Lane, Bill Bissett and Seymour Mayne founded the small-press publisher Very Stone House in 1966.
[2] Lane lived for many years with Crozier in Saanichton, British Columbia, where he tended a garden of 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) which was featured on the television program Recreating Eden,[3] and which he wrote about in the memoir There is a Season.
When he retired from formal teaching, he was still an adjunct professor at UVic and frequently led retreats and workshops for writers.
[6] A recovering alcoholic and cocaine user,[3][7][8] Lane wrote about his struggles with dependency in Addicted: Notes From the Belly of the Beast, which he co-edited with Crozier, and in There is a Season.
On November 21, 2014, Governor General David Johnston presented Patrick Lane with the Order of Canada, recognizing his more than 50 years of contribution to Canadian poetry and literature.