Write On! Poetry and Inspiration with Patrick Lane

Hosted by Stephen Brockwell

In Person Poetry

Friday

Oct , 2014

12:00pm

Eastern

Knox Presbyterian Church

120 Lisgar Street (at Elgin) • Ottawa

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Write On! Poetry and Inspiration with Patrick Lane

Patrick Lane is our most essential poet: tough, tender, fearless, and beautifully dangerous. For decades he has been our guide to darkness, and our provider of unexpected flashes of brilliant, almost blinding light.

Jane Urquhart

Following the success of his award-winning memoir There is a Season, and his bestselling novel Red Dog, Red Dog, Patrick Lane felt his celebrated poetry career might be at an end when he published his Collected Poems in 2011. But the process of revisiting his collected poetic works rekindled his first love and launched him on a new phase of poetry composition that resulted in his remarkable new collection, Washita.

Join us for a conversation with one of the country’s acknowledged masters of the form on finding inspiration and what only poetry can convey.

The Authors

Patrick Lane

Patrick Lane is one of Canada's finest poets, and his distinguished career spans 50 years and over 24 volumes of poetry as well as award-winning books of fiction and non-fiction. He has won nearly every literary prize in Canada, including the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Canadian Authors Association Award, the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and three National Magazine Awards. His poetry and fiction have been widely anthologized and have been translated into many languages. Lane's most recent book is The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane, which contains more than 400 poems ranging from Letters from the Savage Mind (1966), to new work published in Witness (2010). It is a remarkable collection that demonstrates the breadth of Lane's achievement. The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane is his latest book.

Patrick Lane

Patrick Lane is one of Canada's pre-eminent poets, winner of numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Canadian Authors Association Award, the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence and three National Magazine Awards. His distinguished career spans fifty years and twenty-five volumes of poetry as well as award-winning books of fiction and non-fiction. He has lived and travelled extensively around the world and his work has been published in a number of countries, including England, France, the Czech Republic, Italy, China, Japan, Chile, Colombia, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, and Russia. He has been a writer in residence and teacher at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, the University of Victoria in British Columbia, and the University of Toronto in Ontario. Patrick Lane lives near Victoria, BC, with his wife, the poet Lorna Crozier. His most recent books are The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane (2011) and Washita (2014).