Patrick Lane was awarded The Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence at the 2007 BC Book Prizes. In his continuing series on the memoir, Bill Schermbrucker (Show #24) interviews Patrick Lane at his home in B.C. about his book There is a Season, McClelland & Stewart. "I sat down one August," Patrick Lane says, "and chopped out 400 pages." Others mentioned include his editor -- if you're a writer, follow this link -- Dinah Forbes; poet Brian Brett; poet P.K. Page.

Lane's books include Go Leaving Strange, Syllable of Stone and Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast, edited with his wife, award-winning poet Lorna Crozier. His latest book of poetry is Last Water Song, Harbour Publishing.