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Almanac Poetry: The Valley of the Shadow of

Kevin Densley takes a walk through the valley in this vivid poetic portrait of Racecourse Road in Flemington.

Almanac Poetry: Bread and Circuses

Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman poet Juvenal came up with the maxim about the general populace being only interested in ‘bread and circuses’. His famous words were the inspiration for this week’s poem by Kevin Densley.

Almanac Poetry: Lunch with Terrie and Bernadette

This poem from Kevin Densley speaks of his time as a young playwright and performing arts student, and the ‘end’ of raffish, arty-farty Carlton in the early 1980s.

Almanac Poetry: Dredge Pond, Harrietville, Victoria

Kevin Densley depicts the Tronoh Dredge Hole in Harrietville, Victoria, created by gold mining operations. He remembers it well from family holidays.

Almanac Poetry: Ben Hall’s Photograph

This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is based upon (arguably) the most iconic photograph in the history of Australian bushranging.

Almanac Poetry: Imponderables

In this Monday’s poem, Kevin Densley asks the big questions of life … well, not really ‘that’ big.

Almanac Poetry: Seen from a Window Table in Acland Street, St Kilda

This week’s poem from Kevin Densley dates from the time, about twenty years ago, when he lived in Melbourne. St Kilda was a short tram ride from home…

Almanac Poetry: Photograph of Bushranger and (Alleged) Multiple Murderer Tommy Clarke, of the Notorious Braidwood Clarkes, Aboard the Stolen Racehorse Boomerang, circa 1865

In this week’s poem from Kevin Densley, it’s ‘back to bushranging’ – he profiles Tommy Clarke, of the notorious mid-nineteenth century Clarkes from the Braidwood area of New South Wales.

Almanac Poetry: Pisanello’s ‘The Virgin and Child with the Saints George and Anthony Abbot’

According to Kevin Densley: ‘In this poem, I put my own spin upon a fifteenth century painting by Italian artist Pisanello, an unusual work featuring an Egyptian hermit, a saint with a legendary association with a dragon, and the Virgin and Child.’

Almanac Poetry: George Stubbs’ ‘A Lion Attacking a Horse’

Kevin Densley’s poem is based on a famous eighteenth century painting by arguably the greatest horse painter of all-time, George Stubbs. The great poet William Blake also receives mention.

Almanac Poetry: Three Photographs from the Early Life of Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith (1922-1986)

This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is based upon three photographs from the life of the only child of the most famous literary couple of the twentieth century, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

Almanac Poetry: Grandfatherly Metaphysics

This week’s poem from Kevin Densley involves his maternal grandfather’s backyard shed. “Its walls were lined with empty bottles,” according to KD.

“The full ones didn’t last very long.”

Almanac Poetry: Morning Sun, Fitzroy

According to Kevin Densley it is clear that beauty can be found in the most unlikely places; this time the very streetsides of inner-Melbourne.

Almanac Poetry: A Little Night Music

This Monday’s poem from Kevin Densley was inspired by a well-known Mozart composition and night-time in general.

Almanac Poetry: Death of a Bantam

Today, Kevin Densley’s poem is on love, death and a nobly-lived life.

Almanac Poetry: Murray Cod

In this week’s poem, Kevin Densley looks at Australia’s most iconic indigenous fish, and one of the largest freshwater varieties in the world – the Murray Cod.

Almanac History and Poetry: Two Remembrance Day Offerings

To commemorate a Remembrance Day theme, we revisit a couple of earlier contributions from Kevin Densley about Capt. Bert James and Capt. Albert Jacka VC.

Almanac Poetry: Kitchen

The kitchen is far from a bastion of domestic bliss, moreso a den of violence in this week’s poem from Kevin Densley.

Almanac Poetry: Jack-o’-lantern

This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is a new piece about that classic symbol of Halloween, the Jack-o’-lantern.

Almanac Poetry: Death of Presley

Is Kevin Densley’s poem more than simply toilet humour? Could it be a royal flush?