In this week’s installment of his long-running series on popular song, KD looks at songs involving watercraft – ships, boats, yachts and the like. As usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Music: ‘Everybody’s building ships and boats’ – Songs Involving Watercraft
July 26, 2024 by 217 Comments
Almanac Poetry: To Leanne, My Long-Lost Friend, Nude in Last Night’s Dream
July 22, 2024 by 4 Comments
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley deals with dreams, utopia, transience and loss.
Almanac Music: ‘Once I had a love…’ – Songs Referencing Glass
July 12, 2024 by 108 Comments
In the latest installment of his long-running series on popular song themes, KD looks at songs referencing glass; as usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Boot Hill
July 8, 2024 by 2 Comments
In this previously unpublished poem, KD looks with affection at the reading habits of his Densley grandfather. [Nicely putting the meta into metaphor – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: Oedipus and the Theban Sphinx
July 1, 2024 by 2 Comments
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley offers his perspective on the ancient Greek story of Oedipus’s encounter with the Sphinx who blocked the entrance to the city of Thebes.
Almanac Music: ‘My Baby’s Got Me Locked Up in Chains’ – Songs Containing Prison References
June 28, 2024 by 152 Comments
In this week’s installment of his long-running series concerning popular song themes, KD looks at songs that contain prison references.
Almanac Poetry: Chaconne in F for Recorders, Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord
June 24, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Densley describes this week’s poem as ‘a souffle-light piece about the writing of poetry and English baroque composer Henry Purcell, with a touch of humour’. [Succintly conveyed – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: To Dionysus
June 10, 2024 by Leave a Comment
According to Wikipedia, in ancient Greek myth and religion, Dionysus is ‘God of wine, vegetation, fertility, festivity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre’. Quite a collection of responsibilities! KD’s poem deals humorously with this well-known god of excess.
Almanac Music: ‘Let There Be Rock’ – Songs That Reference Rock and Roll
May 31, 2024 by 158 Comments
In this installment of KD’s long-running series about popular song, the theme is songs that reference rock and roll. As usual, readers’ responses are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Shapeshifter
May 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley concerns shapeshifting – an ability, often represented in the arts, to transform oneself into something else.
Almanac Poetry: Freud’s Famous Case Histories
May 20, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This week, it’s an unpublished poem from KD’s archives, written long ago, based upon his university study of Sigmund (not James!) Freud.
Almanac Music: ‘Here Comes the…’ – Songs Involving the Sun
May 17, 2024 by 145 Comments
In this instalment of his long-running series about popular music themes, KD deals with songs involving the sun. As usual, readers’ responses are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: As Happy as Larry
May 13, 2024 by Leave a Comment
In this poem from KD, a bloke named Larry is a happy man.
Almanac Poetry: This/That
May 6, 2024 by 2 Comments
Kevin Densley describes this week’s contribution as a ‘poem about opposites’.
Almanac Music: ‘My Huckleberry Friend’ – Songs about the Moon
May 3, 2024 by 168 Comments
In the latest instalment of his long-running series on popular music themes, KD look at songs involving the moon. As usual, readers’ responses are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Happy Families
April 29, 2024 by 2 Comments
Tolstoy famously wrote: ‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ In this week’s poem, Kevin Densley weighs in on the issue.
Almanac Poetry: A Very Minor Composer Speaks
April 22, 2024 by 2 Comments
In this poem, the speaker is a third-rate music composer, who in football parlance, according to KD, ‘would be lucky to make it onto the bench in the reserves’. [These aren’t the droids you’re looking for – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: Wedding Party Photograph: the Marriage of Lucy Jane R— to Edward Thomas P—, the town of P—, South Australia, December 20th, 1905
April 15, 2024 by 2 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley focuses upon a family wedding photograph taken in a South Australian country town in 1905.
Almanac Music: ‘Gimme a Head with Hair’ – Songs about Hair
April 12, 2024 by 163 Comments
Yeah yeah! This week, the theme is hair in Kevin Densley’s long-running series focusing upon popular song.
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