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For generations, Canada's Atlantic coast has inspired stories that evoke the powerful character of the landscape and its people. Host Eleanor Wachtel and writers Alistair MacLeod, George Elliott Clarke, Howard Norman and Joan Clark talk about Canada's east coast and why it has captured the imagination of writers from the Atlantic and beyond.

This week, from Iceland, novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist, Sjón. From surrealist poetry to stories drawing on Greek and Norse myths, to songs for Björk, he's become an international hit.