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Almanac Poetry: Jubilee Lake

March 20, 2023 by Kevin Densley Leave a Comment

This week’s poem by Kevin Densley was inspired by Jubilee Lake, in Daylesford, central Victoria.

Almanac Music: How Low Can You Go? ‘Way Down’ – Elvis Presley’s Last Single

March 17, 2023 by Kevin Densley 6 Comments

This Friday’s music piece from KD concerns the last Elvis single released before his passing, and its importance in musical history, as well as raising the issue of the bass voice in songs of the rock ‘n’ roll era.

Almanac Poetry: Drifting into Oblivion

March 13, 2023 by Kevin Densley Leave a Comment

This week’s poem by Kevin Densley is about women and dreamy, painterly beauty.

Almanac Music: Ooby Dooby Shoop Shoop

March 10, 2023 by Kevin Densley 44 Comments

This Friday’s music article by KD deals with songs in which vocal sounds and/or deliberate verbal nonsense are an important component. We all know such songs, and readers are invited to add to the list Kevin has compiled.

Almanac Poetry: At Isobel’s

March 6, 2023 by Kevin Densley Leave a Comment

A long-ago stay at a well-known Australian novelist’s house on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria inspired this week’s poem from Kevin Densley.

Almanac Music: Catchy

March 3, 2023 by Kevin Densley 22 Comments

In this Friday’s piece, KD writes about what makes a song catchy, and discusses some of the catchiest songs he knows, then invites Almanackers to put forward ones of their own.

Almanac (Prose) Poetry: After Reading Ovid’s ‘Dedalus’

February 27, 2023 by Kevin Densley Leave a Comment

This Monday’s piece from Kevin Densley is his poetic take on the Greek myth of Dedalus and Icarus as told by the Roman poet, Ovid, in his famous work ‘The Metamorphoses’.

Almanac Poetry: Erasmus Fell

February 20, 2023 by Kevin Densley 2 Comments

Eureka! Almost being clocked on the head by a large framed print (of the Renaissance scholar, Erasmus) gave Kevin Densley the idea for this week’s poem.

Almanac Music: Scenes from an Australian Eden – The Seekers Performing ‘Turn, Turn, Turn’ at Chateau Yaldara, Barossa Valley, 1967

February 17, 2023 by Kevin Densley 4 Comments

In 1967, for a TV show, The Seekers filmed a version of ‘Turn, Turn, Turn’ at Chateau Yaldara in the Barossa Valley. KD elaborates upon this beautiful song performed in a lovely setting.

Almanac Poetry: Archangel

February 13, 2023 by Kevin Densley Leave a Comment

Kevin Densley’s poem this week references the Archangel Gabriel, Mary and the Annunciation; ‘the basic concerns here are beauty and tenderness’.

Almanac Life: First Car

February 10, 2023 by Kevin Densley 26 Comments

A person’s first car is a milestone event. In this Friday’s piece, KD talks about his, a 1962 Ford Anglia, and invites Almanackers to share their own ‘first car’ stories.

Almanac Poetry: The Musician and the Boy

February 6, 2023 by Kevin Densley Leave a Comment

This week’s poem from Kevin Densley was inspired by the time he played in his school brass band.

Almanac Music: ‘I Forgot to Remember to Forget’ – It Began with Elvis

February 3, 2023 by Kevin Densley 9 Comments

In this week’s Friday piece, KD looks at six versions of a song that was Elvis Presley’s first Number 1 hit and recorded down the years by numerous other artists, including Johnny Cash and The Beatles.

Almanac Poetry: Amherst Wisdom

January 30, 2023 by Kevin Densley 2 Comments

Kevin Densley based this poem upon a line from a well-known Emily Dickinson poem; Dickinson (1830-1886) was born and lived most of her life in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Almanac Music: Six Heartland Songs

January 27, 2023 by Kevin Densley 19 Comments

In this Friday’s piece, KD puts forward six of what he calls ‘heartland’ songs, in other words, six songs that ‘get him where he lives’. He encourages Almanac readers to respond with some of their own.

Almanac Poetry: Journey into the Underworld

January 23, 2023 by Kevin Densley Leave a Comment

Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote that “Hell is other people.” In this wry poem, Kevin Densley observes that it can be as simple as one mate’s dunny!

Almanac Poetry: Unsolved Murder at the Fun-o-Rama

December 19, 2022 by Kevin Densley Leave a Comment

This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is loosely based on an infamous unsolved murder that took place about fifty years ago in a locale where he grew up.