Patrick Lane’s accolades include the Governor General’s Award for Poetry for Poems New and Selected, the Canadian Authors Association Award, and three National Magazine Awards.
Harbour Publishing, which published several of Lane’s collections, said he died Thursday after a long illness. He was 79.
“Patrick has been mentor to a great many Canadian poets over the years,” she said. “He will be missed.” In 2014, he was made an officer of the Order of Canada in honour of his vast body of work. He also received several honorary doctorates, including ones from UVic, where he taught, and Vancouver Island University.
Lane, who lived with his wife, the poet Lorna Crozier, on the Saanich Peninsula, crafted a writing career from his working-class roots. He was born March 26, 1939, near Nelson, and grew up in the B.C. Interior, working blue-collar jobs such as driving truck and working in a sawmill. During the 1970s he earned a reputation as a hard-drinking and hyper-masculine writer willing to delve into life’s darker and grittier sides.
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