The taste of water chestnuts
To come from neither north nor south.
To hold a strip of paper in your mouth.
To ride the last bus to the depot every night.
To test your signature against the light.
To wear your name sewn in the collar of your coat.
To leave the house, and leave yourself a note.
To look like a newsreader when you grin.
To rent the shoes you’re standing in.
To kick across your footprints in the dirt.
To see the stars as moth holes in the sky’s black shirt.
To cut the crusts before you eat.
To have a voice like February sleet.
To rise each morning from a borrowed bed.
To call the name of someone else instead.
To stir your coffee with a see-through spoon.
To hold your turn, then speak into an empty room.
- Andrea Porter & Heather Taylor
- Caleb Klaces & Joe Dunthorne
- Claire Crowther & Chris McCabe
- David Hart & David Hawkins
- David Tait & Kay Syrad
- Fergus Allen & Stephanie Bolster
- Geoff Sawers & Peter Blegvad
- Jared Stanley & Siddhartha Bose*
- Jennifer Wainwright & Loveday Why
- Katrina Naomi & Sue Wood
- Kirsty Logan & George Ttoouli
- Luke Kennard & Richard Price
- Milorad Krystanovich & Suzanne Batty
- Nicky Arscott & A F Harrold
- Rebecca Farmer & Jane Griffiths
- Sarah Hymas & Jo Brandon
- Simon Smith & Ryan Murphy
- Tess Biddington & Adam Burbage
- Tim Atkins & Jeremy Over*
- Tom Chivers & Emily Berry
- Zoƫ Brigley & Meredith Andrea




