Continuing his extensive series of theme-related music pieces, this week Kevin Densley explores ‘Songs About Dancing.’ As usual, readers are warmly encouraged to add their own choices and comments.
Almanac Poetry: The Fish of Geelong
July 3, 2023 by 4 Comments
The mind of a twelve-year-old can contain a wealth of information about the natural world, particularly of their surrounding environment. This new piscine preoccupied poem from Kevin Densley contains childhood memories of fish from his home town, Geelong – and it’s certainly a very long list!
Almanac Poetry: ‘Ernie’ – Bill Wootton
June 29, 2023 by 1 Comment
Bill Wootton pays tribute to the late Ernie Hug, the former Collingwood player with huge hands.
Almanac Poetry: Going to America (for Einar Eugene Smith)
June 20, 2023 by 10 Comments
Jane Greenwood’s second poem for the Almanac is in memory of Einar Smith.
Myths
June 20, 2023 by 3 Comments
Damian Balassone presents a collection of short poems related to the theme of myths.
Almanac Poetry: Quietly Neurotic Domestic Interior
June 19, 2023 by 6 Comments
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley was influenced by ‘the work of Kafka and Munch, among others, and the general issue of alienation’.
‘Happy reading’, KD adds, tongue-in-cheek.
Almanac Poetry: The Gift (for Noel Pearson)
June 6, 2023 by 14 Comments
Jane Greenwood is a Brisbane writer and poet. ‘The Gift’ is the first poem she’s published on our site. [Welcome Jane – JTH]
Almanac Poetry: Rat Sonnet
June 5, 2023 by 2 Comments
In writing this poem, KD declares the common rat ‘sonnet-worthy’, even if the kind of sonnet he has employed is of a decidedly modern kind.
Almanac Poetry: Beata Beatrix (Blessed Beatrice)
May 29, 2023 by 2 Comments
Kevin Densley based this poem upon the nineteenth century painting, Beata Beatrix by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in part a memorial to the artists’s wife.
Almanac Poetry: Michelangelo Antonioni’s ‘Deserto Rosso’
May 22, 2023 by Leave a Comment
In this poem, Kevin Densley examines a great ‘art film’ of the 1960s, Michaelangelo Antonioni’s ‘Deserto Rosso’ (‘Red Desert’).
Almanac Music: Women and Men, and Songs: Part 2 – Songs Featuring a Male Name
May 19, 2023 by 54 Comments
In Part 2 of ‘Women and Men, and Songs’, KD focuses upon songs which highlight a male name. As usual, Almanackers are encouraged to put forward their own selections.
Almanac Poetry: A Poem (Almost) Writes Itself
May 15, 2023 by Leave a Comment
From a wellspring as deep as eternity – this poem from Kevin Densley concerns the way writing can bubble up from a quiet place within.
Almanac Music: Women and Men, and Songs: Part 1 – Songs Featuring a Female Name
May 12, 2023 by 77 Comments
In this week’s piece, KD focuses upon songs which highlight female names. As usual, Almanackers are encouraged to put forward their own choices. (Part 2 of the piece, dealing with songs featuring male names, will appear next week.)
Almanac Poetry: fragments
May 8, 2023 by 2 Comments
Some days it’s better to do nothing in particular, according to today’s poem from Kevin Densley.
Round 7 – Haiku Bob: voices carry
May 5, 2023 by 3 Comments
Another close one for the Pies as Haiku Bob reflects on Collingwood’s win over Adelaide and the pleasure of ‘driving home the little bump of a flattened crow’.
Almanac Poetry: Fighting Words
May 1, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This poem by Kevin Densley concerns his father, poetry, reading and a boxing great. [Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this contains the image of a deceased person.]
Almanac Music: Instrumentals
April 28, 2023 by 47 Comments
In this Friday’s piece, KD looks at instrumentals of the rock / pop era, and, as usual, welcomes feedback from Almanac readers.
Round 5 – Haiku Bob: the gauntlet
April 21, 2023 by 2 Comments
Haiku Bob reviews the Collingwood v St Kilda Gather Round match in verse though the Saints comeback did give him some nervous moments.
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