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Review - Lost August by Esta Spalding (1102 words) |
 | Esta Spalding is a Vancouver poet/screenwriter whose new book, Lost August (Anansi, 1999) attempts to build on the early success of a thus-far prodigal career. |
| This technique infuses each image with a degree of meaning upon their respective initial occurrence; Spalding then invokes the reader's memory of that image when reintroducing the same image later in the collection, always slightly modifying it by differing context and thereby adding richness while avoiding redundance. |
| A mid-poem switch to a past where two sets of parents give birth to children resulting in the eventual writing of this poem by one of these progeny to the other is jarring due to the absolute lack of "build", or foundation occurring at the beginning of the poem. |
| Film Festival 2003 - CTV.ca (697 words) |
| Spalding says the most difficult task of adapting a novel is trying to compress its story into 90 minutes. |
| Spalding has written in collaboration with her mother Linda Spalding and her stepfather Michael Ondaatje on numerous books. |
| Spalding says her experience was made easier by a surprising piece of advice Gowdy gave to her: Forget about the book and write your own storyline. |
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