December 10, 2019 – 11:08 pm
from Winter ii Across the river, children are eating snow, their lips the colour of tiny kingfishers in the numbing cold. The delight they take in the melting of each snowflake on their tongues reminds me joy is there, in everything, and even when we can’t see it. Susan Musgrave (1951 – ) from Obituary […]
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April 20, 2019 – 10:39 am
So this is it, Lane. Not a living wake, but a celebration of all your living. And this is only the beginning. Wait until you’re dead. Susan Musgrave, editor, from You Loved Being a Stranger – 55 Poets Celebrate Patrick Lane, Harbour Publishing, 1994 There are times when I no longer know if what I […]
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Join the local literary & UVic communities as poets & authors celebrate the life of the late Patrick Lane. This evening of poetry and tribute to the acclaimed poet and late UVic Department of Writing professor Patrick Lane will feature readings and memorials by a number of Writing alumni, including emcee Steven Price, Esi Edugyan, […]
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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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By Richard Osler
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Posted in Poetry
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Also tagged Brian Brett, Gillian Jerome, Harbour Publishing. Basho, Jane Urquart, Lorna Crozier, Margaret Atwood, Patrick Lane, Patrick Lane Retreats at Honeymoon Bay Lodge British Columbia, Richard Osler, Sean Virgo, Steven Price, The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane
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