According to Wikipedia, in ancient Greek myth and religion, Dionysus is ‘God of wine, vegetation, fertility, festivity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre’. Quite a collection of responsibilities! KD’s poem deals humorously with this well-known god of excess.
Grand Final Weddings
June 5, 2024 by 15 Comments
Damian Balassone is at his cheeky best with this insight into what really matters at the end of September.
Almanac Music: ‘Let There Be Rock’ – Songs That Reference Rock and Roll
May 31, 2024 by 158 Comments
In this installment of KD’s long-running series about popular song, the theme is songs that reference rock and roll. As usual, readers’ responses are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Shapeshifter
May 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley concerns shapeshifting – an ability, often represented in the arts, to transform oneself into something else.
Almanac Poetry: Freud’s Famous Case Histories
May 20, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This week, it’s an unpublished poem from KD’s archives, written long ago, based upon his university study of Sigmund (not James!) Freud.
Almanac Music: ‘Here Comes the…’ – Songs Involving the Sun
May 17, 2024 by 145 Comments
In this instalment of his long-running series about popular music themes, KD deals with songs involving the sun. As usual, readers’ responses are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Footfall
May 16, 2024 by Leave a Comment
The changing face of footy is the focal point of Tony’s take on the game over the decades. There seem to be more questions than answers these days.
Almanac Poetry: Golf – 5
May 15, 2024 by 4 Comments
With our attention drawn to the Aurora in the sky, this new poem from Pards references the time when golf was first played on the moon
Almanac Poetry: As Happy as Larry
May 13, 2024 by Leave a Comment
In this poem from KD, a bloke named Larry is a happy man.
Almanac Music and Poetry: Remembering Gordon Lightfoot
May 12, 2024 by Leave a Comment
With the anniversary of the great Gordon Lightfoot’s passing recently, this poem came to mind for James Walton when it first happened, and again now.
Almanac Poetry: This/That
May 6, 2024 by 2 Comments
Kevin Densley describes this week’s contribution as a ‘poem about opposites’.
Almanac Music: ‘My Huckleberry Friend’ – Songs about the Moon
May 3, 2024 by 168 Comments
In the latest instalment of his long-running series on popular music themes, KD look at songs involving the moon. As usual, readers’ responses are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Happy Families
April 29, 2024 by 2 Comments
Tolstoy famously wrote: ‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ In this week’s poem, Kevin Densley weighs in on the issue.
Round 6 – Haiku Bob: plastered
April 25, 2024 by 1 Comment
Haiku Bob captures the essence of Autumn, player peculiarities and Collingwood’s comeback win – all in one haiku!
Almanac Poetry: A Very Minor Composer Speaks
April 22, 2024 by 2 Comments
In this poem, the speaker is a third-rate music composer, who in football parlance, according to KD, ‘would be lucky to make it onto the bench in the reserves’. [These aren’t the droids you’re looking for – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: Wedding Party Photograph: the Marriage of Lucy Jane R— to Edward Thomas P—, the town of P—, South Australia, December 20th, 1905
April 15, 2024 by 2 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley focuses upon a family wedding photograph taken in a South Australian country town in 1905.
Almanac Poetry: Golf – 4
April 12, 2024 by 3 Comments
A golf poem written by Michael Pardy while listening to Mr James Brown who grew up in Parkway Drive about 3 miles from the course.
Almanac Music: ‘Gimme a Head with Hair’ – Songs about Hair
April 12, 2024 by 163 Comments
Yeah yeah! This week, the theme is hair in Kevin Densley’s long-running series focusing upon popular song.
Round 4 – Haiku Bob: cheers and jeers
April 11, 2024 by 1 Comment
Images and emotions swirled wildly as Haiku Bob watched his Pies win unconvincingly in Gather Round.
Almanac (Footy) Poetry: The karma of gathering
April 10, 2024 by 2 Comments
We introduce Simon de Frankston, who had to be coaxed into publishing – and then he asked if we paid a fee. The exchange is recounted in the introduction to this, the only footy poem he’s ever written, which enters haiku territory in its final lines. (There will be more poetry from him, no doubt.) Worth a read for the observations of coaches alone. [Welcome SdeR – we’ve been waiting a long time.]
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