So, President Trump, take your pick: Treason, Perjury, Obstructing Justice, Conflict of Interest or simple Incompetence?
Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States of America So what’s it going to be for the President of the USA? We learn something new about his…
Two more Fibonacci poems published in June’s The Fib Review
That splendid and pioneering journal The Fib Review is published three times a year, and the latest issue came out at the end of June with, I’m glad to write, two new…
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…
Cavalli’s Hipermestra – an Italian masterpiece from opera’s dawn gets its UK premier at Glyndebourne 2017.
Francesco Cavalli (1602 – 1676) I have had many inspiring experiences at Glyndebourne opera house over the decades (it seems like centuries) and every time I go, I come away with with…
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…
Let’s not give up on the EU – it’s still not too late.
She did it – signed the letter that triggered the United Kingdom’s ‘Brexit’ from the European Union. I had hoped, ever since the depressing referendum result, that, somehow, we might avoid the…
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…
Shelley’s Ozymandias is dug up in Cairo
At the weekly on-line poetry event that I host every Thursday, I thought, after seeing those amazing photographs from Egypt, that I had to read the great and resounding sonnet Ozymandias…
After BREXIT, what now for the United Kingdom?
This week, British prime minister, Theresa May looked rattled. She was doing a Trump by walking away from hints that she might have triggered the infamous Article 50 this week to, yes,…
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…
My new website is launched today
It’s St David’s Day and that means it’s daffodil opening time here in Lewes, UK.
Midway through February and the rain has come my way, here in Lewes, UK. It might get a guy down, damp feet and water down the back of the neck, but,…
I try to squeeze the great composer Sibelius into a miniature Fibonacci box.
Jean Sibelius (1865 – 1957) I have two new Fibonacci poems published today in the splendid Fibonacci specialist journal, The Fib Review. It’s always a challenge to try to squeeze…
Forget the Oscars camp chaos but don’t forget three great films and four great actors.
Moonlight I hope the Oscars Ceremony 2017 doesn’t just get remembered for the chaos that broke our last night over the winner of the best film. OK, it’s extraordinary that…
Hopeful signs bursting out all over Lewes.
As we reach the middle of February here in Lewes, UK, our winter is releasing its frozen grip out there and I can already see signs of hope out there on the…
Things are changing here at Wolfiewolfgang
Mr Nnamdi Nwachukwu is working on my website at the moment so look out for a few changes. They will all be for the good – I hope. Let me now…
I am Colin Bell, an Anglo-Irish European citizen based in the UK. I am a 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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