Michael Crane Michael Crane i(A25379 works by)
Born: Established: 1961 Brisbane, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Lullaby for a Summer's Night i "I saw a television special", Michael Crane , single work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Urban & Landscape/Ordinary Lives Michael Crane , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2023 28136381 2023 selected work poetry “The book deals with city grit and with rural reminiscences – a poetry of real people – but mainly about relations among the typically nameless and unnoticed persons of everyday life. Michael doesn’t believe writers should be the heroes of their work and that most people are more interesting than him. So the third section does not feature the author and includes poems about other people. There are poems here ranging from a woman who leaves for Cuba, to a prisoner dealing with life and death.” --Publisher.
1 How the Gods Make Rain Michael Crane , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: FourW (New Writing) , no. 31 2020; (p. 35)
1 How to Commit the Perfect Murder Michael Crane , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 78 no. 3 2018; (p. 74-78)

'Hello. Glad you could make it. I gather you are like me and have at least once said to yourself, "I could kill so and so," but didn't act on it for some reason to do with right and wrong. Don't worry you have come to the right place. Haven't you wondered more than once what it would be like to watch someone die? I can tell you it's not like in the movies where people die instantly from say a bullet. In real life people convulse for a few minutes and try to breathe but can only make gurgling sounds as they swallow their own blood. Don't start getting squeamish on me now. All the blood and the gore is a means to an end. Don't feel sorry for your victim. Feel angry because you have to clean up all the blood afterwards when removing the evidence. There is no such thing as a clean murder. There is always a mess. Even if you choose poison over guns, chances are that your victim will vomit everywhere and if you stab someone especially from behind you will scare the hell out of them and most likely they will piss or shit themselves...' (Publication abstract)

1 Assault and Battery Michael Crane , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 78 no. 1 2018; (p. 28-29)

'Leonard Cohen had just died and Phil and I were wounded, as were a million true believers, especially me with a cut on my eye and Leonard would have liked this prose piece because it has his name in it and he was my second hero next to Bob Dylan who thousands of writers hate for winning the Nobel Prize, ignoring the millions of writers inspired by the Bobster and I was wounded by a man in suit and a panama hat who has his own hero in Walter White from breaking bad and the man...'  (Publication abstract)

 

1 Helicopter Days Michael Crane , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Four W New Writing , no. 29 2018; (p. 28-32)
1 On a Train to Altona i "All the socialites in Toorak and Brighton", Michael Crane , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Offset , no. 17 2017;
1 A Cafe in Marrakesh i "And then there was you, smiling at the races", Michael Crane , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: FourW , no. 28 2017; (p. 32)
1 Aeroplane Girl Michael Crane , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 76 no. 2 2017; (p. 184-187)

Angelina has flown to Sydney to meet Sam, a man she's considering dating. At the airport, she meets Stephen, a man with Down syndrome, and his carer Gary. They ask her about her self-harm scars; she asks them about Stephen's condition. When Sam appears, he immediately insults Stephen. Angelina rejects him and stays at the airport to watch planes with Stephen.

1 One Day in the Country i "The angry horse with the red eyes", Michael Crane , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , July - August vol. 60 no. 7- 8 2016; (p. 113)
1 Not Quite Bukowski Michael Crane , 2016 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 76 no. 2 2016;

In this memoir, the author describes his beginnings as a young poet and how he struggled with discrimination and mental institutions before being diagnosed with schizophrenia. He is excluded from the Melbourne poetry scene, but still considers himself as having grown up in the literary world.

1 Romance Michael Crane , 2016 single work
— Appears in: FourW New Writing Twenty-Seven , no. 27 2016; (p. 17)
1 Bates Michael Crane , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: FourW New Writing Twenty-Seven , no. 27 2016; (p. 16)
1 The Red Haired Woman Buying a Cigarette Lighter at the Brunswick Street 7-11 i "She picks her teeth with a biro.", Michael Crane , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Church of Contradictions : Prose Poems 2015; (p. 53) The Best Australian Poems 2015 2015;
1 Even Wars Have Laws i "In a village in Rwanda,", Michael Crane , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Church of Contradictions : Prose Poems 2015; (p. 52)
1 Strange Places Where Love Sometimes Dwells i "The train from Sydney to Newcastle.", Michael Crane , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Church of Contradictions : Prose Poems 2015; (p. 52)
1 The Interview i "She looked him over, detached", Michael Crane , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Church of Contradictions : Prose Poems 2015; (p. 52)
1 Real Women i "They don't carry flowers,", Michael Crane , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Church of Contradictions : Prose Poems 2015; (p. 51)
1 The Whores on 7th Avenue i "In Grieve Street", Michael Crane , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Church of Contradictions : Prose Poems 2015; (p. 51)
1 Riding in to the Sunset i "A woman who", Michael Crane , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Church of Contradictions : Prose Poems 2015; (p. 51)
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