Welcome to the official website of Lorraine Gane, poet, writer, teacher, editor, and writing mentor

Over the last twenty-five years my aim has been to write about the place where the ordinary and the extraordinary meet. Life circumstances have aided this “deep looking,” particularly the illness and death of loved ones (recounted in Even the Slightest Touch Thunders on My Skin), then with my excursions through the forests and other wild places of Salt Spring Island, where I’ve lived for many years (see The Way the Light Enters and The Blue Halo). Along with this has been my work with other writers through retreats, online courses, consultations, and manuscript development/editing. As with my own writing, I strive to help writers express themselves with clarity, cohesiveness, and above all truth. If my approach appeals to you, please have a look at my offerings and contact me for a free twenty-minute phone consultation.

 

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If I Have Known Beauty Book Launch Nov. 30, 7 p.m. Salt Spring Library

2024 Courses

IF I HAVE KNOWN BEAUTY Elegies for Phyllis Webb by Lorraine Gane (Raven Chapbooks, 2024) Co-winner of the 2023 Gwendolyn MacEwen Prize and finalist in the 2024 National Magazine Awards  (reviews click here) Lorraine Gane’s If I Have Known Beauty is a brightly-spangled example of the essential conversations poets have with one another through their poetry. It is also a deeply moving tribute to her friend, the poet Phyllis Webb. What will fill the absence, Gane asks, knowing the only true possibility: the space you were / grows larger. These poems glide into that widening space like a long drawn out note of sweet music. —Stephen Collis, author of A History of the Theories of Rain ORDER BOOKS