Press Release

The Paradise Anthology & Robarta presents

Michael Crane Book launch party: The Church of contradictions

Featuring special guests
Chris Wilson, Odette Snellen and Joel Cohen

The event will feature blues legend Chris Wilson.
playing some of his original songs and blues standards
Chris has released several acclaimed records that have charted
well on the ARIA charts and has supported Billy Joel,
Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello and has played at every major
festival in Australia. He’s one of the best harmonica
players in the world.

Local writer Michael Crane has appeared several times
at the Melbourne Writers Festival, The St Kilda Festival,
The Williamstown Literary Festival, the South Melbourne Festival,
the Art of a Difference Festival and the Darebin Music Feast

He has had more than 300 poems and stories published
in Australian, Canadian, US Literary journals
and also in anthologies, including the Best Australian Poems
2011 & 2014 and the Australian Love Poems (2013) and appeared
on ABC TV Voices program and ABC TV News and breakfast program.

The Church of Contradictions is a new collection of 135 prose poems

Special appearances by Odette Snellen, (former lyricist
with Rebecca’s Empire and co author of the popular
blog Punk & Blanket and Joel Cohen publisher of the St Kilda News
to talk about a forthcoming publication called the ST Kilda Book

THIS IS A FREE EVENT.

Saturday the 28th of February, 2015. 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm

Media enquiries contact: Michael Crane michaelcrane680@yahoo.com