Iconic poet Patrick Lane continued writing a new novel despite poor health GlobeArts
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Here’s what is less well known: Mr. Lane was a kind, generous friend and husband, a gifted gardener, skilled carpenter. He was, as Ms. Crozier describes him, “a sweet domestic man” – a terrific cook who could whip up a mean blackened chicken and heavenly chocolate-chip cookies. A champion clothes ironer. A cat whisperer.
Neil Patrick Lane was born in Nelson, B.C., on March 26, 1939, to the former Eileen Mary Titsworth and Albert Stanley Lane, nicknamed Red. When Patrick was a boy, the family – very poor – relocated to Vernon, B.C. In Patrick’s final year of high school, his girlfriend, Mary Evelyn Hayden, became pregnant and they married. They had three children, Mark, Christopher and Kathryn.
. “It was very strong, direct and decidedly dark; it did not shy away from the subterranean,” she wrote in an e-mail to The Globe. “I think it’s a strong book that holds up.” But in 1976, during an appearance in Regina, Mr. Lane met Ms. Crozier. Nothing happened then beyond some sparks. In 1978, they met again, and that was that. They ended their respective relationships and ran away together.
But poetry felt dangerous. For so long, he had written with a bottle of Scotch on his desk. He turned to prose, writing“It sold thousands and thousands of copies. But what meant the most to him was the number of e-mails he’d get from total strangers who said the book had changed them,” Ms. Crozier says.
Steven Price also took that course, and credits Mr. Lane with his decision to become a poet. “I was totally seduced by this charismatic, charming, surprisingly gentle man.”Mr. Price and Ms. Edugyan are now married and successful writers. “Patrick and Lorna were like our literary parents,” Ms. Edugyan says.
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