From a wellspring as deep as eternity – this poem from Kevin Densley concerns the way writing can bubble up from a quiet place within.
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Almanac Poetry: fragments
May 8, 2023 by 2 Comments
Some days it’s better to do nothing in particular, according to today’s poem from Kevin Densley.
Almanac Music: Songs that bring a tear to the eye
May 2, 2023 by 17 Comments
After the style of Kevin Densley, Liam Hauser explores songs that bring a tear to the eye.
Almanac Poetry: Fighting Words
May 1, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This poem by Kevin Densley concerns his father, poetry, reading and a boxing great. [Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this contains the image of a deceased person.]
Almanac Poetry: Looks Good, Though
April 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
In this poem, Kevin Densley looks at Paul Gauguin’s painting ‘The Yellow Christ’ and asks what may be an obvious, if overlooked, question.
Almanac Music: Angels, Devils and Flawed Humanity – Part 2: Ten Songs About Devils
April 14, 2023 by 39 Comments
‘Part 2: Ten Songs About Devils’ is the second article in a three-part piece for The Footy Almanac, to appear over successive weeks. The focus is upon songs which are closely connected to devils in some way. Almanac readers are warmly welcomed to add to Kevin Densley’s list.
Almanac Music: Angels, Devils and Flawed Humanity – Part I: Ten Songs About Angels
April 7, 2023 by 32 Comments
‘Part 1: Ten Songs About Angels’ is the first article in a three-part piece for The Footy Almanac, to appear over successive weeks. The focus is upon songs which are closely connected to angels in some way. Almanac readers are warmly welcomed to add to Kevin Densley’s list.
Almanac Poetry: Rampantly Bad Poets’ Society
April 3, 2023 by 2 Comments
This Monday’s poem, according to Kevin Densley, ‘is one from my archives, decades old, but previously unpublished. In it, the poem’s speaker takes pot-shots at a range of poetry he loathes.’
Almanac Poetry: Jubilee Lake
March 20, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley was inspired by Jubilee Lake, in Daylesford, central Victoria.
Almanac Poetry: Drifting into Oblivion
March 13, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem by Kevin Densley is about women and dreamy, painterly beauty.
Almanac Poetry: At Isobel’s
March 6, 2023 by Leave a Comment
A long-ago stay at a well-known Australian novelist’s house on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria inspired this week’s poem from Kevin Densley.
Almanac (Prose) Poetry: After Reading Ovid’s ‘Dedalus’
February 27, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This Monday’s piece from Kevin Densley is his poetic take on the Greek myth of Dedalus and Icarus as told by the Roman poet, Ovid, in his famous work ‘The Metamorphoses’.
Almanac Poetry: Erasmus Fell
February 20, 2023 by 2 Comments
Eureka! Almost being clocked on the head by a large framed print (of the Renaissance scholar, Erasmus) gave Kevin Densley the idea for this week’s poem.
Almanac Poetry: Archangel
February 13, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Densley’s poem this week references the Archangel Gabriel, Mary and the Annunciation; ‘the basic concerns here are beauty and tenderness’.
Almanac Poetry: The Musician and the Boy
February 6, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley was inspired by the time he played in his school brass band.
Almanac Poetry: Amherst Wisdom
January 30, 2023 by 2 Comments
Kevin Densley based this poem upon a line from a well-known Emily Dickinson poem; Dickinson (1830-1886) was born and lived most of her life in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Almanac Poetry: Journey into the Underworld
January 23, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote that “Hell is other people.” In this wry poem, Kevin Densley observes that it can be as simple as one mate’s dunny!
Almanac Poetry: Unsolved Murder at the Fun-o-Rama
December 19, 2022 by Leave a Comment
This week’s poem from Kevin Densley is loosely based on an infamous unsolved murder that took place about fifty years ago in a locale where he grew up.
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