Photography – at first it was just taking pictures, then I went digital and now I discover Instagram.
I have lived long enough now to have seen a transformation in the art of photography. Not that I’d call myself a photographer, but I been taking photographs since I was a…
The Legend of The Flying Dutchman miniaturised as one of my latest Fibonacci poems.
Today I’m celebrating the publication of two more of my Fibonacci poems, Castle Walk and The Flying Dutchman, in that great specialist Fibonacci journal, The Fib Review which is published today and can be…
Silent House – first a poem, now a movie.
My thanks are due to the multi-talented Joseph Nussbaum for his film, so carefully made, of my poem Silent House. It was a great experience sharing brains with such a perceptive director.…
No pretence – hand on heart: I’m thrilled to have my Fibonacci poem nominated for The Pushcart Prize.
I’m thrilled this week to be told that I’ve been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize by American publisher Musepie Press who have been publishing my poetry in two of their journals,…
My one-eyed neighbour makes it into one of my newly published Fibonacci poems.
I’m often under scrutiny in my small Lewes urban garden but I’m getting used to it. I live next door to a one-eyed Siamese cat and, without actually being on speaking terms,…
A new poetry anthology includes one of my poems among the first fruits of Autumn.
I got my copy of a new anthology today, The Four Seasons published by Kind of a Hurricane Press in Florida, USA. I’m happy that they wanted to publish my short poem, Gardening Tips, in this…
One man and his pencil – a special relationship.
I own a number of pens, ball point, felt-tip and fountain, and they all have their function in my life. Also, a lot of my time is spent at the computer and…
Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love: A novel inspired by The Beatles, Brighton and James Joyce.
I’ve been looking at some of my answers published on-line yesterday, pleased to remember those foothill years as a novelist when I was planning my first novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love. Sometimes,…
Virtual Writers ask me to remember why I wrote Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love.
The lively online writers’ community, Virtual Writers, has asked me to do a questions and answers session about my novel Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love (published by Ward Wood Publishing). It was enjoyable thinking…
My poem On Gloucester Road and two persuasive Americans.
Wolfgang Glinka in On Gloucester Road My prose poem, On Gloucester Road, has had an interesting life so far. I wrote it after being contacted with the Moscow-based American publisher, Marco North…
My three Fibonacci poems about the composer Tchaikovsky published in The Fib Review.
Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) My three new Fibonacci poems about the Russian composer Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) were published yesterday in that pioneering and Fibonacci-dedicated online journal,…
The publication of a Fibonacci poem and another poetry anthology brighten my Lewes weekend.
I’ve had a mini-run on poetry publication over the weekend. I’ve just received a copy of a new poetry anthology, Tic Toc, published by the American company Kind Of Hurricane Press and…
My time in Lisbon, Portugal was pure poetry.
I spent a week in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, recently. It was my first time in this interesting country, the only Western European state that I hadn’t visited before. I wasn’t…
Looking for fine art and finding poetry at Le musée Paul Valéry, Sète
Le musée Paul Valéry, Sète One of my greatest pleasures in travelling is visiting different towns and exploring their art galleries. It was no different on my recent trip to Sète in the…
I am Colin Bell, a UK novelist and poet, previously a TV producer-director of arts programmes for British, American, German and Japanese broadcasters. I am also known as the blogger Wolfie Wolfgang. My two novels are Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love (Ward Wood Publishing, 2013) and Blue Notes, Still Frames (Ward Wood Publishing, 2017). They are both available in paperback or as Kindle editions. My debut poetry collection, Remembering Blue (Ward Wood Publishing 2019) is now available. My poetry has been published in various journals and anthologies in the UK and the USA.
Remembering Blue is the debut poetry collection by Colin Bell, whose novels Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love and Blue Notes, Still Frames are also published by Ward Wood.
'These poems were written during ten years recovering from a life-threatening brain haemorrhage.
'The poems began before I left hospital. They document, often tangentially, that period, from awakening out of a six-hour coma, through several years of rehabilitation, remembering and decoding - the good things as well as the bad: childhood and adolescence revisited, adult relationships reassessed, and most significantly, what is important now that I am fully recovered.
'Awakening from that death-like coma was a rebirth. When things were difficult, it helped to remember blue.'
- Colin Bell
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It's Brighton in 1994 Busker Joe lives on the beach with his flute and his troubled Goth girlfriend, Victoria, who’s a singer. He borrows a bath towel for her from Rachel and Alan, a prosperous young couple from the rapidly growing world of computers. The meeting will change all their lives…and other lives too.
There’s Harry, a beach bum drummer; Nico, a transient American who takes revealing photographs of passers-by; Kanti and Diep, mysterious artist twins from Nepal; Lionel and John who reveal more than their bodies on the nudist beach; and pub landladies Jacqueline and Rosemary who top up their income by dabbling in the sex trade.
Joe is always there, somewhere, weaving more than melodies with his flute.
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It's 1967 and the start of the Summer of Love. In Brighton, Stephen Dearsley is tempted and intimidated by the way his generation is casting off traditional ways of dress along with the old ways of thinking. His ambition to become a biographer is fulfilled when he's commissioned to research the life story of the mysterious Austin Randolph.
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WolfieWolfgang, my alter ego, writes daily blogs and reviews about whatever takes his fancy or gets up his nose. He'd love to see you.
