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'''Patrick Lane''' (March 26, 1939 – March 7, 2019) was a Canadian poet.<ref name=canenc>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/patrick-lane "Patrick Lane"]. ''[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]'', February 10, 2008.</ref> He had written in several other genres, including essays, short stories, and was the author of the novel ''Red Dog, Red Dog''.
==Biography==
Born in [[Nelson, British Columbia|Nelson]], British Columbia, he attended high school in [[Vernon, British Columbia|Vernon]] and had no further formal education.<ref name="site">[http://www.patricklane.ca/profile.html patricklane.ca] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630144852/http://www.patricklane.ca/profile.html |date=June 30, 2007 }}-- Patrick Lane's website, profile (retrieved July 11, 2007)</ref> He first began writing poetry seriously in 1960. During his twenties, he held a series of jobs in the logging industry in the northern part of the province, working as a choker, truck driver, Industrial First Aid man, [[sawmill]] worker, and salesman, among others. In 1965, he moved to Vancouver and began to connect with other poets of his generation.
Lane, [[Bill Bissett]] and [[Seymour Mayne]] founded the small-press publisher Very Stone House in 1966.
In 1968, Lane's first marriage ended and he moved to South America to dedicate himself completely to writing. When he returned, he remarried and established a home in the Okanagan Valley in 1972. In 1974, he and his wife moved to the [[Sunshine Coast, British Columbia|Sunshine Coast]].<ref name="site"/>
After a second divorce in 1978, he became Writer-in-Residence at [[University of Manitoba]], where he met fellow poet [[Lorna Crozier]]. That same year, Lane won the [[Governor General's Award]] for his collection ''Poems, New and Selected''.<ref name="site"/>
Lane lived for many years with Crozier in [[Central Saanich, British Columbia|Saanichton]], British Columbia, where he tended a garden of {{convert|0.5|acre|ha}} which was featured on the television program ''[[Vision TV|Recreating Eden]]'',<ref name="homepage">[http://www.patricklane.ca/index.html patricklane.ca]-- Patrick Lane's website, home (retrieved July 11, 2007)</ref> and which he wrote about in the memoir ''There is a Season''.
He participated in [[Dial-A-Poem Montreal]] from 1985 to 1987.<ref>Anne Cimon. "Dial a Poem." ''Cross Canada Writer's Quarterly: The Canadian Writer's Magazine'', Volume 8, No. 2. 1986. p. 31.</ref>
From 1986 to 1990, 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]] from 1991 to 2004. When he retired from formal teaching, he was still an adjunct professor at UVic and frequently led retreats and workshops for writers.<ref name="site"/> In 2007, he was awarded the fourth annual [[Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence]] for his lifetime contribution to literature in British Columbia.<ref name="BC Book Prizes-2">[http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/lgaward07.htm BC Book Prizes]</ref> His novel ''Red Dog, Red Dog'' was published in 2008.<ref>[http://www.quillandquire.com/review/red-dog-red-dog/ "Red Dog Red Dog"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805203821/https://quillandquire.com/review/red-dog-red-dog/ |date=August 5, 2018 }}. ''Quill & Quire''</ref>
A recovering alcoholic and cocaine user,<ref name="homepage"/><ref>Patrick Lane, ''There is a Season: A memoir'' (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd.) {{ISBN|0-7710-4634-0}}</ref><ref>Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane, ''Addicted: Notes from the belly of the beast'' {{ISBN|1-55054-886-7}}</ref> Lane wrote about his struggles with dependency in ''Addicted: Notes From the Belly of the Beast'', which he co-edited with Crozier, and in ''There is a Season''.
On November 21, 2014, Governor General David Johnston presented Patrick Lane with the Order of Canada, recognizing his more than 50 years of contribution to Canadian poetry and literature. His final collection of poems, ''Washita'', was nominated for the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/saanich-poet-patrick-lane-makes-gg-award-shortlist-1.2080164|title=Saanich poet Patrick Lane makes GG Award shortlist|website=Times Colonist|date=October 8, 2015 |accessdate=March 8, 2019}}</ref>
He had five children, three from his first marriage and two from his second.<ref name="site"/> He was the brother of poet Red Lane.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/patrick-lane-on-poetry-and-poets|title= Patrick Lane on poetry and poets in Canada|last= Fulford|first= Robert|date= 23 March 1970|website= CBC Archives|publisher= CBC|access-date= 9 March 2019|quote= They discuss his late brother and fellow poet Red Lane}}</ref> He lived the latter part of his life in the [[Victoria, BC]] area and died on March 7, 2019, aged 79 .<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/patrick-lane-award-winning-canadian-poet-and-novelist-dead-at-79-1.5047773 |title=Patrick Lane, award-winning Canadian poet and novelist, dead at 79 |last=van Koeverden |first=Jane |date=March 7, 2019 |website=[[CBC Arts]] |language=en |access-date=March 8, 2019 |archive-date=March 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190311071028/https://www.cbc.ca/books/patrick-lane-award-winning-canadian-poet-and-novelist-dead-at-79-1.5047773 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Bibliography==
*''Letters from the Savage Mind'' – 1966
*''Separations'' – 1969
*"Calgary City Jail" – 1969
*"On the Street" – 1970
*''Mountain Oysters'' – 1971
*''The Sun Has Begun to Eat the Mountain'' – 1972
*"Passing into Storm" – 1973
*''Beware the Months of Fire'' – 1974
*"certs" – 1974
*''Unborn Things: South American Poems'' – 1975
*"Albino Pheasants" – 1977
*''Poems, New and Selected'' – 1978 (winner of the [[1978 Governor General's Awards|1978 Governor General's Award]])
*''No Longer Two People'' – 1979 (with Lorna Crozier)
*''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 [[1990 Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]])
*''Mortal Remains'' – 1991 (nominated for a [[1991 Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]])
*''How Do You Spell Beautiful? And Other Stories'' – 1992
*"Praise" – 1993
*''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]])
:published in the US as ''What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered'' 2004 (nominated for [[Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Nonfiction|Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Non-fiction]])
*''Go Leaving Strange'' – 2005 – (nominated for the [[Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize]])
*''Red Dog, Red Dog'' – 2008
*''Witness: Selected Poems 1962–2010'' – 2010
*''The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane'' – 2011
*''Washita'' – 2014
*''Deep River Night'' - 2018
===Edited with Lorna Crozier===
*''Breathing Fire'' – 1995
*''Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast'' – 2001
*''Breathing Fire 2'' – 2004
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* Archives of Patrick Lane [http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=5107817&lang=eng (Patric Lane fonds, R16154)] are held at [[Library and Archives Canada]]
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