In this Monday’s poem, KD looks at religion, physicality and art.
Almanac Music (Lyrics): Oils Are Definitely Not Oils
April 5, 2024 by 2 Comments
This Friday it’s a music parody from KD – Midnight Oil get the treatment.
Almanac Music; ‘You Go To My Head’ – Songs about Drink
March 29, 2024 by 183 Comments
In this installment of his long running series on popular song themes, KD focuses upon songs involving drinks – both alcoholic and non-alcoholic.
Almanac Poetry: Trapped
March 25, 2024 by 2 Comments
This Monday’s poem from Kevin Densley concerns a situation so many of us have been in – feeling very uncomfortable at a party because a particular person is present.
Almanac Music: ‘Eat the Music’ – Songs Involving Food
March 22, 2024 by 196 Comments
This week, in his ongoing series on popular music themes, KD focuses upon songs involving food. As usual, readers’ contributions are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Please Feed the Macaws … I’m Feeling Too Indolent’ – Book Review
March 22, 2024 by 2 Comments
Well known and respected poet Kevin Densley recently released his latest collection of poetry, ‘Please Feed the Macaws … I’m Feeling Too Indolent’. Col Ritchie presents his review of this wonderful collection of verse.
Almanac Poetry: Good Old Unca
March 18, 2024 by 2 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is an unpublished one from the archives, about an era when it was more likely that a relative down on their luck was staying in your granny flat – and giving every indication that they’d never leave!
Almanac Music: ‘We’d Go Down to the River’ – Songs Concerning Rivers
March 8, 2024 by 146 Comments
In this Friday’s installment of KD’s ongoing series about popular music themes, the topic is songs concerning rivers. As usual, readers are warmly welcomed to put forward their own contributions.
Almanac Memoir: Knowing Hazel
March 4, 2024 by 3 Comments
Instead of a poem, KD shares a short memoir about his late friend, internationally renowned writer and biographer, Dr Hazel Rowley, who died in Manhattan in March 2011. Rowley wrote biographies of authors Christina Stead and Richard Wright, as well as non-fiction works about iconic twentieth century couples Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Almanac Music: ‘Rooms on Fire’: Songs about Houses and Rooms
March 1, 2024 by 227 Comments
In this Friday’s music piece, KD deals with songs about the spaces in which we live – houses, flats, apartments and the rooms within. As usual, readers’ contributions are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: The Arnolfini Divorce
February 26, 2024 by 4 Comments
In this week’s poem, previously unpublished, Kevin Densley takes a famous fifteenth century European painting as the starting point for a twentieth century Australian immigration story.
Almanac Poetry: 6 Canterbury Street
February 19, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem, according to Kevin Densley, is ‘mainly about loneliness’.
Almanac Poetry: Fragments from the Lives of the Bushrangers
February 12, 2024 by 2 Comments
Be they tenacious troubadours or terrors of townsfolk, Kevin Densley has captured fleeting moments of several bushrangers in his latest, as yet unpublished, poem.
Almanac Music: ‘Moooooo!’ – Songs Containing Cowbell
February 9, 2024 by 62 Comments
This week’s themed music piece from KD involves songs containing the cowbell – in some instances, you’ll be surprised! As usual, contributions from readers are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Mirror
February 5, 2024 by 6 Comments
One aspect of this week’s poem from Kevin Densley is the idea that looking at something can turn it into something else.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Death and Co.’ in Suburban Australia
January 29, 2024 by 4 Comments
KD describes this week’s offering – fresh off the presses – as a ‘humorous parody of Sylvia Plath’s strange and disturbing poem ‘Death and Co.’
Almanac Music: Nothin’ But A Hound Dog – Songs Concerning Animals
January 26, 2024 by 253 Comments
‘Songs Concerning Animals’ is the theme of this Friday’s music piece by KD; as usual, readers’ contributions are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Poetry: Encounter with a Fox
January 22, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This Monday’s poem from KD, previously unpublished, concerns a fox that was too friendly for its own good. [Contains mild coarse language – Ed]
Almanac Poetry: To Deirdre of My Sorrows
January 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
‘Throw Irish myth and a painful, long-remembered youthful dalliance together and this might be what comes out,’ – Kevin Densley in relation to this Monday poem.
Almanac Poetry: Wednesday Evening, St Matthew’s Anglican Church, East Geelong
January 8, 2024 by 6 Comments
KD is back after his annual break with a poem about Evensong.
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