In this Monday’s poem, KD looks at religion, physicality and art.
Almanac Music (Lyrics): Oils Are Definitely Not Oils
April 5, 2024 by 2 Comments
This Friday it’s a music parody from KD – Midnight Oil get the treatment.
Round 3 – Haiku Bob: Jamie and the moon
April 3, 2024 by Leave a Comment
After the obscurity of three successive defeats, Haiku Bob finally saw a glimpse of the mountaintop after Collingwood downed the Lions.
Tanami Pre-game
April 2, 2024 by 3 Comments
The middle of the Northern Territory, the deserts of the Warlpiri provide backdrop to Damian Balassone’s piece.
Almanac Music; ‘You Go To My Head’ – Songs about Drink
March 29, 2024 by 183 Comments
In this installment of his long running series on popular song themes, KD focuses upon songs involving drinks – both alcoholic and non-alcoholic.
Hebrew Couplets
March 26, 2024 by 20 Comments
With Easter this weekend Damian Balassone presents his ‘Hebrew Couplets’ with tongue firmly in his cheek.
Almanac Poetry: Trapped
March 25, 2024 by 2 Comments
This Monday’s poem from Kevin Densley concerns a situation so many of us have been in – feeling very uncomfortable at a party because a particular person is present.
Almanac Music: ‘Eat the Music’ – Songs Involving Food
March 22, 2024 by 196 Comments
This week, in his ongoing series on popular music themes, KD focuses upon songs involving food. As usual, readers’ contributions are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Please Feed the Macaws … I’m Feeling Too Indolent’ – Book Review
March 22, 2024 by 2 Comments
Well known and respected poet Kevin Densley recently released his latest collection of poetry, ‘Please Feed the Macaws … I’m Feeling Too Indolent’. Col Ritchie presents his review of this wonderful collection of verse.
Almanac Poetry: Golf – 3
March 20, 2024 by 5 Comments
After almost getting a birdie, Pards ponders the difficulties of becoming Tiger Woods as expressed in his latest golfing poem.
Round 1 – Haiku Bob: sliver of light
March 19, 2024 by 4 Comments
Haiku Bob is back for the footy season! His first offering reflects upon that sliver of light of hope as defeat bears down on his team.
Nymph of Ningaloo
March 19, 2024 by 2 Comments
A poem from Damian Balassone’s collection ‘Chime’, Nymph of Ningaloo.
Almanac Poetry: Good Old Unca
March 18, 2024 by 2 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is an unpublished one from the archives, about an era when it was more likely that a relative down on their luck was staying in your granny flat – and giving every indication that they’d never leave!
Almanac Music: ‘We’d Go Down to the River’ – Songs Concerning Rivers
March 8, 2024 by 146 Comments
In this Friday’s installment of KD’s ongoing series about popular music themes, the topic is songs concerning rivers. As usual, readers are warmly welcomed to put forward their own contributions.
Almanac Poetry: Golf 2
March 7, 2024 by 5 Comments
Michael Pardy is back on the golf course and pens an ode to his Dunlop Hot Spot Number 2 which survived a complete round of golf without being lost.
Almanac Memoir: Knowing Hazel
March 4, 2024 by 3 Comments
Instead of a poem, KD shares a short memoir about his late friend, internationally renowned writer and biographer, Dr Hazel Rowley, who died in Manhattan in March 2011. Rowley wrote biographies of authors Christina Stead and Richard Wright, as well as non-fiction works about iconic twentieth century couples Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Almanac Music: ‘Rooms on Fire’: Songs about Houses and Rooms
March 1, 2024 by 227 Comments
In this Friday’s music piece, KD deals with songs about the spaces in which we live – houses, flats, apartments and the rooms within. As usual, readers’ contributions are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: The Arnolfini Divorce
February 26, 2024 by 4 Comments
In this week’s poem, previously unpublished, Kevin Densley takes a famous fifteenth century European painting as the starting point for a twentieth century Australian immigration story.
Almanac Poetry: 6 Canterbury Street
February 19, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem, according to Kevin Densley, is ‘mainly about loneliness’.
Almanac Poetry: Haiku Bob event readings
February 13, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Haiku Bob will be reading his haiku at an event at the Collingwood Yards this Saturday, 17 February.
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