Politics can be funny at times, and members of the electorate can express themselves in a variety of ways. Kevin Densley recalls a time when George Bush Senior, on the US Presidential campaign trail, was mooned by an entire family!
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Almanac Poetry: Five Miles from…
August 23, 2021 by 2 Comments
In this Monday’s poem, Kevin Densley looks at the situation of the most iconic dog in Australian folklore.
Almanac Poetry: Irish
August 16, 2021 by 2 Comments
This Monday’s poem from Kevin Densley draws on family history, in particular his Irish ancestors, who, like many of their countryfolk, left their native land to start new lives around the world.
Almanac Music: She Passed By Me At The Fair (Song Lyric)
August 9, 2021 by 6 Comments
Something a little different from Kevin Densley – his most recent song lyric, written only weeks ago. ‘With Irish ancestry on both sides of my family, this lyric for a traditional-sounding Irish folk ballad was bound to come out sooner or later. Imagine these words in a brief, melodic song, wistfully sung.’
Almanac Poetry: Triptych
August 2, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Densley’s poem reworks a classic 19th century French painting into an imagined three-part contemporary picture that critiques today’s consumerist society.
Almanac Poetry: A Change in the Atmosphere
July 26, 2021 by 1 Comment
Kevin Densley describes this week’s poem as “full-on Gothic horror”; eat your heart out, Poe!
Almanac Poetry: Sickle Moon
July 19, 2021 by 4 Comments
This Monday’s poem from Kevin Densley looks in detail at the sickle (or crescent) moon – compared to its gibbous and full cousins, it is found wanting!
Almanac Poetry: Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘The Conjurer’ (c. 1502)
July 12, 2021 by 9 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley concerns Hieronymus Bosch’s famous painting and how foolish people can be.
Almanac Food: KD’s Kitchen – The Anchovy: Èlite Piscine Performer
July 9, 2021 by 1 Comment
Who loves anchovies? Who loathes them? There seems to be no middle ground when it comes to this salty little fish. In this week’s instalment of KD’s Kitchen, Kevin Densley argues strongly on the side of these who are fans.
Almanac Poetry: The Local Mayor Launches a Literary Magazine
July 5, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Some book and magazine launches can be ok; some excruciating. This week’s poem by Kevin Densley depicts an example of the latter. (Any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental. Contains minor strong language.)
Almanac Poetry: Sea Horse
June 28, 2021 by 4 Comments
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is about childhood, beauty and loss.
Almanac Poetry: The Poem of My Enemy Has Not Been Anthologised
June 21, 2021 by 5 Comments
According to Kevin Densley, what was his motivation for this week’s poem? ‘Sometimes a poet just needs to vent!’
Almanac Poetry: Three Bushranger Trials, Berrima, New South Wales, September 1841
June 14, 2021 by 4 Comments
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley concerns crime and punishment in the early colonial days of New South Wales.
Almanac Life: Ten Things I Love
June 4, 2021 by 14 Comments
Responding to Kevin Densley’s things he hates, Jan Courtin has come up with a list of things she loves.
Almanac Poetry: Albert Jacka Earns Australia’s First VC of The Great War
May 18, 2021 by 2 Comments
One hundred and six years ago, almost to the day, legendary Australian soldier, Albert Jacka, performed the remarkable feat which earned him Australia’s first Victoria Cross of The Great War. Kevin Densley’s new poem paints the picture.
Almanac Poetry: In the Good Old Days
May 11, 2021 by Leave a Comment
This Tuesday’s poem from Kevin Densley concerns the typical profile of a serial killer back in ‘the good old days’.
Almanac Poetry: Brother and Sister
April 27, 2021 by 4 Comments
This Tuesday’s poem from Kevin Densley, ‘Brother and Sister’, can be seen as a postscript to his Anzac Day piece about eight Australian soldiers, ‘The Great War – AIF suite’– this time the poem involves a Victorian country town, a great-grandmother he can’t remember meeting, and her brother who died as a German POW in France in 1916.
Almanac Poetry: Forget the Metaphor
April 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment
In this Tuesday’s poem, Kevin Densley points out the basic ‘error’ in Aesop’s famous fable involving the tortoise and the hare.
Almanac Poetry: Platinum Blonde
April 13, 2021 by Leave a Comment
This week’s intriguing poem from Kevin Densley is about 1930s Hollywood glamour icon, Jean Harlow, who died tragically young.
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