Patrick Lane fonds. 1966-1971.

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Patrick Lane fonds. 1966-1971.

The fonds is arranged into the following series: manuscripts and correspondence. Correspondents include Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Earle Birney, Irving Layton, Dorothy Livesay, Al Purdy and many other Canadian writers. The manuscripts series contains two manuscripts by Red Lane (1936-1964), Patrick's brother. There was a small second accrual of 2 letters from Patrick Lane to Fraser Sutherland. The text of one of these letters was transcribed by Fraser Sutherland in his letter to McMaster of 7 May 1976. The location of the two letters is unknown.

37 cm of textual records.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6940599

McMaster University

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Lane, Patrick

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Patrick Lane was born in a Kootenay mountain town, Sheep Creek. He moved to Vancouver after the death of his brother Red Lane in 1964. He began Very Stone House Press with Bill Bissett and a group of others in 1964 and then moved to Trumansburg, New York in 1969 to work on the New American and Canadian Poetry periodical. Lane has conducted numerous poetry readings throughout Canada and the United States and has been recognized with Canada Council Awards and grants as well as Ontario Arts Council...