My Fibonacci poem Music of the Spheres is set to music.
My American composer friend Tim Risher has done this terrific setting of my Fibonacci poem Music of the Spheres (originally published in the Fib Review). He’s been very clever with my speaking…
My third Brighton novel almost ready.
I have just finished the third draft of my new Brighton novel, my third, Over the Hills is a Long Way Off. I will put it aside for a few months and…
Two trusted and hard-working friends have reached the end of their working lives.
My two old and trusted pencils have finally reached the end of their working lives and, with much sadness, well, a touch of sadness, I’m going to thank them and put them…
Blue Notes, Still Frames – my new Brighton novel gets a rock ‘n roll launch in Brighton.
Have A Host, Ellis Collins with Octopuses and me at the Blue Notes, Still Frames launch. It was a great night, last Thursday, when my new Brighton novel, Blue Notes, Still Frames (Ward…
My new website has arrived
My thanks to Nnamdi Nwachukwu, my very clever friend, who has designed and sorted my websites which we are unveiling today. There will be much more to follow but please take a…
My new Brighton novel will be launched at Brighton’s Have A Word in March
My new novel, Blue Notes, Still Frames is now officially published and generally available from online sites as well as bookstores and it’s now time to announce the book’s Brighton launch which will take…
I like being a two-novel writer.
Copies of my new Brighton novel arrived today – hurray! Now that I have the actual physical objects, I really feel like it’s been published. Stephen Dearsley, from my first novel, Stephen…
My new Brighton novel is published!
Great news! My new novel has arrived. It’s always a thrilling moment to see it in print after the three years of drafts and redrafts. Yes, it really exists – that’s my…
Come and hear me read from my new novel – published this month.
I shall be reading from my about to be published novel, Blue Notes, Still Frames, (Ward Wood Publishing – http://wardwoodpublishing.co.uk/titles-fiction-colin-bell-blue-notes-still-frames.htm ) on Thursday the 12th January here in Lewes UK. If you…
Numbers count in Fibonacci Poetry – and for The Fib Review’s anniversary issue.
I’m celebrating today and it’s not all about numbers. They figure strongly in writing the usually short poetry form the Fibonacci poem which is based on the so-called Fibonacci Sequence of numbers.…
And now my Fibonacci Poem Brief Encounter gets the movie treatment.
In a collaboration with the multi talented American film-maker Joseph Nussbaum, another of my Fibonacci poems has been turned into a miniature movie using the virtual world of Second Life as its…
My miniature Fibonacci poem The Music Of The Spheres becomes a movie – Wow!
I wrote a miniature Fibonacci poem five years ago on the gigantic subject of humanity’s ideas of the Universe and religion – well, there’s no need for humility if you’re writing a…
Me, Marc Bolan and David Bowie – meeting again in The Fib Review.
David Bowie and Marc Bolan in rehearsal at Granada Television in 1977. In the early years of my TV career at one of Britain’s leading independent television companies, Granada, I…
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…
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.
