Wolfie Caged

How I survived lockdown. I have finally got round to writing a blog now that, wisely or foolishly, the great British lockdown is being eased. Until now, I haven’t quite managed to write about this, the strangest of times. I…
How I survived lockdown. I have finally got round to writing a blog now that, wisely or foolishly, the great British lockdown is being eased. Until now, I haven’t quite managed to write about this, the strangest of times. I…
I am thrilled to be the new Featured Poet International for American poetry publisher, Muse-Pie Press, producers of the three highly-respected poetry journals: Fibonacci poetry specialist, The Fib Review; short-form poetry publishers, Shot Glass Journal; and the spoken-word magazine, Bent…
This week sees the publication of my debut poetry collection, Remembering Blue by Ward Wood Publishing. The poems were written over a period of ten years (2008 – 2018) and, even though I am also lucky enough to have two…
I was supposed to have been at the launch of a new poetry anthology last Thursday but, unfortunately, I was struck down with the latest lurgey and had to take to my bed instead. I am sad to have missed…
After my incarceration at home with a lung infection, I’m wrapping up against the weather and getting a taxi to Brighton’s Latest Music Bar for this evening’s Have A Word, Brighton’s rather smart literary review where I shall be reading from…
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 but that’s no time away. The text has…
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 Of Love. It’s always interesting to see…
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 rather smart paperbacks and it…
This is the neat and tidy bit of my study. I’ve been on a writing rush all week and, amazingly, stuck to my word count schedule. It would’ve been great if I had achieved this without turning the rest of…
I have been recently, on one of my publisher’s advice, been changing the name on my poetry from wolfiewolfgang to my “real” name of Colin Bell – the first of these was published on Every Day Poets just over a…