Did Patrick lane rob a bank?

Answer 1

No. Patrick Lane is married to Lorna Crozier, another poet. The bank-robber writer married to another poet is Stephen Reid, married to the somewhat talented but daft Susan Musgrave.

Lane's gothic struggles with self and the bad behaviour he makes hay of to make a living take the form of Alcoholism.

Gardens, booze, blue-collar work, and the tortured uncertainty of self, and making himself seem more bad-ass and rebellious than he is. That's Lane.

Theft, armed robbery, shooting at police and bystanders, cocaine, heroin, a conviction that its really all about his ability to find peace with the world, and suggesting he just does what anyone would in his circumstances, that's Reid.