Patrick Lane
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Patrick Lane (born March 26, 1939) is a Canadian poet.
Born in Nelson, British Columbia, he first had his poetry published while he was a nomadic logger in the northern part of the province.
Lane has lived for many years with fellow poet Lorna Crozier in Saanichton, British Columbia. He is the brother of poet Red Lane. His poetry tends to deal with humanity's harsh treatment of the Earth, and also often touches on the frequent violence of human interrelations.
From 1990 to 1991, Lane taught creative writing and Canadian literature courses at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and later taught at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia.
[edit] Bibliography
- Letters from the Savage Mind - 1966
- Separations - 1969
- Mountain Oysters - 1971
- The Sun Has Begun to Eat the Mountain - 1972
- Beware the Months of Fire - 1974
- Poems, New and Selected - 1978 (winner of the 1978 Governor General's Award)
- The Measure - 1980
- Old Mother - 1982
- Woman in the Dust - 1983
- A Linen Crow, A Caftan Magpie - 1984
- Selected Poems - 1987
- Milford and Me - 1989
- Winter - 1989 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Mortal Remains - 1991 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- How Do You Spell Beautiful? And Other Stories - 1992
- Too Spare, Too Fierce - 1995 (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)
- Selected Poems - 1997
- The Bare Plum of Winter Rain - 2000 (nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)
- There is a Season - 2004 (nominated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize)
- Go Leaving Strange - 2005 - (nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)
