This Monday’s poem from KD, previously unpublished, concerns a fox that was too friendly for its own good. [Contains mild coarse language – Ed]
Almanac Poetry: To Deirdre of My Sorrows
January 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
‘Throw Irish myth and a painful, long-remembered youthful dalliance together and this might be what comes out,’ – Kevin Densley in relation to this Monday poem.
Almanac Music: Put A Ring On It – Songs about Jewellery
January 12, 2024 by 72 Comments
KD is back for 2024 with his usual Friday column. This week’s topic is songs about jewellery. As usual, readers’ responses are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Wednesday Evening, St Matthew’s Anglican Church, East Geelong
January 8, 2024 by 6 Comments
KD is back after his annual break with a poem about Evensong.
Almanac Poetry: Contemplation upon the Death Mask of Alban Berg
December 4, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley tells the beautiful story behind the final work of Austrian twentieth century composer, Alban Berg.
Almanac Poetry: Hooray for Hollywood
November 27, 2023 by 2 Comments
What are so many TV and movie stars of yesteryear doing now? Kevin Densley paints a picture.
Almanac Music: You Wear it Well – Songs about Clothes
November 24, 2023 by 214 Comments
Today, KD’s piece on popular music themes concerns songs about clothes. As usual, readers are warmly encouraged to contribute song choices of their own in the ‘Comments’ section.
Almanac Poetry: Death 101
November 20, 2023 by 2 Comments
One of the twentieth century’s best poets is Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), according to Kevin Densley. In this poem, he reflects upon her late work, much of which seems to point to her tragic end.
Almanac Poetry: Elsternwick Gothic
November 13, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This Monday’s poem from Kevin Densley is set in the Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick, where the skies can suddenly turn strange and other-worldly.
Almanac Poetry: John Keats Was Right
November 6, 2023 by Leave a Comment
In this week’s offering, Kevin Densley takes as his inspiration a line from ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, an iconic poem by one of the greatest poets in the English language, John Keats. [You should see what was left out of this excerpt – Ed]
Almanac Music: Songs About Mail
November 3, 2023 by 47 Comments
In his ongoing series about popular music themes, KD writes about songs involving mail – letters, posties, mail in general…
Almanac Poetry: Manly Ferry in Thunderstorm
October 30, 2023 by 6 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is drawn from a frightening experience he had when last in Sydney, in 1997.
Almanac Book Review: The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney
October 23, 2023 by 4 Comments
With Paul McCartney touring locally (for possibly the last time) Kevin Densley’s review of the music man’s monumental, two-volume boxed set, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present is being reprised. Get Back to the words behind the songs before Macca and friends become a Band on the Run home.
Almanac Music: You Go To My Head – Songs Involving the Mind
October 20, 2023 by 44 Comments
This week’s music piece from KD concerns songs involving the mind as a central aspect. As usual, readers’ choices and comments are warmly encouraged.
Almanac Poetry: Painterly
October 16, 2023 by Leave a Comment
In this poem, Kevin Densley writes about the beautiful colour that the sky sometimes turns after a thunderstorm.
Almanac Poetry: Two Portraits
October 9, 2023 by 3 Comments
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley was inspired by two photos on a wall in a mate’s house, as well as by lines from the Joni Mitchell song, ‘Woodstock’.
Almanac Music: Songs about Trains
October 6, 2023 by 79 Comments
In this Friday’s music piece, KD discusses songs about trains and, as usual, warmly welcomes reader contributions.
Almanac Poetry: In the Manner of C. P. E. Bach
October 2, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Densley’s poem today is about getting Bach to basics; Johann Sebastian Bach had twenty children from two wives. A number of his sons also became famous musicians, of those this mentions three.
Almanac Poetry: Beautiful Submerged Things
September 25, 2023 by 2 Comments
Women, painting, literature, theatre and drowning make for a heady waterlogged mix in this week’s poem by Kevin Densley.
Almanac Music: Songs about Roads
September 22, 2023 by 74 Comments
This week’s music piece from KD concerns songs that mention roads in the title, whether they be specifically highways, streets, avenues, boulevards, esplanades or similar infrastructure.
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