This week’s poem from Kevin Densley involves his maternal grandfather’s backyard shed. “Its walls were lined with empty bottles,” according to KD.
“The full ones didn’t last very long.”
Almanac Music: My Favourite Drummers – Karen Carpenter
December 10, 2021 by 4 Comments
Today’s piece by KD is his second in a series about his favourite drummers – the wonderfully talented Karen Carpenter features.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Fly’ – Tommy Mallet
December 7, 2021 by Leave a Comment
A fly is a troublesome pest for a bushman as he works suggests Tommy Mallet’s poem, ‘Fly’.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Waking in the Blue’ – Maria Takolander
November 30, 2021 by 2 Comments
‘Waking in the Blue’by Maria Takolander is a powerful and personal account of a childhood experience. Maria is a fiction writer, poet, essayist, independent scholar, public artist, reviewer, and interviewer, and recently released a new poetry collection, ‘Trigger Warning’.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Pen Pals’ – Tommy Mallet
November 30, 2021 by 1 Comment
Correspondence between pen pals highlights the plight of a friend and the hardships she is dealing with in Tommy Mallet’s poem, ‘Pen Pals’.
Almanac Poetry: A Little Night Music
November 29, 2021 by Leave a Comment
This Monday’s poem from Kevin Densley was inspired by a well-known Mozart composition and night-time in general.
Almanac Humour: A Visit by the England Football Team
November 26, 2021 by 2 Comments
In this Friday’s post, KD shares what he considers to be one of the funniest brief pieces of sports humour he’s ever read.
Almanac Poetry: ‘People’ – Tommy Mallet
November 23, 2021 by Leave a Comment
The crim, the writer, the barred lawyer, the thugs, and the one sure to be a mass murderer, are among the many characters introduced in ‘People’, an epic poem by Tommy Mallet. [Language warning – Ed]
Almanac Poetry: Death of a Bantam
November 22, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Today, Kevin Densley’s poem is on love, death and a nobly-lived life.
Almanac Music: Best Cover of An Elvis Hit
November 19, 2021 by 6 Comments
In this Friday’s column, KD writes about his nomination for the best cover version of an Elvis Presley hit: ‘Always On My Mind’ by the Pet Shop Boys. Further research told him he was certainly not alone in this opinion.
Hollywood Hair Cycle
November 17, 2021 by 1 Comment
This poem from Damian Balassone reflects on hair loss and the cycle of life.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Everything Slowing’ – Tommy Mallet
November 16, 2021 by Leave a Comment
The slowness of time in the bush Tommy Mallet reflects upon in his poem, ‘Everything Slowing’.
Almanac Poetry: Murray Cod
November 15, 2021 by 2 Comments
In this week’s poem, Kevin Densley looks at Australia’s most iconic indigenous fish, and one of the largest freshwater varieties in the world – the Murray Cod.
Almanac History and Poetry: Two Remembrance Day Offerings
November 11, 2021 by Leave a Comment
To commemorate a Remembrance Day theme, we revisit a couple of earlier contributions from Kevin Densley about Capt. Bert James and Capt. Albert Jacka VC.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Peanuts and Bread’ – Tommy Mallet
November 9, 2021 by Leave a Comment
The power of the wind in the bush can be awesome as Tommy Mallet’s poem ‘Peanuts and Bread’ shows.
Almanac Poetry: Kitchen
November 8, 2021 by Leave a Comment
The kitchen is far from a bastion of domestic bliss, moreso a den of violence in this week’s poem from Kevin Densley.
Almanac Teams: A Real Bushrangers’ Australian Test Cricket Eleven
November 5, 2021 by 9 Comments
As cricket season is now here, KD puts forward an Australian Test cricket team of historical bushrangers, as a companion piece to his Almanac post where he selected a real bushrangers’ football team.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Finding Me’ – Robyn Black
November 2, 2021 by Leave a Comment
‘Seeing Me’ is a poem of finding self by Robyn Black from her most recent release ‘No Straight Lines’.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Jono’ – Tommy Mallet
November 2, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Mateship in the bush is the theme of Tommy Mallet’s poem, ‘Jono’.
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