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Almanac Poetry: Every Odyssey

Every odyssey has a beginning and an end…but like the filling of a sandwich, arguably most important is what lies between. Kevin Densley taps into Homeric tales for today’s poem, but of course the experiences of major journeys and the doubts involved do not start and end with Homer; they are universal and timeless.

Almanac Poetry: After Baudelaire

A substantial pour of Baudelaire, accompanied by a dash of Poe, stirred thoroughly…scan the mixture through a glass darkly, then savour the result – a heady, hallucinatory poetic cocktail by Kevin Densley.

Almanac Poetry: Spleen

Feel like getting something off your chest? Out of your system? Reading today’s poem by Kevin Densley may help!

Almanac Poetry: Another for Mr Malley

Australia’s greatest literary hoax was the creation of the non-existent poet, Ern Malley, in the 1940s. This week, Kevin Densley presents a Malley-esque poem dedicated to the fictitious Ern.

Almanac Poetry: Measures Taken

This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is about hard times, and actions one takes when experiencing them, like ‘kicking a newspaper football, tied into shape with string.’ [Who has played kick-to-kick with a football made of folded-up newspapers? – KD]

Almanac Poetry: Archetypal Dream

This Monday’s poem by Kevin Densley is about dream analysis, and also makes reference to a big hit by Chubby Checker!

Almanac Poetry: Three (More) Little Worlds

As with last week, every poem worthy of the name – no matter the length – should evoke a world; clearly Kevin Densley has a veritable galaxy of word worlds brimming within.

Almanac Poetry: Three Little Worlds

With this Monday effort, Kevin Densley states that every poem worthy of the name (no matter how long or short) should in some sense evoke its own world. He offers three tiny ecosystems for your consideration.

Almanac Life: Ten Personal Favourites

Kevin Densley has hit us with his best shots today; a list of ‘personal favourites’, which might not necessarily equate with the ‘greatest of all-time’, but in many instances are more important, as they tell you something about yourself.

Almanac Poetry: Bushranger Jimmy Governor

Today’s poem from Kevin Densley focuses upon Jimmy Governor, whose execution in 1901 was one of the key markers of the end of Australia’s bushranging era. [Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following contains images of person who has died.]

Almanac Poetry: From Sheffield, England

Cutlery drawers can be interesting places – some contain family history going back generations, as this week’s poem from Kevin Densley demonstrates.

Almanac Music: Flaming June (Song Lyric)

Once in a blue moon, Kevin Densley offers one of his song lyrics for Footy Almanac readers to ponder. This one, ‘Flaming June’, was written in about 1990, and strongly influenced by one of his favourite paintings of the time.

Almanac Poetry: The Bluestone Step of the Sherritt Hut

Kevin Densley considers this ‘perhaps the most chilling episode in Australian bushranging history’ – step into his reflective poetry on the execution-style killing of Aaron Sherritt by the Kelly Gang’s Joe Byrne.

Almanac Poetry: Joseph of Arimathea

In keeping with Easter, this week’s poem from Kevin Densley is his take on Joseph of Arimathea, who, according to all four canonical gospels, was the man who took responsibility for Christ’s burial after his crucifixion.

Almanac Poetry: Chad Morgan, the Sheik of Scrubby Creek

In this week’s poem, Kevin Densley deals with Australian country music legend Chad Morgan (Kevin stresses that the particular incidents mentioned in connection with the great man are ‘fictional’)

Almanac Memoir: Ouyen Harness Races, 1973

They’re racing at Ouyen today (Sunday) so we are reprising Kevin Densley’s memoir of the trots:

The smell of burning mallee roots is a fond memory for Kevin Densley of the Ouyen Harness Races many years ago.

Almanac Music: Absolute Game Changers – A Song That Shook Your World

According to Kevin Densley, we all have a song that is an ‘absolute game changer’ for us, a particular one that shakes up our world and changes it in some fundamental way. He puts forward his own choice, and asks Almanackers to do the same.

Almanac Poetry: To Clarissa

In Kevin Densley’s poem today, it’s as clear as the crystal waters of a low tide rock pool: ‘Nudity is a wonderful, natural thing – especially if that nudity belongs to someone else!’

Almanac Music: Extraordinary Musical Moments – Patti Smith Sings ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ at Bob Dylan’s Official Nobel Prize Ceremony, 2016

In this instalment of his ‘Extraordinary Musical Moments’ series, Kevin Densley discusses Patti Smith singing ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ at Bob Dylan’s official Nobel Prize ceremony in 2016. KD describes the occasion as both ‘wonderful’ and ‘notably imperfect’.

Almanac Poetry: For Shantelle

All Kevin Densley has to say about this week’s poem is that “any resemblance to any persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental…” (Contains mild strong language)