In this week’s instalment of KD’s epic series on popular song, the theme is science. As usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Music: ‘If the chemistry is right’ – Songs Involving Science
January 24, 2025 by 65 Comments
Outer Suburban Boy
January 21, 2025 by 6 Comments
‘Outer Suburban Boy’ by Damian Balassone reflects the cultural understandings of the suburbs.
Almanac Poetry: Definition
January 20, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Densley describes this week’s poem as ‘an acidly humorous take on rivalry in the literary world’.
Almanac Poetry: Variations on Some Lines from Sylvia Plath’s ‘Lorelei’
January 13, 2025 by 2 Comments
According to Kevin Densley, this week’s (previously unpublished) poem ‘riffs off some lines in Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Lorelei’, based upon a Rhine River siren of German mythology’.
Almanac Life: Old Dog, the kid, a footy, the roof!
January 10, 2025 by 2 Comments
A small piece from Old Dog about kicking the footy with the kid when the obvious happens.
The Feats of Pete
January 7, 2025 by 5 Comments
A favourite footballer is dedicated into verse by Damian Balassone.
Almanac Poetry: a world-weary ten-year-old speaks
January 6, 2025 by 4 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is, he says, ‘a previously unpublished, left-field one from the archives’. [NB: Contains mild coarse language]
Almanac Music: ‘January’ – Songs Mentioning Months of the Year
January 3, 2025 by 106 Comments
In keeping with the beginning of a new year, this week’s instalment of KD’s epic series on popular song themes concerns songs mentioning names of the months.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Who Shat in the Kids Pool?’ – Tommy Mallet
December 31, 2024 by 3 Comments
A philosophical Tommy Mallet faces a problem often confronted in a kids swimming pool. [CAUTION: Language warning – Ed]
Almanac Poetry: E(a)rnest
December 30, 2024 by 4 Comments
Some iconic writers, like Ernest Hemingway, have been imitated so often that their output can no longer be read as the fresh, new, innovative literary work it originally was – this is the issue tackled by Kevin Densley’s latest (and previously unpublished) Almanac poem. [Or: The importance of being the old man and the sea – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: ‘In With Me’ – Tommy Mallet
December 27, 2024 by 2 Comments
A poem by Tommy Mallet about working in the bush with a couple of back-packers. [Language warning – Ed]
On William Hogarth’s The Graham Children (1742)
December 23, 2024 by 2 Comments
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley concerns a group portrait of children by English painter William Hogarth. KD states: ‘This ekphrastic poem mainly deals with happiness and melancholy, the inevitable passing of time, and children and pets. ‘
Almanac Music: ‘I Can See You, Your Brown Skin Shining in the Sun’: Songs Connected to the Beach
December 20, 2024 by 69 Comments
This week’s theme in KD’s epic series about popular song is songs connected to the beach – and they don’t have to be specifically ‘summer songs’, either. As usual, readers’ input is most welcome.
Almanac Poetry Reviews: High praise for Kevin Densley
December 19, 2024 by 6 Comments
Footy Almanac mainstay, Kevin Densley, who picks up stacks of Brownlow votes each season, has received a super review for his poetry collection ‘Please Feed the Macaws…I’m Feeling too Indolent’.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Tiger’ – Tommy Mallet
December 17, 2024 by 2 Comments
In the bush, confrontations with snakes are part of life, a life and death existence a metaphor for life itself as ‘Tiger’ Tommy Mallet’s latest poem suggests.
Almanac Poetry: Goya’s El Pelele (The Straw Manikin)
December 16, 2024 by 2 Comments
Previously unpublished, Kevin Densley’s poem gives voice to the figure of the airborne straw man in Goya’s well-known painting. [Gives new meaning to straw manning, Ed.]
Revisiting The Footy Almanac Grand Final Eve Lunch: Bruce Dawe’s September greeting
December 12, 2024 by Leave a Comment
The poetry vibe was strong at The Footy Almanac Grand Final Eve Lunch where John Harms read this greeting from Bruce Dawe.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Red’ – Tommy Mallet
December 11, 2024 by Leave a Comment
A poem about a red wobble dashboard robot is the latest offering from Tommy Mallet.
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