Jen Muirden asks that her fellow Saints give Jake a go.
Almanac Poetry: Brothers
October 21, 2015 by 1 Comment
Bluestone with a delightfully simple poem about brothers.
Ode to raconteur and wordsmith extraordinaire, Gideon Haigh
October 19, 2015 by 7 Comments
Jennifer Muirden with an ode to Gideon Haigh, after listening to him speak at his Certain Admissions dinner last Wednesday evening.
Almanac Poetry: Time, the toughest opponent of all
October 16, 2015 by 2 Comments
Time and football. Verse from the pen of Jeff Dowsing.
Parades and Brightly Coloured Men – The 2015 AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai
October 11, 2015 by 2 Comments
Haiku Bob convened the fourth annual Grand Final haiku kukai which brought contributions from around the world. Here are some of the 200 poems that were written.
Almanac poetry: Season’s over
October 10, 2015 by 2 Comments
The changing of the seasons moves Vin Maskell to verse.
Haiku Bob – Round 23 – gone too soon
September 11, 2015 by 2 Comments
Haiku Bob on the Pies loss in the Final round of 2015.
Haiku Bob – Round 22: edge of night
September 3, 2015 by 2 Comments
The Pies come to play on a Friday night on the eve of Spring.
Haiku Bob – Round 21 – disembodied
August 27, 2015 by 1 Comment
Muddy paths and cold, empty seats. The Magpies’ season ending loss to Richmond leaves Haiku Bob despondent.
Haiku Bob – Round 20 – mothballs
August 20, 2015 by 2 Comments
Has there been a more frustrating season for Magpie fans than 2015? Haiku Bob contemplates another ‘honourable loss’ that effectively ends the Pies’ hopes of a place in September
Haiku Bob – Round 18 – laid up on the wing
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Taking his lead this week from E regnans’ Floreat Pica Society review of Melbourne v Collingwood, and dreaming The Drones’ magnificent track, Shark Fin Blues, Haiku Bob brings you your weekly footy Haiku fix.
Haiku Bob – Round 17: the last break
July 29, 2015 by 2 Comments
It’s still summer holidays in Sweden and Haiku Bob has been whiling away the days in the Stockholm archipelago which, along with the 5.10 am kick-off (!), has crept its way into some of this week’s haiku….
Haiku Bob – Round 15 – Steady Drip
July 16, 2015 by 1 Comment
Three straight defeats and nobody up forward “except bloody Jesse White”… the rains are falling on Haiku Bob’s Magpies.
Almanac Poetry – Red and White
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Jan Courtin shares a poem for the Swans she wrote in 1957
Haiku Bob – Round 14 – just another day
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Haiku Bob’s meditation on Phil Walsh and Collingwood’s mighty effort against Hawthorn. Two events not mutually exclusive.
Jarrad Waite and the Hand of God
July 4, 2015 by 3 Comments
An ode to Jarrod Waite with his 200th game approaching against the Blues
Round 13 – Haiku Bob: through the lines
July 2, 2015 by 2 Comments
Haiku Bob’s response to a tight contest in Perth.
Haiku Bob – Round 11 – fifty the sky
June 18, 2015 by 2 Comments
The moments when silence says it all: Haiku Bob on the lengthening winter shadows that oversee a Collingwood victory.
Round 10 – Haiku Bob: the joyful sounds
June 10, 2015 by 1 Comment
Haiku Bob and the joyful sounds at the G
Almanac Poetry – Cricket doggerel: Hill; Midwinter
June 8, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Crankypete with some cricket poetry.
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