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…
My fiftieth published poem celebrates the life of Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi and Me I heard over the weekend that my Fibonacci elegy poem, Yehudi Menuhin, is to be published by Every Day Poets – it will probably come out next March on the…
First Wednesday Writers find a new Lewes home – come and join us.
I’ve been running a poetry group here in Lewes for a year now. We took a summer break and made an amicable agreement with our previous venue, both sides agreeing that it…
I’m the “writer who cheated death” – if you don’t believe me buy today’s Sussex Express.
I’ve finally made it to the pages of my local newspaper, the Sussex Express, who have decided to run a “human interest” piece on the imminent publication of my novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer…
Café society at The Poetry Place – poetry and fun in Covent Garden
I was at the the Poetry Society’s Poetry Café in Covent Garden, London on Friday for a poetry event hosted by my publishers, Ward Wood Publishing. I’d never been there before thinking…
Getting published is an honour and a thrill – I’m going to enjoy every minute of it.
Over the weekend I received two copies of Cinnamon Press’s latest anthology, Reaching Out – a book of poetry and short stories which contains one of my poems, Home Movie. It felt good handling these…
Stephen Dearsley’s visit to London captured on film by Adele Ward, my tireless publisher.
My reading at the splendid Polari literary salon at London’s Southbank Centre last month will remain a fond memory. Luckily, I discovered the other day that it doesn’t have to be…
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.
