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Linda Gray Sexton: Anne Sexton's 45 Mercy Street

Content Warning: This episode contains references to suicide. Listener discretion is advised. Please take care of yourself and seek support if needed.In this moving episode of Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives, travel back to October 1994 to hear Linda Gray Sexton spea ...  Show more

Seamus Heaney: Death of a Naturalist

In this captivating episode of Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives, step back in time to 1990 Toronto and immerse yourself in the lyrical world of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. The recording captures Heaney in an intimate reading at the Harbourfront Reading Ser ...  Show more

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