Claire-Louise Bennett

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283 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4 Jul

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Claire-Louise Bennett & Ben Pester: Magic & Mechanics · 4 Jul 2026 podcast

Oh, fuck the leaves and fuck the flowers.

I want to see naked trees and hear the earth gasp and settle into a warm and tender mass of radiant darkness.

I want to see the marks of hooves, not 11th hour disposable barbecues.

I want, most of all, to get inside there.

That's right.

That's always been true.

It's the first thing I can remember.

Standing at the back window, looking at the lawn and knowing exactly everything beneath it.

And wanting to get back there.

You don't know how passionate it is down there.

I believe that's where I lost my heart.

Out beyond and way back and further past that still, and such was it since.

But after all appearances and some afternoons misspent, it came to pass not all was done and over with.

No, no, none shally-shally on that here hill.

Ah, but that was idle then, and change was not an old hand.

No, no, none shilly-shilly on that here first one.'

So much girded and with new multitudes the sun came purple, and the hail turned in a year or two.

And that was not all, no, no.

None gany-gany on that here moonloose.

Turns were taken and time put in, so much heft and grimace, there with callouses all along the diagonal, like no other time in the time taken back, that too like none other that can be compared to a bovine heat raising steam or the eye-cast of a flailing comet.

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