Sigmund Freud famously described dreams as a disguised version of a repressed wish. Today’s poem by Kevin Densley is a jokey take on this idea.
Almanac Poetry: Old Regret
November 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
‘There was movement at the station…’ This previously unpublished poem from KD takes as its point of departure the name of the stallion mentioned in Banjo Paterson’s famous poem ‘The Man from Snowy River’.
Almanac Music: ‘Calling Occupants’ – Songs Involving Planets
November 21, 2025 by 91 Comments
The latest installment in KD’s popular music odyssey concerns songs involving planets. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry (and Cricket): Wide long on
November 17, 2025 by 1 Comment
John Gordon recalls the changes that mark the passing cricket seasons of a players years – from the full-on investment of youth to a fading presence in the later years until a time beyond the boundary line calls.
Almanac Poetry: Backyard Internationals
November 14, 2025 by 2 Comments
Glenn Butcher re-produces a poem he wrote before the Ashes series of 2010-11 reflecting the ‘backyard internationals’ he played with his brother..
Almanac Poetry: Gough
November 12, 2025 by 4 Comments
‘He was a tall man, he was a very tall man’, states Michael Pardy with one of his thoughts in his poem, ‘Gough’.
The Bishop, the Nun and the Matador
November 11, 2025 by 2 Comments
A poem from Damian Ballasone about a bishop, a nun, and a matador.
Almanac Poetry: Ann Arbor, Michigan
November 10, 2025 by 4 Comments
What’s in a name? Sometimes everything. Some place names are beautiful in themselves, this week’s poem by Kevin Densley concerns one of them.
Almanac Poetry: Cracker Night
November 4, 2025 by 24 Comments
Kevin Densley remembers that one night of the year – November 5th – when many parents allowed their kids the recreational use of small, dangerous explosives … (worthy of reprising – ed)
Almanac Poetry: ‘The Race That Stopped A Nation’ by Patrick Smith
November 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Today is the running of one of the world’s greatest horse races, The Melbourne Cup. Patrick Smith recalls in verse the circumstances surrounding Damien Oliver’s win on Media Puzzle in 2002, ‘The Race That Stopped A Nation’.
Almanac Poetry: The Story of Fisher’s Ghost Creek
November 3, 2025 by 5 Comments
‘Tis the season (of sorts); Kevin Densley follows on from his spooky Halloween poem with a reprise of an older work on Fisher’s Ghost Creek.
Almanac Poetry: All Hallows’ Eve
October 31, 2025 by 5 Comments
On October 31, for a number of years now, Kevin Densley has posted a Halloween poem on the Almanac website – here’s his latest one, written very recently. The poem offers a take on the spiritual, as opposed to gimmicky, side of All Hallows’ Eve.
The Gambler
October 28, 2025 by 7 Comments
As it is Spring Carnival time we reprise a selection of verse from Damian Balassone related to the pros and cons of ‘The Gambler’. The selection was first first published in 2024.
Almanac Poetry: The Horror, The Horror, And A Great Ugliness Is Born
October 27, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Densley describes this Monday’s poem, previously unpublished, as ‘toilet humour’.
Almanac Music: ‘King of Pain’ – Songs Involving Kings and/or Queens
October 24, 2025 by 175 Comments
This installment of KD’s long-running series on popular song themes focuses upon songs involving kings and/or queens. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: That Thunderclap Blow
October 20, 2025 by 1 Comment
Kevin Densley describes this week’s poem as ‘very much in the “carpe diem” category, in a roundabout way’.
Larrikin Lorikeets
October 17, 2025 by 8 Comments
Summer time is fun time for larrikin lorikeets notes Damian Balassone.
Almanac Poetry: Big Bopper Junior Meets His Late Father
October 13, 2025 by 4 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley, previously unpublished, deals with the unusual way The Big Bopper’s son ‘met’ his father – even though born months after the famous man’s death on ‘the day the music died’ in 1959.
Almanac Poetry: Thailand Silk
October 6, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This poem from Kevin Densley is about his mother’s friend who served in the Vietnam War.
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