Almanac Poetry: Revelations

Today’s poem from KD is: ‘a mash up of T S Eliot, Franz Kafka, Cole Porter and Billy Bunter, combined with a general, unfocused (probably Catholic in origin) desire for forgiveness.’ Kevin adds, ‘Other than that, it’s also a bit of fun; a literary bonbon.’ [Contains minor strong language – Ed.]

Almanac Short Fiction: ‘Bostell’s Lager Man’

The opening of Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’, in which Gregor Samsa awakes from uneasy sleep to find himself transformed into a giant bug, receives an unusual twist in this short story from Kevin Densley. Is KD’s piece a strange cautionary tale? An example of ‘the Aussie surreal’? A modern Aesop’s fable with its origins in the brewery? You be the judge.