Footballers’ nicknames aren’t as interesting and colourful as they used to be, KD laments. In a creative mood, he invents a new one for a Port Adelaide player, as an example of the way ahead.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Eddie Betts’s Shorts’ – Steve Rogers
May 11, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Steve Rogers expresses his love of footy with memories of icons of the game, especially Eddie Betts’s shorts.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Fake Bacon’ – Tommy Mallet
May 11, 2021 by 1 Comment
The bush workers are famished, the cupboard is bare, the drink is talking as frustrations take over, and a dusty moth is oblivious to it all. Check out Tommy Mallet’s poem, ‘Fake Bacon’. [Warning: adult themes – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: In the Good Old Days
May 11, 2021 by Leave a Comment
This Tuesday’s poem from Kevin Densley concerns the typical profile of a serial killer back in ‘the good old days’.
Epitaph for a Triathlete
May 7, 2021 by 3 Comments
Sometimes you can’t have it all, as this Damian Balassone poem reflects.
Round 7 – Haiku Bob – blank spaces
May 7, 2021 by 2 Comments
The sun was shining, but Magpie hearts were darkening. Haiku Bob reflects on the Round 7 loss to Gold Coast.
Almanac Poetry: ‘The German’ – Tommy Mallet
May 4, 2021 by 1 Comment
The bush is home for many people, a place to get away from it all, while for some, it’s a place to hide away from society like ‘The German’ in Tommy Mallet’s poem.
Almanac Poetry: Great Literary Fistfights of the Twentieth Century
May 4, 2021 by 3 Comments
When two giants of twentieth century American literature faced off (poet Wallace Stevens and ‘he-man’ Ernest Hemingway), it was no question who was really the winner.
Almanac (Footy) Poetry: When Tom Papley Beat The Whole World
May 4, 2021 by 7 Comments
John Harms observed a rare moment of (footy) purity from Sydney’s Tom Papley.
Almanac Humour: Words That Make You Squirm
April 30, 2021 by 14 Comments
Do you have words that make you squirm? KD certainly does, and writes about one of them.
Round 6 – Haiku Bob: The first wreath
April 29, 2021 by 3 Comments
Haiku Bob observed similarities between the observance of Anzac Day and the decline of his Magpies when he took in their recent clash with the Bombers.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Wine Belly’ – Tommy Mallet
April 27, 2021 by 1 Comment
‘Wine Belly’ is Tommy Mallet’s poem telling of the drunken peril staggering home late on a cold, still night, a time when the mind comes out to play.
Almanac Poetry: Brother and Sister
April 27, 2021 by 4 Comments
This Tuesday’s poem from Kevin Densley, ‘Brother and Sister’, can be seen as a postscript to his Anzac Day piece about eight Australian soldiers, ‘The Great War – AIF suite’– this time the poem involves a Victorian country town, a great-grandmother he can’t remember meeting, and her brother who died as a German POW in France in 1916.
Almanac Poetry: Annabelle – Tommy Mallet
April 22, 2021 by 7 Comments
Tommy Mallet, with a poem about Annabelle. And Tibbie. (Contains adult content – Ed)
Almanac Poetry: Forget the Metaphor
April 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment
In this Tuesday’s poem, Kevin Densley points out the basic ‘error’ in Aesop’s famous fable involving the tortoise and the hare.
Almanac Poetry: Platinum Blonde
April 13, 2021 by Leave a Comment
This week’s intriguing poem from Kevin Densley is about 1930s Hollywood glamour icon, Jean Harlow, who died tragically young.
Almanac Comedy: ‘Mo Goes to the Dogs’
April 9, 2021 by 6 Comments
Kevin Densley introduces an episode of the classic Australian radio comedy series, McCackie Mansion, from just after WW2, starring the legendary actor/comedian Mo. In this episode, Mo McCackie, his son, Young Harry, Uncle Horrible and Spencer the Garbageman go to the Harold Park dogs – KD describes it as “seven and a half minutes of hilarious, nostalgic joy”.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Magpie versus Crow’ – Tommy Mallet
April 6, 2021 by 1 Comment
A battle for territory between magpies and crow is the topic of Tommy Mallet’s poem, ‘Magpie versus Crow’.
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