This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is based upon (arguably) the most iconic photograph in the history of Australian bushranging.
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Almanac Poetry: Imponderables
January 31, 2022 by 2 Comments
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
January 24, 2022 by 6 Comments
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
January 10, 2022 by 4 Comments
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’
January 3, 2022 by Leave a Comment
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’
December 27, 2021 by 2 Comments
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: Grandfatherly Metaphysics
December 13, 2021 by 2 Comments
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: A Little Night Music
November 29, 2021 by Leave a Comment
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
November 22, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Today, Kevin Densley’s poem is on love, death and a nobly-lived life.
Almanac Poetry: Murray Cod
November 15, 2021 by 2 Comments
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
November 11, 2021 by Leave a Comment
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
November 8, 2021 by Leave a Comment
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
October 31, 2021 by 2 Comments
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
October 25, 2021 by 9 Comments
Is Kevin Densley’s poem more than simply toilet humour? Could it be a royal flush?
Almanac Poetry: The Burial of the Sardine
October 18, 2021 by Leave a Comment
In today’s poem, Kevin Densley winds back the clock to a poem he wrote in his twenties, based upon a stunning painting by Goya.
Almanac Poetry: Vienna Dream
October 11, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Although they lived in the same city – Vienna – in the same era, there is a school of thought that Schubert and Beethoven never actually met. Along these lines, this week’s poem from Kevin Densley speculates upon what a near-miss would have looked like.
Almanac Poetry: The Anni-Frid, Björn, Benny and Agnetha Syndrome
October 4, 2021 by 2 Comments
ABBA’s upcoming release of their first album of new material in 40 years reminded Kevin Densley of a poem he’d written, loosely based on fact, inspired by the band in their then retirement.
Almanac Poetry: The Artist Formerly Known
September 13, 2021 by 2 Comments
The history of rock ‘n’ roll contains many novelty acts and artists with quirky stage names. In this week’s poem, Kevin Densley charts the rise and fall of a fictional rock ‘n’ roller along these lines. [Very mild language warning – Ed.]
Almanac Poetry: Her First and Second Husbands
September 6, 2021 by 2 Comments
This Monday’s poem from Kevin Densley illustrates that, tragically, lightning can strike twice in the same place.
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