Sicilian Vespas and The Sicilian Vespers – a record of my time on the island of Sicily with photographs and a newly published poem.
I had a new poem published with week, Sicilian Vespas, which was written after I spent some time on the wonderful island of Sicily a couple of years ago. My thanks are…
I’ve been Kindled – and it feels just great!
I’m excited to find out that my novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love is now available on Kindle and that the publishers are selling it at a special festive price for a limited…
A thrilling climb up the volcano Mount Etna remembered in my latest published poem
I haven’t been posting on here much over the last week as you my loyal readers will have noticed. I’ve been trying to finish my new novel before Christmas and, this…
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…




