KD encapsulates this week’s previously unpublished poem, one he wrote decades ago, as involving ‘young love, romance, despair’. ‘All much of a muchness’, he adds, in relation to this description.
Almanac Music: ‘It’s Heartbreak Warfare’ – Songs Referencing War
May 1, 2026 by 119 Comments
This instalment of KD’s long-running series on popular song themes concerns songs referencing war. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Granny’s Lost It
April 27, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Densley describes this week’s previously unpublished poem as ‘reflecting upon old age and the inevitability of death’.
Almanac Poetry: ‘The Great War – AIF Suite’
April 25, 2026 by 27 Comments
Kevin Densley’s ‘The Great War – AIF Suite’ poetry collection is as timely as ever on Anzac Day. Read on for some poignant and arresting reflections on Australian soldiers who fought in World War I. [For ANZAC Day 2026 we reprise Kevin’s set of reflective World War I poems- Ed]
Almanac Poetry: My Portrait by an Artist Friend
April 13, 2026 by 4 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is basically KD’s commentary on a recent portrait of him by his artist-friend, Terry Matassoni.
Almanac Music: ‘Caught in a trap’ – Songs Referencing Catching.
April 10, 2026 by 67 Comments
In this instalment of KD’s long-running series on popular song themes, the subject is songs referencing catching. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: The New Testament
April 6, 2026 by 8 Comments
‘The New Testament’ is Kevin Densley’s poetic take on the second major division of the Christian Bible – in just thirty-seven lines! This week it gets a second coming in honour of Easter Monday.
Almanac Poetry: Stone and Darkness
March 30, 2026 by 2 Comments
We reprise Kevin Densley’s seasonal poem in the lead up to Easter, set at dawn in the precinct of St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne.
Almanac Song Lyrics: I Can’t Get Started
March 23, 2026 by 6 Comments
This week, in place of his usual Monday poem, Kevin Densley provides an original song lyric.
Almanac Music: ‘Hip To Be Square’ – Songs Referencing Shapes
March 20, 2026 by 89 Comments
In this week’s instalment of KD’s long-running series on popular song themes, the focus is upon shapes – squares, triangles, circles, diamonds and the like. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Puppet Presidents
March 16, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley looks at leaders put in place by higher powers who actually pull the strings.
Almanac Poetry: Memories of St. Catherine’s
March 9, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is a previously unpublished one, written long ago, capturing a scene from his early schooldays.
Almanac Poetry: Picture at an Exhibition: ‘Solo Man’ (homo softdrinkus) c. 1975, Australia
March 2, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Densley on today’s poem: “In ‘Solo Man’, I indicate my answer to the following question: how misogynistic was Australia in the 1970s, my formative teenage years?”
Almanac Music: ‘Walk This Way’ – Songs Referencing Walking
February 27, 2026 by 230 Comments
In this installment of KD’s long-running series on popular song themes, the subject is walking. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Brief Biographical Sketch of Titian
February 23, 2026 by 2 Comments
This poem by KD is biographical – about a master of Italian Renaissance painting, Titian – it contains a touch of the author’s customary humour.
Almanac Poetry: Essay in Loneliness
February 16, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem, according to Kevin Densley, fits in with the well-known dictum often attributed to Ernest Hemingway: ‘There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit at a typewriter and bleed.’
Almanac Poetry: To Die
February 9, 2026 by 4 Comments
This poem from Kevin Densley, from his just-published collection, Isle Full of Noises (Ginninderra Press), deals with different ways condemned criminals have responded to their last moments on earth.
Almanac Music: ‘Ziggy played guitar’- Songs Referencing Musical Instruments
February 6, 2026 by 174 Comments
This instalment of KD’s long-running series on popular song concerns songs referencing musical instruments. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Half-full, Half-empty
February 2, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Densley describes this week’s poem, centred upon a comment by Swedish writer and painter August Strindberg, as ‘a very short one featuring God and the Devil’.
Almanac Poetry – Goodbye Georgie: A Sequel
January 19, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley follows from one he wrote about George Best that appeared on The Footy Almanac in 2021. In the words of KD: ‘This sequel is about the difficulty of dealing with personal demons when one is in the public spotlight.’
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