Join the Footy Almanac for lunch and a wonderful afternoon featuring poets who publish on our website, as we hear them read some of their poems, and discuss and dissect the role and importance of poetry in the world today. Friday, 13 June at The All Nations Hotel, Richmond.
Almanac Poetry: Morning Sun, Fitzroy
June 2, 2025 by 2 Comments
In this rerun of a previously posted poem, according to KD it is clear that beauty can be found in the most unlikely places; this time the very streetsides of inner-Melbourne. [Prompted by the sunrise and today’s VAFA write up – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: A Notable Colonial Fistfight
May 26, 2025 by 31 Comments
This is a reprise of one of Kevin Densley’s poetry ‘Greatest Hits’, a rollicking take on Ned Kelly’s famous boxing match with ‘Wild’ Wright in 1874 – if you missed it a few years ago, now’s the chance to get in touch with one of Australia’s most impactful folk figures in a different light.
Almanac Poetry: Chad Morgan, the Sheik of Scrubby Creek, Rueful and Reflective after Getting Clobbered from Behind by a Piece of Two-Be-Four while Having a Piss in the Back Paddock of an Outback Pub During an Interval in his Country-and-Western Show
May 19, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is a previously unpublished, jokey one centred upon the late Australian country music legend, Chad Morgan. [Contains mild coarse language]
Almanac Music: ‘Kiss Me’ – Songs Involving Kissing
May 15, 2025 by 177 Comments
The latest instalment in KD’s epic series on popular song themes concerns songs involving kissing. As is always the case, readers’ contributions are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: mors, mortis
May 12, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Densley marshals a veritable cavalcade of famous dead writers and pictures them in typical, bordering mundane, behaviour from life.
Almanac Poetry: Birds
May 5, 2025 by Leave a Comment
In this week’s poem, KD presents a specific and highly individual take on the avian class.
Almanac Music: ‘You can’t hide your lyin’ eyes’ – Songs Involving Lying
April 25, 2025 by 138 Comments
In this week’s instalment of KD’s epic series on popular song, the theme is songs involving lying. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: The Ballad of Alexander Pearce
April 19, 2025 by 7 Comments
Kevin Densley suggests you read his poem this week with “fava beans and a nice bottle of Chianti” for reasons which will become obvious. [We are giving KD’s poem prominence again because of the reference to Alexander Pearce in a recent Ian Wilson piece.]
Almanac Poetry: Three Photographs from the Early Life of Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith (1922-1986)
April 14, 2025 by 2 Comments
‘A prime candidate for ‘The Great American Novel’, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, turned 100 this week. This centenary has been observed in numerous ways around the world. To mark the occasion, KD reprises his poem about Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s only child, daughter Scottie (Frances Scott Fitzgerald).’
Almanac Music: My Favourite Rock Drummers – Clement Burke of Blondie (RIP)
April 8, 2025 by 31 Comments
Today’s profile of Blondie’s Clement Burke is the first in a series by KD on his favourite rock drummers.
[Clem Burke from Blondie has passed away after a battle with cancer. The Footy Almanac reprises Kevin’s post featuring Clem from a few years ago. RIP Clem Burke. -ED]
Almanac Poetry: What Happened at University This Week
April 7, 2025 by 2 Comments
According to KD, this week’s poem ‘is based upon an event which occurred during my time as a uni teacher, and reflects, in part, upon the tedium of work meetings’.
Almanac Music: ‘Sometimes love don’t feel like it should’ – Songs Involving Hurt
April 4, 2025 by 113 Comments
In this instalment of KD’s epic series on popular song, the theme is songs using the word ‘hurt’ or its variations, like ‘hurts’ and ‘hurting’. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Gorillas in the Mist
March 31, 2025 by 2 Comments
This Monday’s poem is based upon ‘an event that took place decades ago’, according to KD. For him, it is as much about one of his favourite rhyming slang terms, as anything else: ‘gorillas in the mist’, or more succinctly, ‘gorillas’.
Almanac Poetry: How to Use a Hammer
March 24, 2025 by 2 Comments
Step 1: Get a hammer. Step 2: Find a nail. Step 3: ??? This week’s poem by Kevin Densley gives us his simple how-to guide for using a hammer. A tool for more than one occasion perhaps?
Almanac Music: ‘Hold your breath and count to ten’ – Songs Involving Falling
March 21, 2025 by 118 Comments
In this latest instalment of KD’s long-running series on popular song, the topic is songs involving falling. As usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: The Poet Who Got the Grant Instead of You
March 17, 2025 by 8 Comments
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley is a humorous take on the role of ego and rivalry in the literary community. [Contains mild coarse language]
Almanac Poetry: Google Earth
March 10, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Google Earth images – in particular, those of Street View – can certainly be striking, according to Kevin Densley’s poem. [Contains mild mature themes]
Almanac Poetry: Glad Day!
March 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Stripped of artifice, Kevin Densley’s previously unpublished poem takes raw inspiration from William Blake’s work.
Almanac Music: ‘Don’t you think the joker laughs at you?’ – Songs involving Laughter
February 28, 2025 by 125 Comments
In this week’s instalment of KD’s long-running series on popular song, the theme is songs involving laughter. As is always the case, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
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