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Poetry Anthologies (multiple Authors)

Mocambo Nights

edited by Patrick Lane

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Oct 2001
Category
Anthologies (multiple authors)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896860909
    Publish Date
    Oct 2001
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

Award-winning poet Patrick Lane is the editor of this remarkable anthology of poetry featuring Canada’s most revered writers alongside emerging poets and brand new writers – all readers at the Mocambopo readings series in Victoria, BC.

About the author

Patrick Lane, considered by most writers and critics to be one of Canada's finest poets, was born in 1939 in Nelson, BC. He grew up in the Kootenay and Okanagan regions of the BC Interior, primarily in Vernon. He came to Vancouver and co-founded a small press, Very Stone House, with bill bissett and Seymour Mayne. He then drifted extensively throughout North and South America. He worked at a variety of jobs, from labourer to industrial accountant, but much of his life was spent as a poet. He was also the father of five children and grandfather of nine. He won nearly every literary prize in Canada, from the Governor General's Literary Award to the Canadian Authors Association Award to the Dorothy Livesay Prize. In 2014, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada, an honour that recognizes a lifetime of achievement and merit of a high degree. His poetry and fiction have been widely anthologized and translated into many languages. His more recent books include Witness: Selected Poems 1962-2010 (Harbour Publishing, 2010), The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane (Harbour Publishing, 2011), Washita (Harbour Publishing, 2014; shortlisted for the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award), Deep River Night (McClelland & Stewart, 2018) and a posthumous collection, The Quiet in Me (Harbour Publishing, 2022). Lane spent the later part of his life in Victoria, BC, with his wife, the poet Lorna Crozier. He died in 2019.

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