COLIN BELL’S PUBLICATIONS LISTED
I’ve written this page to keep people up to speed with my writing activities thinking it might be useful to make a list of my publications along with links to the publishers’ websites. I shall keep it here up at…
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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 including my poem Over Time. All the poems…
Lewes’ wolf is allowed out at night again.
I need to keep reminding myself that I live in a very attractive English town. I’d been pretty house-bound until recently with a lung condition which is, hopefully, now on the mend and I’ve been trying to get back to…
What to wear at a Lewes fancy dress party if you’re feeling a bit under the weather.
It was a typical Saturday evening in Lewes, UK. Everyone likes dressing up in this ancient market town so when it was my neighbour Harvey’s birthday, it was inevitable that everyone went in for a bit of a make-over. Harvey…
Stephen Dearsley's visit to London captured on film by Adele Ward, mytireless 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 just a memory as Adele Ward, my tirelessly supportive…
How Moscow-based New Yorker, Marco North, recruited me for an unusual new publication.
I’m proud to be included in this unusual new anthology published today, In The Night Count The Stars (Bittersweet Editions http://www.bittersweeteditions.com/ ). It’s the first time my work has appeared in a custom-made e-book and I’m feeling very cutting-edge seeing my…
On the road with Shauna Gilligan and The Writing Process Blog Tour
Shauna Gilligan My fellow Ward Wood novelist, Shauna Gilligan has asked me to join The Writing Process Blog Tour where each writer answers four questions about the writing process and then passes the baton on to another set of writer-bloggers.…
Finding poetic inspiration in Mortlake
I spent last weekend in the peaceful environment of Mortlake in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames where the occasional low flying planes reminds us that we are on the edge of the great metropolitan sprawl that is London.…
Wonderful photographs of Lake Michigan lighthouses remind us that cold can be very cold indeed.
Believe it or not these are photographs not fantasy paintings. The lighthouses in these pictures are by photographers Thomas Zakowski and Tom Gill and they’ve stopped me from ever complaining about the cold here in Lewes, UK. These ice-covered lighthouses are…
This is harsh weather for the homeless
Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin / AP This twenty year old man, Nicholas Simmons, from Greece, New York State, USA was found warming himself on a steam grate with three homeless men just a few blocks from the nation’s Capitol building, during…