Haiku Bob reflects on Collingwood’s loss while cooking, and with a good whisky.
Round 5 – There was a young team from SEQ
April 19, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Troy BOP is back with his view of the Round 5 matches in limerick.
Almanac Poetry: Joseph of Arimathea
April 18, 2022 by Leave a Comment
In keeping with Easter, this week’s poem from Kevin Densley is his take on Joseph of Arimathea, who, according to all four canonical gospels, was the man who took responsibility for Christ’s burial after his crucifixion.
Almanac Music: Deconstructing The Beatles’ Song ‘Rain’
April 15, 2022 by 2 Comments
In this Friday’s column, KD puts The Beatles song ‘Rain’ under the microscope, and concludes that it is ‘certainly one of the most influential songs of the 1960s, or maybe, the entire rock/pop era’, even if it was originally the B-side of the ‘Paperback Writer’ single.
Almanac Haiku: ‘The Ump’ – Bill Wootton
April 13, 2022 by Leave a Comment
We need them. Bill Wootton’s haiku offers insight into umpiring.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Tim’s Pain’ – Bill Wootton
April 12, 2022 by 1 Comment
Bill Wootton presents his thoughts of the Tim Paine controversy in verse.
Almanac Poetry: Bruce Dawe’s ‘Figgy: A portrait’ (For Kaye Liset)
April 11, 2022 by 7 Comments
John Harms’s old school mate Kaye Liset became good friends with Bruce and Liz Dawe in a somewhat novel way. Bruce wrote a poem about her dog.
Almanac Poetry: Chad Morgan, the Sheik of Scrubby Creek
April 11, 2022 by Leave a Comment
In this week’s poem, Kevin Densley deals with Australian country music legend Chad Morgan (Kevin stresses that the particular incidents mentioned in connection with the great man are ‘fictional’)
Almanac Music: Australian Country Music
April 8, 2022 by 10 Comments
In this Friday’s post, KD looks at Australian country music, especially the kind of songs his father listened to when he was a kid.
Round 3 – There once was a kick after the siren
April 5, 2022 by 4 Comments
Troy Brunel-O’Peerents reviews the Round 3 matches in verse.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Gerona Street Blues’ – Bill Wootton
April 5, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Bill Wootton’s poem ‘Gerona Street Blues’ reflects upon life in Keilor during an earlier time.
Round 2 – Haiku Bob: armchair ride
April 1, 2022 by 1 Comment
Haiku Bob reflects on some special moments from Round 2.
Almanac Poetry: ‘the live sherrin’ – Bill Wootton
March 29, 2022 by 1 Comment
Bill Wootton on that most animated of inanimate objects, the footy.
Almanac Music: Absolute Game Changers – A Song That Shook Your World
March 25, 2022 by 13 Comments
According to Kevin Densley, we all have a song that is an ‘absolute game changer’ for us, a particular one that shakes up our world and changes it in some fundamental way. He puts forward his own choice, and asks Almanackers to do the same.
There once was a round of footy: Edition 1.
March 23, 2022 by Leave a Comment
We welcome occasional rhymester and writer, the elusive Troy Brunel-O’Peerents who has chosen the poetic form of his homeland, Ireland, to report on Round 1 of the AFL season. We were not expecting match reports in haiku and we’ve been enjoying them for a decade. Now we’re rapt to be getting match reports as limericks.
Round 1 – St Kilda v Collingwood: Haiku Bob – autumn clarity
March 22, 2022 by 3 Comments
Haiku Bob is back with a footy haiku about the Collingwood win over St Kilda.
1986
March 22, 2022 by 6 Comments
Two stars crossed paths and missed the real show in the sky in Damian Balassone’s tongue in cheek look back at 1986.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Without Measure’ – Tommy Mallet
March 22, 2022 by Leave a Comment
‘Without Measure’ by Tommy Mallet reflects upon the future and worries about the legacy we leave our children.
Almanac Poetry: To Clarissa
March 21, 2022 by Leave a Comment
In Kevin Densley’s poem today, it’s as clear as the crystal waters of a low tide rock pool: ‘Nudity is a wonderful, natural thing – especially if that nudity belongs to someone else!’
Almanac Music: Extraordinary Musical Moments – Patti Smith Sings ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ at Bob Dylan’s Official Nobel Prize Ceremony, 2016
March 18, 2022 by 2 Comments
In this instalment of his ‘Extraordinary Musical Moments’ series, Kevin Densley discusses Patti Smith singing ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ at Bob Dylan’s official Nobel Prize ceremony in 2016. KD describes the occasion as both ‘wonderful’ and ‘notably imperfect’.
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