Round 21 – Haiku Bob – all the clocks

Clocks, petals, a door. Haiku Bob tries to make sense of another Collingwood loss.

Collingwood’s 2014 bicycle

In the face of a flogging, E. Regnans resorts to high-end doggerel (with apologies to Banjo and Mulga Bill).

Round 20 – Haiku Bob – cusp of spring

Haiku Bob gazes upon a Super Moon, and a Magpie loss.

Round 19 – Haiku Bob – in two minds

Haiku Bob finds some late winter sun as his Magpies eke out a hard fought win.

Round 18 – Haiku Bob – thin ice

Dead branches, ice, clouds – Haiku Bob knows a slump when he sees one.

Round 17 – Haiku Bob – players faintly

Haiku Bob finally brings himself to write about the Magpies’ decline and Maxwell’s departure.

Round 16 – Haiku Bob – tripping on waves

News has arrived in Lapland of Collingwood’s loss and the Little Master’s season demise. Haiku Bob reports from the Land of the Midnight Suns.

Poetry: Ride Them Like Jockeys

Old Dog detects from the collective response in the airport lounge that the people have a better sense of the spirit of the game than those who run it.

Round 15 – Haiku Bob – where the moon is

It’s all about the moon, the cold and beating the Blues in Haiku Bob’s take on the Collingwood v Carlton game

AFL Round 15 – Sydney Swans v GWS Giants: Winter Hits

Steve Duffy journeys to the SCG to see his Giants shape up to the Swans monoliths. Blank verse in honour of Heath Shaw’s memories of the game.

AFL Round 14 – Haiku Bob – Darkness Spills

Haiku Bob laments what might have been as darkness spills over his Magpies.

Round 13 -Collingwood v Western Bulldogs: Haiku Bob – fade to nothing

Sometimes even Pendlebury is not enough. Haiku Bob’s take on Collingwood’s shock loss to the Bulldogs.

AFL Round 12 – Haiku Bob – all the flow

On behalf of Floreat Pica, Haiku Bob reflects on the Queen’s Birthday clash.

Looking for a win

Facing crisis, Edvard Munch chose oils and gave us The Scream. When Dante explored the ramifications of the Inferno, he turned to poetry. Both used art in times of crisis. Here Gigs follows Dante’s path for his Dogs.

AFL Round 11 – Haiku Bob – starting a fire

Haiku Bob celebrates the end of autumn and his Magpies artistry on Friday night.

AFL Round 10 – Haiku Bob – last quarter moon

Haiku Bob’s ethereal view of Collingwood v West Coast

AFL Round 9 – Haiku Bob – the yellow leaf

Haiku Bob distills the essence of Collingwood’s experience against Adelaide

Poetry: Those empty seats

The Pies may not be winning this weekend, but Stephen Whiteside’s poetry reckons pies at the footy are always a winner.

Poetry: A Difficult Birth

Simon Wilcox has something he’d like to say bout the ’19th Man’

‘Erb (by C. J. Dennis)

Stephen Whiteside shares a classic C.J. Dennis poem. ‘Erb would have made a great Almanacker.