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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-ensem