Patrick Lane, considered by most writers and critics to be one of Canada’s finest poets, was born in 1939 in Nelson, B.C. He came to Vancouver and co-founded a small press, Very Stone House, with Bill Bissett and Seymour Mayne. He has worked at a variety of jobs from labourer to industrial accountant, but much of his life has been spent as a poet, having produced 25 books of poetry to date. He has won nearly every literary prize in Canada, from the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award to the Dorothy Livesay Prize

Washita

Washita is Patrick Lane’s newest poetry collection. With reverence for the world around him and a refusal to shy away from the harsh realities of the human condition, Lane’s poetry explores his own life, as well as the lives around him with careful mastery.

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