Patrick Lane Biography and latest books by Patrick Lane

Patrick Lane is a Canadian poet. His writings include Letters from the Savage Mind, Separations, Calgary City Jail, On the Street, Mountain Oysters, The Sun Has Begun to Eat the Mountain, Passing Into Storm, Beware the Months of Fire, Unborn Things: South American Poems, Albino Pheasants, Poems, New and Selected, No Longer Two People, The Measure, Old Mother, Woman in the Dust, A Linen Crow, A Caftan Magpie, Milford and Me, Winter, Mortal Remains, How Do You Spell Beautiful? And Other Stories, Praise, Too Spare, Too Fierce, The Bare Plum of Winter Rain, There is a Season, Go Leaving Strange, and Red Dog, Red Dog.

Patrick Lane was born in Nelson in British Columbia in Canada. He attended high school and after that, he received no formal education. He took up a lot of odd jobs such as that of a choker, truck driver, Industrial First Aid man, sawmill worker, and salesman. Currently he lives with fellow poet Lorna Crozier in Saanichton in British Columbia. He has taught creative writing and Canadian literature courses at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia.