TransCanada Literary Reading & Performance Series
Esta Spalding
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4:30 pm, Saturday, November 1, 2008
TransCanada Institute
9 University Ave E, Guelph, ON
The award-winning poet, screenwriter, and Guelph resident will be reading selections of her poetry. “Esta Spalding has been hailed as at the forefront of a new generation of Canadian poets. Her first book, Carrying Place, was nominated for the Gerald R. Lampert Award and her second, Anchoress, was a finalist for the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Best Specialty Book of the Year. Her third book, Lost August won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.” -- Anansi Press
Esta Spalding is author of:
- Mere (2001, co-authored with her mother, Linda Spalding)
- Lost Classics (2000, edited with Michael Redhill, Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding)
- Lost August (1999, winner of Pat Lowther Award)
- Anchoress (1997, winner of Libris Award for Best Specialty Book)
- Carrying Place (1995, nominated for Gerald Lampert Award)