‘Tis the season (of sorts); Kevin Densley follows on from his spooky Halloween poem with a reprise of an older work on Fisher’s Ghost Creek.
Almanac Poetry: All Hallows’ Eve
October 31, 2025 by 5 Comments
On October 31, for a number of years now, Kevin Densley has posted a Halloween poem on the Almanac website – here’s his latest one, written very recently. The poem offers a take on the spiritual, as opposed to gimmicky, side of All Hallows’ Eve.
Almanac Poetry: The Horror, The Horror, And A Great Ugliness Is Born
October 27, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Densley describes this Monday’s poem, previously unpublished, as ‘toilet humour’.
Almanac Music: ‘King of Pain’ – Songs Involving Kings and/or Queens
October 24, 2025 by 175 Comments
This installment of KD’s long-running series on popular song themes focuses upon songs involving kings and/or queens. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: That Thunderclap Blow
October 20, 2025 by 1 Comment
Kevin Densley describes this week’s poem as ‘very much in the “carpe diem” category, in a roundabout way’.
Almanac Poetry: Big Bopper Junior Meets His Late Father
October 13, 2025 by 4 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley, previously unpublished, deals with the unusual way The Big Bopper’s son ‘met’ his father – even though born months after the famous man’s death on ‘the day the music died’ in 1959.
Almanac Poetry: Thailand Silk
October 6, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This poem from Kevin Densley is about his mother’s friend who served in the Vietnam War.
Almanac Music: ‘Doctor, My Eyes’ – Songs Involving Medicine
October 3, 2025 by 106 Comments
In this installment of his long-running series on popular song themes, Kevin Densley focuses upon songs involving medicine. The theme is seen in a broad way and could include songs mentioning doctors, nurses, names of particular medicines and the like. As usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Observing the Artist Observing
September 29, 2025 by 2 Comments
‘There is such a thing as too much,’ Kevin Densley says, in relation to this week’s poem. [Contains mild coarse language – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: The School of Brendan Behan
September 22, 2025 by 2 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley connects with hard-drinking Irish writer, Brendan Behan (1923-1964).
Almanac Poetry: Larkin’s Last Words
September 15, 2025 by 4 Comments
In this week’s poem, Kevin Densley looks at the alleged last words of one of his favourite poets, Philip Larkin (1922-1985).
Almanac Music: ‘Turn our faces to the West’ – Songs Around the Compass
September 12, 2025 by 116 Comments
The latest installment in KD’s long-running series on popular music themes involves songs connected to compass directions – north, south, east, west and all their variations. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: The Life and Death of Ben Hall
September 8, 2025 by 1 Comment
Over the years, KD has written and published a number of short poems about bushranger Ben Hall. Here, for the first time, is a longer, more complete take on Hall’s life, drawing from those earlier poems but also containing a considerable amount of new material.
Almanac Poetry: Postmodernism
September 1, 2025 by 9 Comments
In this week’s poem, KD offers a perspective on postmodernism, or PoMo in the parlance of SoHo mofos with FOMO.
Almanac Poetry: Matins
August 25, 2025 by 2 Comments
Kevin Densley describes this week’s poem as about a ‘morning scene in my earlier life comparable to a church service’.
Almanac Music: ‘Sitting in an English garden’ – Songs That Refer to Countries
August 22, 2025 by 165 Comments
In this installment of KD’s long-running series on popular music, the theme is songs that refer directly to countries. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Mitchell Library, Sydney, 1997
August 18, 2025 by 2 Comments
This week’s poem is a previously unpublished one from KD’s archives, dating from his last visit to Sydney in 1997, when he was in his thirties. [It is quite the location – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: In Expectation
August 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley deals with the build-up to a much-anticipated event, rather than the event itself.
Almanac Music: ‘Ring, Ring, Goes the Bell’ – Songs Involving School
August 8, 2025 by 78 Comments
In the latest installment of KD’s long-running series on popular music, the theme is school. Readers’ song choices and comments are, as usual, warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Eurotrash
August 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Previously unpublished, Kevin Densley’s poem is set around the turn of the new millennium when the Euro was the new currency on the block and Eurodance music had replaced New Kids on the Block.
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