Music and Poetry with Greg Arnold and Michael Crane
About
Curated by poet Michael Crane and supported by the Palais Theatre, the Emerald Hill Music and Poetry Festival brings together celebrated local writers and musicians in an intimate library setting. Forget pub noise—this is a stage for pure listening.Greg Arnold is the singer-songwriter behind Australian folk-rock institution Things of Stone and Wood. He’s released two top ten albums The Yearning and Junk Theatre. The band won an ARIA and Greg was named Australian Songwriter of the Year by APRA in 1993. Across a thirty-year recording career, he has established a catalogue of melodic, harmonically rich and lyrically meaningful folk rock and acoustic "horsepower pop".
Michael Crane is a Melbourne-based poet and writer with work published in Overland, Meanjin, Southerly and Best Australian Poems. He organised Poetry Idol for the Melbourne Writers Festival, edited the Paradise Anthology, and toured Les Murray nationally. He is the author of 10 books.
Date
Tuesday 2 December 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (UTC+10)Location
Emerald Hill Library
195 Bank Street, South Melbourne Victoria 3205