Tag Archives: The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane

When Beauty Falls In Our Hands – Patrick Lane

July 6, 2013 – 11:14 pm

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be in Kelowna to see the celebrated Canadian poet Patrick Lane receive an Honourary Doctorate from UBC – Okanagan. I also was privileged to hear him give the Convocation address. I was thrilled today to discover that the Globe and Mail has published a copy of the address. […]

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And Still We Sing – A New Year’s Eve Celebration of the Life and Poems of Patrick Lane

December 31, 2012 – 4:31 pm

It is late October, 2012, last evening of the Vancouver Writers’ Festival. There is music in the big room already. Music made by voices. The event starts in thirty minutes but many of the four hundred-or-so chairs are already filled. The music is sweet and unique. Those particular voices. Those places in the room where […]

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