Kevin Densley says regarding this week’s poem: ‘Can a writer, in some sense, become his own body of work?’
Almanac Poetry: Italianesque
September 30, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is a previously unpublished one, written about one of his favourite artists, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Almanac Music: Two Potent Elements – Songs Involving Blood and/or Fire
September 27, 2024 by 141 Comments
This week’s installment of KD’s epic series on popular song themes concerns songs that involve blood and/or fire. As usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Sequence of Dreams
September 23, 2024 by 4 Comments
Dreams? Fantasies? Trying to find yourself? … This previously unpublished poem from Kevin Densley tackles some of the ‘big issues’ related to life’s journey, in a poem tinged with humour. (And KD thanks a Bob Dylan song for inspiring the poem’s title.)
Almanac Poetry: Memento Mori
September 16, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Densley’s latest poem is a previously unpublished, blackly comic one about mortality.
Almanac Poetry: Writer’s Lament
September 9, 2024 by 14 Comments
This week’s hitherto unpublished poem from Kevin Densley offers a humorous take on writing competitions.
Almanac Poetry: The Geelong College Gates, Geelong, Victoria
September 2, 2024 by 4 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is a hitherto unpublished one concerning a former student’s bravery commemorated by gates at The Geelong College.
Almanac Poetry: The Last Time I Saw My Great-Grandmother
August 26, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This previously unpublished poem, according to KD, is one written long ago about his last meeting with his great-grandmother, Lucy. The encounter didn’t go quite as expected.
Almanac Poetry: Billabong Creek, near Forbes, May 5, 1865
August 19, 2024 by 10 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is a hitherto unpublished one about the death of bushranger Ben Hall, often portrayed as the great romantic figure of Australian bushranging.
Almanac Music: ‘Oh Vesuvius’ – Songs Involving Hills, Mountains and Volcanoes
August 16, 2024 by 215 Comments
In the latest installment of KD’s epic series about popular song themes, the focus is upon hills, mountains and volcanoes. As usual, readers’ contributions are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: I warn you
August 12, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from KD is a warning to all of its readers. [And editors – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: Teddy Bear
August 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
KD describes this poem as ‘an unpublished one from my archives, about a childhood buddy’.
Almanac Poetry: On Kandinsky’s Dreamy Improvisation (1913)
July 29, 2024 by 10 Comments
This week’s poem by KD is a previously unpublished one responding to a painting by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky. [A lovely simple yet arresting probe – Ed.]
Almanac Music: ‘Everybody’s building ships and boats’ – Songs Involving Watercraft
July 26, 2024 by 215 Comments
In this week’s installment of his long-running series on popular song, KD looks at songs involving watercraft – ships, boats, yachts and the like. As usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: To Leanne, My Long-Lost Friend, Nude in Last Night’s Dream
July 22, 2024 by 4 Comments
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley deals with dreams, utopia, transience and loss.
Almanac Music: ‘Once I had a love…’ – Songs Referencing Glass
July 12, 2024 by 108 Comments
In the latest installment of his long-running series on popular song themes, KD looks at songs referencing glass; as usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Boot Hill
July 8, 2024 by 2 Comments
In this previously unpublished poem, KD looks with affection at the reading habits of his Densley grandfather. [Nicely putting the meta into metaphor – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: Oedipus and the Theban Sphinx
July 1, 2024 by 2 Comments
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley offers his perspective on the ancient Greek story of Oedipus’s encounter with the Sphinx who blocked the entrance to the city of Thebes.
Almanac Music: ‘My Baby’s Got Me Locked Up in Chains’ – Songs Containing Prison References
June 28, 2024 by 150 Comments
In this week’s installment of his long-running series concerning popular song themes, KD looks at songs that contain prison references.
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