Gladsongs and Gatherings

Gladsongs and Gatherings, The Story of Poetry in Liverpool and its social context since the 1960’s  Edited Stephen Wade.  Extract from a chapter by David Bateman.

“Another new figure was Jim Bennett, a veteran of the 1960s live poetry scene who’d been going to O’Connor’s back in the days when he was too young to. Beat[1]influenced and very prolific, he was also doing readings in the USA under the cryptically crude pseudonym of Richard Dripping. He also wrote and sang songs and played guitar but was mostly too shy about it for his own good. In August 2000 Long Neck Media released Jim Bennett’s CD Down In Liverpool. At times reminiscent of Adrian Henri and Andy Roberts, it’s a nice bunch of poems and songs.”