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Almanac Poetry: In the Manner of C. P. E. Bach

Kevin Densley’s poem today is about getting Bach to basics; Johann Sebastian Bach had twenty children from two wives. A number of his sons also became famous musicians, of those this mentions three.

Almanac Poetry: Beautiful Submerged Things

Women, painting, literature, theatre and drowning make for a heady waterlogged mix in this week’s poem by Kevin Densley.

Almanac Poetry: Love Me Tonight

For this week’s poem, Kevin Densley has delved into his archives and found one in which, to use his own words, he ‘channels someone like Sir Les Patterson’. [Contains mature themes]

Almanac Poetry: Not Really ‘In Memoriam’

This week’s poem by Kevin Densley concerns the ‘In Memoriam’ genre. He has delved into his archives to find a poem that suggests the question: do we always need to praise the dead? Is sincerity more important than an imitation of flattery?

Almanac Poetry: Fiona, Me, and the Moon

Jerry Seinfeld may have said the following about this week’s poem from Kevin Densley: ‘Hey, what’s the deal with the moon? What’s it doing up there?’

Almanac Memoir: Uncle Colin

Kevin Densley has written a short memoir about his Uncle Colin, a tough man who grew up in ‘God’s Country’.

Almanac Poetry: The ‘Vision’ Thing

This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is a political one, dealing primarily with the Richmond debate of the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election, in which George Bush Senior went toe-to-toe with Bill Clinton…KD can see some humour in the situation, as most political performances allow

Almanac Poetry: Fighting Planes of World War Two

Ever tried to build a plastic model plane when you were a kid? Kevin Densley did, and this poem talks about the results. [Quite relatable – Ed]

Almanac Poetry: Happy Families

This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is about families. Of course, they’re by no means perfect!

Almanac Poetry: The Youthful, Secret, Utterly Fanciful Desire to Have Sex with the Long Dead Female Subject of a Literary Biography

Kevin Densley shares a poem on youthful fantasy…what might have been, but for reality.

Almanac Poetry: Rewriting, Reliving

This week’s poem from Kevin Densley addresses the issue of our past: can we ever relive it, to try to make what happened then better?

Almanac (Prose) Poetry: House by the Sea

This week’s poetic proffering from Kevin Densley is a rich, evocative and enigmatic prose poem.

Almanac (Pub) Life: My Humpty Doo Hotel

Grace Mackenzie is the inaugural Kevin Densley Scholar. She loves being in pubs, and working in pubs. This year she’ll tell the story of a few she loves. A Territory girl, now living in Melbourne, she starts her series with the famous Humpty Doo Hotel just outside of Darwin.

Almanac Poetry: My Raven

This week’s poem from Kevin Densley, ‘draws upon one symbolic meaning of the raven – survival. This meaning can be gleaned from the Old Testament Book of Genesis.’ The raven is the initial bird Noah released from the ark to look for land after the cataclysmic flooding rains ceased.

Almanac Music: Songs About Dancing

Continuing his extensive series of theme-related music pieces, this week Kevin Densley explores ‘Songs About Dancing.’ As usual, readers are warmly encouraged to add their own choices and comments.

Almanac Poetry: The Fish of Geelong

The mind of a twelve-year-old can contain a wealth of information about the natural world, particularly of their surrounding environment. This new piscine preoccupied poem from Kevin Densley contains childhood memories of fish from his home town, Geelong – and it’s certainly a very long list!

Almanac Poetry: Elvis Presley’s Late Cheeseburger Period

In recognition of today’s place in pop history (June 26th, 1977 was the date of Elvis Presley’s last concert in Indiana), Kevin Densley reprises his poem about the death of the King who embodied so much of the American Dream.

Almanac Poetry: Quietly Neurotic Domestic Interior

This week’s poem by Kevin Densley was influenced by ‘the work of Kafka and Munch, among others, and the general issue of alienation’.
‘Happy reading’, KD adds, tongue-in-cheek.

Almanac Poetry: A Notable Colonial Fistfight

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: Beata Beatrix (Blessed Beatrice)

Kevin Densley based this poem upon the nineteenth century painting, Beata Beatrix by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in part a memorial to the artists’s wife.