Renowned Island poet Patrick Lane dies at 79

VICTORIA — Award-winning poet and novelist Patrick Lane has died.
Harbour Publishing, which published several of Lane’s collections, said he died Thursday after a long illness. He was 79.
Yvonne Blomer, Victoria’s poet laureate from 2015 to 2018, said Lane’s death is huge loss to Canadian letters.
Blomer said she met Lane 30 years ago when she was a first-year creative-writing student at the University of Victoria. It was the beginning of a long and supportive relationshi