Knock about with the Fitzgerald-Trouts

Esta Spalding has lived in Hawaii, Toronto and Vancouver. Her collections of poetry include Carrying Place, Anchoress and Lost August. She is the co-author (with her mother, Linda Spalding) of a novel, Mere. Her latest collection of poems is The Wife’s Account, which bears detailed witness to one year in the life of a marriage.

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. She is the editor of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology.

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