In this installment of his long-running series on popular song themes, Kevin Densley focuses upon songs involving medicine. The theme is seen in a broad way and could include songs mentioning doctors, nurses, names of particular medicines and the like. As usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Observing the Artist Observing
September 29, 2025 by 2 Comments
‘There is such a thing as too much,’ Kevin Densley says, in relation to this week’s poem. [Contains mild coarse language – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: The School of Brendan Behan
September 22, 2025 by 2 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley connects with hard-drinking Irish writer, Brendan Behan (1923-1964).
Almanac Poetry: Larkin’s Last Words
September 15, 2025 by 4 Comments
In this week’s poem, Kevin Densley looks at the alleged last words of one of his favourite poets, Philip Larkin (1922-1985).
Almanac Music: ‘Turn our faces to the West’ – Songs Around the Compass
September 12, 2025 by 116 Comments
The latest installment in KD’s long-running series on popular music themes involves songs connected to compass directions – north, south, east, west and all their variations. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: The Life and Death of Ben Hall
September 8, 2025 by 1 Comment
Over the years, KD has written and published a number of short poems about bushranger Ben Hall. Here, for the first time, is a longer, more complete take on Hall’s life, drawing from those earlier poems but also containing a considerable amount of new material.
Almanac Poetry: Postmodernism
September 1, 2025 by 9 Comments
In this week’s poem, KD offers a perspective on postmodernism, or PoMo in the parlance of SoHo mofos with FOMO.
Almanac Poetry: Matins
August 25, 2025 by 2 Comments
Kevin Densley describes this week’s poem as about a ‘morning scene in my earlier life comparable to a church service’.
Almanac Music: ‘Sitting in an English garden’ – Songs That Refer to Countries
August 22, 2025 by 165 Comments
In this installment of KD’s long-running series on popular music, the theme is songs that refer directly to countries. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Mitchell Library, Sydney, 1997
August 18, 2025 by 2 Comments
This week’s poem is a previously unpublished one from KD’s archives, dating from his last visit to Sydney in 1997, when he was in his thirties. [It is quite the location – Ed.]
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.
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.]
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: 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.
Almanac Poetry: Limeburners Point, Geelong
June 9, 2025 by 8 Comments
The chilly month of June lends itself to observing the poetry of the Southern Ocean, though in this reprised effort from Kevin Densley, sometimes the realm of dancing whitecaps and whipping wind leaves you wanting more…
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