NEWS: Readings in 2022:
APRIL 8: Planet Earth Poetry, with featured reader Tolu Oloruntoba
OCTOBER 15: In/Verse Monthly Poetry Reading (FBCW), Zoom hosted by Susan Alexander. Celebrating Patrick Lane’s book The Quiet in Me,
with Lorna Crozier and Seàn Virgo
OCTOBER 22: A reading with fellow poets whose words are in the anthology Voicing Suicide. At the Critical Suicide Studies Symposium 4.1 in Victoria, BC
NEWS: The ReLit awards are back! I'm thrilled to have won the ReLit award for poetry. The ReLits have long history in Canada, presenting for poetry, novels and short stories.
Visit their website here. Or follow them on Instagram.
“The country’s pre-eminent literary prize recognizing independent presses.” — The Globe & Mail
My ring arrived! Fits perfectly. I'm married to poetry. And my guy is a four letter word.
NEWS: My book was one of the five nominated for the 2018 Victoria Butler Book Prize. The event was great fun. (Me and my publisher, Mona Fertig of Mother Tongue Publishing.)
My book was shortlisted for BC Book Prize’s Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2017!
Order from Mother Tongue Publishing or from your favourite indie book store.
Member of the League of Canadian Poets, Federation of BC Writers,
and Professional Editors Association of Vancouver Island
—Patrick Lane