Ever tried to build a plastic model plane when you were a kid? Kevin Densley did, and this poem talks about the results. [Quite relatable – Ed]
Almanac Poetry: Happy Families
August 14, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is about families. Of course, they’re by no means perfect!
Coleraine Races: in the footsteps of Adam Lindsay Gordon
August 12, 2023 by 14 Comments
The Great Western Steeplechase will be run in Coleraine tomorrow (Sunday). It’s timely to reprise Roger Lowrey’s piece from 2019…
Following in the footsteps of Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, Roger Lowrey has been to the Coleraine races where the longest continuous race (that is, the one that has been stage annually for the longest sequence) in the Southern Hemisphere occurs.
Almanac Music: Songs with One Word Titles (No Personal Names or Places)
August 11, 2023 by 67 Comments
This week’s music theme from KD is songs with one word titles – but in the comments section, readers, no songs with names of people or places, please. Songs relevant to these topics have been covered to some extent in other Footy Almanac articles Kevin has written.
Round 21 – Haiku Bob: cooling pies
August 10, 2023 by 3 Comments
Haiku Bob is trying to not allow old feelings to cloud his current hopes for the Pies after their unexpected loss to the Hawks.
Watching You Eat
August 8, 2023 by 5 Comments
A poem from Damian Balassone featuring sweets, defeat, and eunuchs!
Almanac Poetry: The Youthful, Secret, Utterly Fanciful Desire to Have Sex with the Long Dead Female Subject of a Literary Biography
August 7, 2023 by 5 Comments
Kevin Densley shares a poem on youthful fantasy…what might have been, but for reality.
Almanac Music: Songs with Whistling in Them
August 4, 2023 by 52 Comments
This week’s theme in KD’s ongoing series on popular songs is songs that contain whistling. As usual, readers are warmly encouraged to put forward their own selections and comments.
Almanac Poetry: Rewriting, Reliving
July 31, 2023 by 3 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley addresses the issue of our past: can we ever relive it, to try to make what happened then better?
Almanac Music: Australian Place Name Songs
July 28, 2023 by 52 Comments
This week, the theme in KD’s ongoing series concerning popular songs is ‘Australian Place Name Songs’; in other words, any song highlighting an Australian place name is relevant. As usual, readers contributions are warmly welcomed.
Round 19 – ‘winter grin’: haiku bob
July 26, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Another nail baiting win for Collingwood is recounted by haiku bob in verse.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Go see Joe’
July 26, 2023 by Leave a Comment
In his aviators, Smokin’ Joe from West Altona is the epitome of cool implies Pards in his verse.
Almanac Poetry: ‘The Pearl’ for Miriam Dunn
July 25, 2023 by 2 Comments
Jane Greenwood’s third poem here at the Almanac is ‘The Pearl’, which she wrote for her teaching colleague and friend, Miriam Dunn.
Almanac (Prose) Poetry: House by the Sea
July 24, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poetic proffering from Kevin Densley is a rich, evocative and enigmatic prose poem.
Almanac (Cricket) Poetry: ‘These Baggy Greens’ by Patrik Klika Dempsey
July 20, 2023 by 2 Comments
The reputation of the Baggy Green has taken a battering during the current Ashes series. Prague-based journalist, philosopher and poet Patrik Klika Dempsey offers this reflection.
Almanac Poetry: Paris, 1877
July 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Continuing the French flavour of his most recent Almanac music post, KD’s poem this week depicts the Paris of Julius LeBlanc Stewart’s wonderfully decadent, colourful nineteenth century painting, Twilight on the Terrace, Paris.
Almanac Music: The French Connection
July 14, 2023 by 33 Comments
This week’s music piece by KD concerns songs with French content that were successful in English-speaking countries. As usual, readers are warmly invited to contribute their own choices.
Round 17 – Haiku Bob: pull of the moon
July 12, 2023 by 1 Comment
Haiku Bob recounts the enthralling game at Docklands where the Pies came back from a halftime deficit to remain hot favourites this season.
Almanac Poetry: My Raven
July 10, 2023 by 7 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley, ‘draws upon one symbolic meaning of the raven – survival. This meaning can be gleaned from the Old Testament Book of Genesis.’ The raven is the initial bird Noah released from the ark to look for land after the cataclysmic flooding rains ceased.
Almanac (Ashes) Poetry: ‘Jonny’s walk’ – Bill Wootton
July 6, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Ruse Faulkner (Bill Wootton) offers a poetic comment on the Bairstow incident and what has followed.
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