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There Is a Season:a Memoir
[Paperback - 2005]
patrick lane
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Additional Category: Gardening & Landscaping
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart | ISBN: 9780771046346 | Pages: 320
Shipping Weight: .352 | Dimensions: 6.02 x .72 x 8.99 inches

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Believed by many to be one of the finest poets of his generation, Patrick Lane is also a passionate gardener. He lives on Vancouver Island, a place of uncommon beauty, where the climate is mild, the air is soft, and the growing season lasts nearly all year long.

Lane has gardened for as long as he can remember, and sees his garden’s life as intertwined with his own. And when he gave up drinking, after years of addiction, he found solace and healing in tending to his yard. In this exquisitely written memoir, he relates stories of his hard early life in the context of the landscape he’s created. As he observes the seasonal changes, a plant or a bird or the way a tree bends in the wind brings to mind an episode from his storied past.

Lane writes evocative descriptions of the animals, birds, insects, and plants that are his garden, and of the relationship he has to them all. Accompany Lane as he wanders his garden, where botanical “madeleines” release in him a flood of memory.

About the Author

PATRICK LANE was one of Canada's pre-eminent poets, winner of numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Canadian Authors Association Award, the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence and three National Magazine Awards. His distinguished career spanned more than fifty years. He wrote twenty-five volumes of poetry, as well as award-winning books of fiction and non-fiction including Red Dog, Red Dog; There Is a Season; and Deep River Night.

He lived and travelled extensively around the world and his work has been published in a number of countries. He was writer in residence and teacher at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, the University of Victoria in British Columbia, and the University of Toronto in Ontario. Patrick Lane most recently lived near Victoria, BC, with his wife, the poet Lorna Crozier. He died in 2019.

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