and often tart) rollicking historical monologue that distinguishes his earlier work—“Kate Kelly (1863–1898)” being a standout of the form—Densley experiments here with radically minimal sonnets, tanka, and most often a new, pungent satirical squib, detonating with aplomb every few pages. Perhaps more than his earlier collections, too, Macaws takes prolonged and deliberate aim at a personal bugbear: the inanities of the world. It is to Densley’s credit that by the collection’s end, what might seem individual or idiosyncratic takes on universal resonance.’
Congratulations, Kevin, on your achievements generally and your success with Please Feed the Macaws from the entire Almanac community!
And thanks being such a vital part of Team Almanac.
Read more of the review here.
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Congratulations KD, well done, and thoroughly deserved.
Thanks, Col – and thank you to the Almanac for such a fine write-up.
Well done KD, richly deserved. A master of the craft.
Thanks so much, DB.
Much respect to you, too!
I enjoy reading your work,. You know what you’re doing when it comes to poetry. We’re certainly in excellent hands when it comes to your work.
Congratulations Kevin. Great recognition.
Thanks, Dips. Such reviews give one a lift.