Kevin Densley shares a poem on youthful fantasy…what might have been, but for reality.
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
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.
Almanac Music: Songs About Dancing
July 6, 2023 by 33 Comments
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.
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