KD describes this week’s poem as ‘the imagined final thoughts of an infamous Nazi who died in Brazil, unrepentant, decades after World War Two ended.’
Dying Thoughts of Dr Josef Mengele, while Having a Stroke and Drowning off the Coast of Bertioga, São Paulo, Brazil, 7 February, 1979
February 24, 2025 by 4 Comments
Almanac Music: ‘I was alright, for a while’ – Songs Involving Crying
February 7, 2025 by 255 Comments
In this week’s instalment of KD’s epic series on popular song, the theme is songs involving crying. As usual, readers’ responses are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Another Song for Severed Head
February 3, 2025 by 4 Comments
Kevin Densley describes this week’s (previously unpublished) poem as one ‘about the nature of creative ideas and creativity more generally’.
Almanac Poetry: brief discourse on Mozart and Shakespeare in the manner of e e cummings
January 30, 2025 by 2 Comments
In this previously unpublished poem, Kevin Densley channels E. E. Cummings to share some thoughts about Mozart and Shakespeare.
Almanac Music: ‘If the chemistry is right’ – Songs Involving Science
January 24, 2025 by 65 Comments
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 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According to Kevin Densley, this week’s (previously unpublished) poem ‘riffs off some lines in Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Lorelei’, based upon a Rhine River siren of German mythology’.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 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This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is, he says, ‘a previously unpublished, left-field one from the archives’.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: 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.]
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: 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.]
Almanac Poetry: Venticelli
December 9, 2024 by 2 Comments
This zephyr of a poem from Kevin Densley concerns the ephemeral venticelli, Italian for ‘little winds’.
Almanac Music: ‘If I Was A Sculptor’ – Songs Connected to Painting and/or Sculpture
December 6, 2024 by 79 Comments
This instalment of KD’s epic series on popular song concerns songs connected to painting and/or sculpture. As usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Italicised Poem
December 2, 2024 by 4 Comments
In today’s poem, Kevin Densley looks humorously at italics.
Almanac Poetry: Ode to Cigarettes Past
November 25, 2024 by 25 Comments
Following on from his latest music themed post, we reshare Kevin Densley’s look back on the “golden age” of cigarettes. A one-two punch of pungency if you will.
Almanac Music: ‘Have a Cigar’ – Songs Involving Smoking
November 22, 2024 by 88 Comments
In the latest instalment of his epic series on popular song themes, KD deals with songs involving smoking – cigarettes, cigars, pipes, whatever…
Almanac Poetry: Dat Ole Debble Called Redrafting
November 18, 2024 by 2 Comments
Every writer does it; some should do it more; others should do it less – in this Monday’s poem, KD deals with the subject of redrafting.
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