Every odyssey has a beginning and an end…but like the filling of a sandwich, arguably most important is what lies between. Kevin Densley taps into Homeric tales for today’s poem, but of course the experiences of major journeys and the doubts involved do not start and end with Homer; they are universal and timeless.
Almanac Poetry: After Baudelaire
July 18, 2022 by 2 Comments
A substantial pour of Baudelaire, accompanied by a dash of Poe, stirred thoroughly…scan the mixture through a glass darkly, then savour the result – a heady, hallucinatory poetic cocktail by Kevin Densley.
Almanac Poetry: Spleen
July 11, 2022 by 6 Comments
Feel like getting something off your chest? Out of your system? Reading today’s poem by Kevin Densley may help!
Almanac Music: Song of the Seasons (Song Lyric)
July 8, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Partly inspired by Almanackers’ responses to his group of posts concerning Oz songs connected to particular seasons, KD puts forward a song lyric he wrote as an eighteen-year-old that encompasses all four of them.
Almanac Poetry: Another for Mr Malley
July 4, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Australia’s greatest literary hoax was the creation of the non-existent poet, Ern Malley, in the 1940s. This week, Kevin Densley presents a Malley-esque poem dedicated to the fictitious Ern.
Almanac Music: The Doctor Will See You Now – Five Oz Rock Classics by The Angels
July 1, 2022 by 12 Comments
KD salutes iconic Australian band The Angels, originally headed by dynamic frontman, Bernard ‘Doc’ Neeson.
Almanac Poetry: Measures Taken
June 27, 2022 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is about hard times, and actions one takes when experiencing them, like ‘kicking a newspaper football, tied into shape with string.’ [Who has played kick-to-kick with a football made of folded-up newspapers? – KD]
Almanac Literary: Proximity
June 24, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Very short story? Prose poem? This Friday’s piece from KD involves his maternal grandmother’s unusual connection to Africa.
Almanac Poetry: Archetypal Dream
June 13, 2022 by 2 Comments
This Monday’s poem by Kevin Densley is about dream analysis, and also makes reference to a big hit by Chubby Checker!
Almanac Music: Australian Songs of Autumn
June 12, 2022 by 14 Comments
Now that it’s autumn, KD offers his piece concerning Australian songs of autumn, to complete a ‘Footy Almanac Four Seasons’, as he has previously posted pieces concerning Australian songs of summer, winter and spring on the Almanac website. Again, he invites Almanackers to contribute their own song choices.
Almanac Prose Poetry: People and Places
June 10, 2022 by 4 Comments
This Friday, KD presents two prose poems concerning people and places – the first piece was inspired by his paternal grandmother, Iris, as well as his love of old pubs, while the second is a more introspective affair evoking loneliness and the passing of time.
Almanac Poetry: Three (More) Little Worlds
June 6, 2022 by Leave a Comment
As with last week, every poem worthy of the name – no matter the length – should evoke a world; clearly Kevin Densley has a veritable galaxy of word worlds brimming within.
Almanac Poetry: Three Little Worlds
May 30, 2022 by 2 Comments
With this Monday effort, Kevin Densley states that every poem worthy of the name (no matter how long or short) should in some sense evoke its own world. He offers three tiny ecosystems for your consideration.
Almanac Music (and Poetry): ‘Lacrimosa’ from Mozart’s Requiem
May 20, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Prose and poetry combine in this piece by KD about working as a cinema usher in Melbourne in the mid-1980s – the focus is upon one of his all-time favourite films and pieces of music.
Almanac Poetry: Bushranger Jimmy Governor
May 16, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Today’s poem from Kevin Densley focuses upon Jimmy Governor, whose execution in 1901 was one of the key markers of the end of Australia’s bushranging era. [Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following contains images of person who has died.]
Almanac Poetry: From Sheffield, England
May 9, 2022 by 4 Comments
Cutlery drawers can be interesting places – some contain family history going back generations, as this week’s poem from Kevin Densley demonstrates.
Almanac Music: Flaming June (Song Lyric)
May 5, 2022 by 2 Comments
Once in a blue moon, Kevin Densley offers one of his song lyrics for Footy Almanac readers to ponder. This one, ‘Flaming June’, was written in about 1990, and strongly influenced by one of his favourite paintings of the time.
Almanac Poetry: The Bluestone Step of the Sherritt Hut
May 2, 2022 by 4 Comments
Kevin Densley considers this ‘perhaps the most chilling episode in Australian bushranging history’ – step into his reflective poetry on the execution-style killing of Aaron Sherritt by the Kelly Gang’s Joe Byrne.
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