In today’s poem, Kevin Densley looks humorously at italics.
Almanac Poetry: Ode to Cigarettes Past
November 25, 2024 by 25 Comments
Following on from his latest music themed post, we reshare Kevin Densley’s look back on the “golden age” of cigarettes. A one-two punch of pungency if you will.
Almanac Music: ‘Have a Cigar’ – Songs Involving Smoking
November 22, 2024 by 88 Comments
In the latest instalment of his epic series on popular song themes, KD deals with songs involving smoking – cigarettes, cigars, pipes, whatever…
Almanac Poetry: Dat Ole Debble Called Redrafting
November 18, 2024 by 2 Comments
Every writer does it; some should do it more; others should do it less – in this Monday’s poem, KD deals with the subject of redrafting.
Almanac Poetry: Captain Albert Jacka, VC, MC and Bar
November 11, 2024 by 12 Comments
On another Remembrance Day – arguably at a time when the collective memory of war is most sorely tested – we reshare Kevin Densley’s poem on the iconic, heroic and ultimately tragic figure of Albert Jacka this week.
Almanac Music: ‘I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost’ – Songs with a Halloween Vibe
October 31, 2024 by 53 Comments
The latest instalment of KD’s epic series on popular song is ‘Songs with a Halloween Vibe’. As usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: A Pilgrimage to San Isidro
October 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley, previously unpublished, takes as its point of departure a disturbing late painting by Spanish master Francisco Goya.
Almanac Poetry: A Neurotic Worry
October 21, 2024 by 2 Comments
KD describes this week’s previously unpublished poem as follows: ‘It’s encapsulated in the title.’
Almanac Poetry: Concerning the ‘Talking Boony’
October 14, 2024 by 2 Comments
Cricket season is now here, so KD has delved into his archives and come up with a previously unpublished poem about the talking David Boon doll that was a big promotional success for VB about two decades ago.
Almanac Poetry: Larger Than Life
October 7, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is a previously unpublished one, written about one of his favourite artists, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti.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 150 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.
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