My novel is launched in London at the Phoenix with friends, colleagues and the spirits of Noel Coward and Laurence Olivier.
I was up in London on Tuesday evening for a bit of performing at the Phoenix Theatre in Charing Cross Road – well, anyone who knows me thinks I’m a bit of…
My Every Day Poets poem for Yehudi Menuhin is published
Over the weekend, I was going to write about my old friend Yehudi Menuhin but there was a problem with my website providers and this site was down for over…
You write the novel and then you get the review…Viva Lewes!
I’ve always, well nearly always, liked getting letters and parcels through my letterbox. I do the usual thing and ignore the ones that look like bills or circulars and, sometimes, feel…
Bare feet, Luis Alvarenga and my novel cover
This ‘self-portrait’ photograph was taken by the young Portuguese photographer Luis Alvarenga, who likes to record his travels around the World with images of his feet, the part of the body designed…
1967, Sgt Pepper, The Beatles, a few of their friends and me.
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band cover design by Peter Blake (1967) One of the many great moments I remember from the summer of 1967, the so-called Summer Of…
COLIN BELL – NOVELIST, POET AND BLOGGER BIOGRAPHY: Colin Bell was born in a Franciscan convent in Surrey but grew up in Sussex, UK – almost everything he’s done, he did for…
All You Need Is Love: Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love is published today.
I was young in 1967, probably a lot younger than I realized. I was moved by the so-called Summer Of Love but I’m sure I can’t have understood the half of it.…
I have three new Fibonacci poems published today, 30th October – my brain haemorrhage anniversary.
The latest issue of The Fib Review, Issue #16, is posted online today and, sorry to brag, it includes three of my Fibonacci poems continuing my unbroken run in this poetry journal…
My novel is off to the printers today – Stephen Dearsley is leaving home.
I think it’s only normal for me to feel excited today because my novel is off to the printers ready for its release next week on 31 October. I’ve enjoyed each stage…
Second Life: a writer’s life in a virtual world.
Believe it or not, blog-readers, there is still a lot of prejudice around concerning on-line networks and so-called virtual worlds. We are not far enough away from the 20th Century yet for…
1967 and all that.
I’ve been having a bit of a sort in my computer files and found some of my old research photographs for my novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love, published on the 31 October…
Writing the body: poetry and painting – an inspiring combination.
Yesterday, celebrating the completion of the final edit of my about to be published novel, I spent the day at the Mosaic Rooms, an art gallery in Kensington, London. Being a…
I think I’m allowed a few moments of quiet celebration now that my novel is about to go off to the printers.
It was the weekend when I actually believed that my novel really is going to be published and that it is going to be happening almost immediately now. Well, actually 31st October…
Menuhin and Me and Menuhin’s Children
Yehudi Menuhin filming Menuhin’s Children, September 1998 Yesterday I wrote about my Fibonacci elegy poem about the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin and how it will be published, probably next March, by…