Where do you go when you’re having a bad match? It’s easy explains Damian Balasssone in his poem ‘Positional Change’.
Almanac Poetry: In Expectation
August 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley deals with the build-up to a much-anticipated event, rather than the event itself.
Almanac Music: ‘Ring, Ring, Goes the Bell’ – Songs Involving School
August 8, 2025 by 78 Comments
In the latest installment of KD’s long-running series on popular music, the theme is school. Readers’ song choices and comments are, as usual, warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Eurotrash
August 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Previously unpublished, Kevin Densley’s poem is set around the turn of the new millennium when the Euro was the new currency on the block and Eurodance music had replaced New Kids on the Block.
Almanac Poetry: Not Quite Yorick
July 28, 2025 by 2 Comments
Alas poor allegoric, it seems that death becomes him. This Monday’s poem by Kevin Densley contemplates the subject of death masks.
Almanac Music: ‘It’s always cold inside the icehouse’ – Songs Involving Ice
July 25, 2025 by 65 Comments
In this latest installment of his epic series on popular song themes, KD deals with songs involving ice (the frozen stuff, not the drug). As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Round 19 – Haiku Bob: brief notes
July 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
It could have…it should have…it didn’t. Haiku Bob on Collingwood’s narrow loss to the Dockers.
Almanac Poetry: Sunday Night Country Devotions
July 22, 2025 by 7 Comments
In this Campbell Bairstow poem, he remembers the joy and the suffering of watching VFL footy replays on the family farm in Western Australia. His faith survived.
Almanac Poetry – Fox
July 21, 2025 by 2 Comments
No lazy dogs here…KD describes this Monday’s poem as ‘a fable about a fox’. [Contains mild coarse language – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: In Response to W.B. Yeats
July 14, 2025 by 4 Comments
Returning to his regular Monday poetry spot after a brief break due to family bereavement, KD puts forward a poem that plays humorously off the well-known poem by W.B. Yeats, ‘Among School Children’, which questions the difference between the dancer and the dance. [Glad to see you back on the tools – Ed.]
Dramatic Asthmatic
July 14, 2025 by 10 Comments
A poem about allergies from Damian Balassone. [With winter here we reprise Damian’s poem from last year -Ed]
Round 17 – Haiku Bob: one by one
July 10, 2025 by 1 Comment
Haiku Bob celebrates Collingwood, a team on fire despite the wintry weather, and their Round 17 win against Carlton.
Almanac Music: ‘To Her Door’ – Songs Involving Doors
July 4, 2025 by 123 Comments
This week’s installment in KD’s epic series on popular music themes concerns songs involving doors. As usual, readers song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Shakespeare Takes a Turn
June 27, 2025 by 3 Comments
‘To be or not to be’ – ‘is a shank still a shank?’ With club in hand, golf has become somewhat Shakespearian for Pards.
Round 15 – Haiku Bob: for the hell of it
June 24, 2025 by 4 Comments
Haiku Bob reflects Collingwood’s fortunes against St Kilda with his haiku verse ‘for the hell of it’.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Retrospect’ – T J Le Cheminant
June 20, 2025 by 1 Comment
Paul Noonan presents a war poem written by his great-uncle Thomas Le Cheminant reflecting the death of his mate during WW1.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Family Ties (For Bernadette, Bella and Bridie, 25 December 2024)’ – Paul Noonan
June 17, 2025 by 1 Comment
Paul Noonan pays tribute to his family with his affectionate poem reflecting the importance of ‘Family Ties’.
Almanac (Swimming) Poetry: Old blokes in black budgie smugglers
June 17, 2025 by 9 Comments
Campbell Bairstow explores the mind, body and soul of swimming laps in a poem he recited to great acclaim at the Poets’ Lunch last Friday. This poem was first published on the Footy Almanac site in 2021.
Almanac Poetry: Poets’ Lunch Reviewed
June 17, 2025 by 5 Comments
Poems about first love, lost mothers, aviator glasses, footy haiku, and much, much more, were all part of a very successful first Footy Almanac Poets’ Lunch last Friday.
Almanac Poetry: Poets’ Lunch – Meet our poets
June 10, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Meet the poets featured in the upcoming Footy Almanac Poets’ Lunch on Friday 13 June at the All Nations Hotel in Richmond.
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