Haiku Bob’s annual AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai has been another great success. Check out the results.
Almanac Short Fiction: ‘Bostell’s Lager Man’
October 30, 2020 by 4 Comments
The opening of Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’, in which Gregor Samsa awakes from uneasy sleep to find himself transformed into a giant bug, receives an unusual twist in this short story from Kevin Densley. Is KD’s piece a strange cautionary tale? An example of ‘the Aussie surreal’? A modern Aesop’s fable with its origins in the brewery? You be the judge.
Almanac Poetry: ‘An Old Man’ – C.P. Cavafy
October 27, 2020 by 3 Comments
C P Cavafy, is a well known Greek poet who was prolific during the late 19th and early 20th century. ‘An Old Man’ reflects on time and wasted opportunities.
Almanac Poetry: The Car Chase in Films from Six Different Countries
October 27, 2020 by 1 Comment
A poem about cars speeding around six countries and all that entails is the subject of Kevin Densley’s poetry this week.
Almanac (Footy) Poetry: Fred Swift
October 23, 2020 by 3 Comments
Fred Swift captained Richmond’s premiership team in 1967, his last quarter goal-square mark a precursor of Leo Barry many years later. But was he over the goal-line? Bill Wootton captures it all in verse.
Finals Week 2 – Haiku Bob – a bit of life ends
October 21, 2020 by 1 Comment
Haiku Bob reflects on the end of Collingwood’s season.
Almanac Poetry: ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ – Philip Larkin
October 20, 2020 by 1 Comment
‘The Whitsun Weddings’ is another much loved poem by Philip Larkin.
Almanac Poetry: In a Kelly town museum
October 20, 2020 by 6 Comments
In today’s poem, Kevin Densley goes ‘a bit abstract’, to use his own words, with a Ned Kelly theme about going to a museum in Kelly Country as a kid and seeing two particularly interesting artefacts side by side.
The Half-Back Flankers
October 15, 2020 by 3 Comments
‘The Half Back Flankers’ is a poem from Damian Balassone’s recent publication, ‘Strange Game in a Strange Land’.
Almanac Poetry: Propinquity
October 13, 2020 by 6 Comments
One thousand, nine hundred and forty one years ago – almost to the day, according to some recent research – Mt Vesuvius’s most devastating eruption occurred. This week’s poem from Kevin Densley, ‘Propinquity’ deals with that catastrophe.
Almanac Poetry: ‘In Memoriam’ by Martin Johnston
October 13, 2020 by Leave a Comment
A new selection of poetry by Martin Johnston (1947 – 1990), ‘Beautiful Objects’ has been released on the thirtieth anniversary of his death.
Haiku Bob: The 2020 AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai
October 11, 2020 by 2 Comments
Haiku Bob is back to remind everyone of the upcoming Grand Final Haiku Kukai – get involved!
Finals Week 1 – Haiku Bob: from time to time
October 8, 2020 by 2 Comments
A finals classic had Haiku Bob reaching for the whisky; the result has him rethinking his plans for the spring.
Almanac Poetry: Michael Dransfield
October 6, 2020 by 4 Comments
Poet Michael Dransfield died far too young, ‘Philosophy of Movement’ is one of his many poems from the late 60s and early 70s.
Almanac Poetry: Thumbnail Sketch of the Great Roy Orbison
October 6, 2020 by 10 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is about the Big O, Roy Orbison – the Caruso of Rock.
Almanac Poetry: Deano
October 3, 2020 by 1 Comment
Steve Cotter, from the Clifton Hill CC, pays tribute to Dean Jones. Thanks to Steve’s teammate Andrew ‘Gigs’ Gigacz for alerting us to this poem.
Almanac Poetry: Country Football
October 3, 2020 by 10 Comments
‘Country Football’ by Philip Hodgins. Such a brilliant poem we quoted it in ‘Footy Town’. [This post is reprised from 2013]
Almanac Poetry: The Drop Kick
October 3, 2020 by 5 Comments
Philip Hodgins on the glorious drop kick.
Almanac Poetry Reflection: A Poem with Personal Significance (Discuss)
October 2, 2020 by 5 Comments
Kevin Densley invites Almanackers to share poems which have had an abiding presence in their lives, just as one by Gerard Manley Hopkins has stayed with him over the decades.
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