• Writers and Company

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Writers and Company

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  • CBC Radio's Writers and Company offers an opportunity to explore in depth the lives, thoughts and works of remarkable writers from around the world. Hosted by Eleanor Wachtel.
    Copyright © CBC 2024
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Episodes
  • Poet Raymond Antrobus on hearing, seeing and grieving through verse

    Poet Raymond Antrobus on hearing, seeing and grieving through verse
    Apr 28 2024

    This week on Writers and Company, British poet Raymond Antrobus. Antrobus spoke with Eleanor Wachtel in 2019 about his collection, The Perseverance, which explores his complicated relationship with his late father and growing up deaf.

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    59 mins
  • Colm Toibin on the unspoken and powerful dynamics between mothers and sons

    Colm Toibin on the unspoken and powerful dynamics between mothers and sons
    Apr 21 2024

    This week, Irish novelist Colm Toibin discusses his short story collection, Mothers and Sons, which explores the unspoken and shifting dynamics in these relationships. Toibin is the author of Brooklyn, which was made into an Oscar-nominated feature film starring Saoirse Ronan, as well as Nora Webster, The Magician and more. His latest novel, Long Island, is the sequel to Brooklyn.
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    53 mins
  • Alice Oswald on poetry, nature and the shedding of identity

    Alice Oswald on poetry, nature and the shedding of identity
    Apr 14 2024

    To celebrate poetry month, a conversation with one of England’s greatest living poets, Alice Oswald. Winner of the 2017 international Griffin Poetry Prize for her book Falling Awake, Oswald's work explores the relationship between human life and the natural world. Her latest title, Nobody, is a book-length poem inspired by Homer’s Odyssey.
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    53 mins
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