Sabrina: I let Ed choose what we’d do and he chose a poem accompanied by percussion and change as theme. The first thing is that doing anything with anyone else takes about ten times as long as it would to do it on your own. I mean – this sort of thing is never quick at the best of times. This has taken months, but it was great to do something with Eddie and I really learnt from the process, even though it reminded both of us that I have no sense of rhythm whatsoever. Except I seem to be able to grope the rhythm out of a poem – he sent me off to read Carol Ann Duffy and I could find her rhythm but he couldn’t (small moment of triumph for me there). Anyway Eddie said no rhyme no rhythm and, though I’m not keen on sounding like a Christmas carol, I did my best. Then he produced a rhythm, and I pushed him and pushed him til it had a bit of life to it (and a middle eight). Not my greatest vocal delivery, but we were in urgent need of completion. The mixing session pushed our relationship to the edge, but we have product at last, and I have a far greater understanding of rhythm in poetry than I had before we started, though I still can’t find the ‘one’.

Eddie: I had never played percussion to poetry before and Sabrina had never written a poem that would be accompanied by a drum beat. At first I couldn’t find the rhythm in her poem – there wasn’t an obvious one. She was having problems reading to a simple beat. It was very frustrating at first and I suggested that there should be some kind of rhyme in her writing (call me old fashioned). After many hours of hair pulling and argument we finally reached a compromise. Experimenting with rhythms for the piece was the next step and the fun started. Should it be 6/8, 4/4 or 13/8? What instrumentation – conga, snare, cahon? Then came the mixing…. In the end I think we came up with an interesting and thought provoking piece of art – watch out Kate Tempest….