153 - Stephanie Arsoska

CN: poor health (coughing) - NB this episode was recorded on the 24th May, 2019, before Coronavirus began to spread.

Joining a slightly poorly Charles Adrian in Acton for the 127th Second-Hand Book Factory is Mum and facilitator of creative practice Stephanie Arsoska. They talk about creativity as an act of devotion, something nasty in the woodshed and the first poet of love.

Correction: Charles Adrian misses out the all-important word “nasty” in the Stella Gibbons quotation “Something nasty in the woodshed”.

If you are interested in Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho, you can also find some of these on Twitter, tweeted out by @sapphobot (https://twitter.com/sapphobot?lang=en). Sappho Bot posts every 2 hours and uses translations that include liftings from Anne Carson’s If Not, Winter.

The residency on Lesvos where Charles Adrian and Stephanie spent some time in the summer of 2016 was run by Duende, whose artistic director is John Britton. You can find out more about their work here (http://www.duende-ensemble.com/).

Recorded on the 24th May, 2019.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of If Not, Winter by Anne Carson, published in 2003 by Virago Press; book design by Carole Devine Carson and Gabriele Wilson.

More info and a link to a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Book listing:

New And Selected Poems by Mary Oliver

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

If Not, Winter by Anne Carson