Who's

M. Travis Lane

M. Travis Lane has lived in Fredericton since 1960, where she has been Honorary Research Associate with the English department at UNB and has written many reviews for The Fiddlehead. She would love to be asked to read at other places, and books of hers which are out of print can be bought from her at bargain prices. Contact her by mail or email. For her writing philosophy please see the conclusion of her book Keeping Afloat: "A Reader's Deductions."

Awards
Mary Harding Baylor Prize, 1952.
Northern Light Editor's Prize, 1975.
Northern Light Editor's Prize, 1980.
The Pat Lowther Memorial Award, 1980.
Arc, 1982.
Fiddlehead, 1991.
Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Poetry Prize, 1994.
Amethyst Review, 1997.
Atlantic Poetry Prize, 2001.
Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence In English Liteature, 2003.
Atlantic Book Prize, 2002, for Keeping Afloat.
Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award, 2006.

Selected Publications
An Inch or so of Garden. (New Brunswick Chapbooks, 1969).
Poems 1968-1972. (Fiddlhead Poetry Books, 1973). ISBN: 0-919197-24-8
Homecomings: Narrative Poems. (Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1977). ISBN: 0-919197-99-x
Divinations and Shorter Poems. (Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1980). ISBN: 0-920110-87-8
Reckonings:Poems 1979-1985. (Fiddlehead Poetry Books & Gooselane Editions, 1988). ISBN: 0-86492-071-7
Solid Things: Poems New & Selected (Cormorant Books, 1989). ISBN: 0-920953-17-4
Temporary Shelter. (Goose Lane Editions, 1993). ISBN: 0-86492-148-9
Night Physics. (Brick Books, 1994). ISBN: 0-919626-70-x
Keeping Afloat. (Guernica Press, 2001) ISBN 1-55071-131-8.
Touch Earth. (Guernica Editions, 2006) ISBN: 1-55071-231-4

Selected Anthologies
Choice Atlantic. (Breakwater, 1990) ISBN: 1-55081-02-0
Poetic Voices of the Maritimes. (Lancelot Press, 1996). 1995/96
1995/96 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry. (Monitor Book Co., 1996).
Voices and Echoes. (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 1997).
Words Out There. (Roseway Publishing, 1999) ISBN: 1-896496-09-1
Coastlines The Poetry of Atlantic Canada (Goose Lane Editions, 2002) ISBN: 0-86492-313-9

Books in Print
Lane, M. Travis
Homecomings. Goose Lane Editions, 1977. ISBN: 0-919197-99-X. $5.95.
Night Physics. Brick Books, 1994. ISBN: 0-919626-70-X. $11.95.
Reckonings: Poems 1979-1985. Goose Lane Editions, 1987. ISBN: 0-86492-071-7. $11.95.
Temporary Shelter: Poems. Goose Lane Editions, 1993. ISBN: 0-86492-148-9, $11.95.
Keeping Afloat (Guernica Editions, 2001) ISBN 1-55071-131-8, $12.00.
Touch Earth (Guernica Editions, 2006) ISBN 4: 1-55071-231-4, $15.00.

M. Travis Lane, 807 Windsor St, Fredericton NB E3B 4G7. Phone: 506-459-7195
E-mail: llane@unb.ca