Review: Syllable of Stone, by Patrick Lane
Charlotte Newman, Poetry Review, Vol. 96:4 Winter 2006/7
...An unsettling affair...set firmly in in the bleak landscape ...in which violence is so commonplace as not to raise an eyebrow - or at least not to provoke discussion. ... His syllables indeed seem to be made of stone: hard, sharp and brutal... Lane's narratives depict an insular environment and evoke a lonely atmosphere, couched in masculine, almost primal language.