AE Housman said it. Don't give your heart away. But Ben was 18. Why would he listen to that? He listened to the bit about blue remembered hills though. He'd always remember that part. And the blue remembered hills and valleys of Claire's jeans, too. Back in 1980 or thereabouts, oblivious to pretty much everything else, Ben, his girlfriend Theresa, school-friends Liz and Peter and more distant, contemporarily more desirable friends Claire and Poppy, are stuck between adulthood and childhood, school and university, home and something much stranger, much more desirable. The small town girlfriend...
AE Housman said it. Don't give your heart away. But Ben was 18. Why would he listen to that? He listened to the bit about blue remembered hills though...
Poems, words and songs without music performed by Carl Bennett at stand-up gigs and festivals through 2014. That said, Carl Bennett isn't much of a stage name. Maybe Frank Admiration and the Extraordinary Renditions would be a bit more catchy. Most of this spoken word material is new, but like anything new it contains a lot of older themes, like the title, Walking With Blue. It was a poem I tried to write...
Poems, words and songs without music performed by Carl Bennett at stand-up gigs and festivals through 2014. That said, Carl Bennett isn't much of a st...
