My friend and companion the iPod keeps me running on that treadmill.
Going to the gym is enjoyable enough. I try to go at least three times a week to the pleasantly eccentric one at the White Hart Hotel, near to where I live…
My miniature Fibonacci poem The Music Of The Spheres becomes a movie – Wow!
I wrote a miniature Fibonacci poem five years ago on the gigantic subject of humanity’s ideas of the Universe and religion – well, there’s no need for humility if you’re writing a…
A perfect summer evening for a less than perfect production of Mozart’sMarriage of Figaro at Glyndebourne.
Le Nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne, 2016. It was a lovely day for a wedding. Yesterday Glyndebourne Opera house looked at its most seductive on a hot golden day…
The Last Brexiter exits – what a load of wallies!
Exited BREXITER Andrea Leadsom stands down from the Conservative leadership election. So there they all go! Whoops. After the Leave campaign in Britain’s EU Referendum claimed victory, it all looked like celebration…
Ho-ho-ho! Britain has got its sovereignty back and it’s all going to bedemocratic again. Or will it?
David Cameron and his wife, Sam, celebrating their narrow victory. It all seems such a long time ago doesn’t it. Dave and Sam Cameron getting one of the biggest shocks…
Me, Marc Bolan and David Bowie – meeting again in The Fib Review.
David Bowie and Marc Bolan in rehearsal at Granada Television in 1977. In the early years of my TV career at one of Britain’s leading independent television companies, Granada, I…
What should we BREXIT from next?
Horrified grenadier guard hears the EU Referendum result. So now that Britain has caught the Referendum habit and voted to leave the European Union, what next? Shock horror is still taking…
Little England let the dogs out.
I’m sorry fellow Europeans, I voted remain as did many other people here in Britain, please lets strive to remain friends. The country has voted and the result is official. The United…
Are You In Or Out? I Know What I Think
I’ve been tempted to stay silent through the EU Referendum campaign here in the United Kingdom assuming, after last year’s depressing General Election result when 26% of the electorate voted…
How the movie Whiplash inspired my New Year’s Resolution about how I was going to write my two new Brighton novels.
I’m sorry everyone, if you’ve been looking for my regular blogs. I’ve been busy all year on my novel-writing activities and decided to give the blogs a rest. Today though, yay,…
Ray Fitzwalter, World In Action editor and Granada Television legend has died.
Ray Fitzwalter, editor of Granada Television’s pioneering current affairs series, World In Action. It definitely felt like the passing of an era, hearing about Ray Fitzwalter’s death. He was a truly…
Photography – at first it was just taking pictures, then I went digital and now I discover Instagram.
I have lived long enough now to have seen a transformation in the art of photography. Not that I’d call myself a photographer, but I been taking photographs since I was…
The Legend of The Flying Dutchman miniaturised as one of my latest Fibonacci poems.
Today I’m celebrating the publication of two more of my Fibonacci poems, Castle Walk and The Flying Dutchman, in that great specialist Fibonacci journal, The Fib Review which is…
Silent House – first a poem, now a movie.
My thanks are due to the multi-talented Joseph Nussbaum for his film, so carefully made, of my poem Silent House. It was a great experience sharing brains with such a perceptive director.…
I remember David Bowie – formative influence, genius and a man whom I met once in an unexpected place.
David Bowie (1947 – 2016) I was truly amazed when I first came across an album by this man with the proudly flaunted chicken-chest and daringly challenging face makeup. I had,…
I have reached the end of my 18 year musical journey – a special way to celebrate Christmas.
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) As some of you may know, I have been on a musical journey over the last eighteen years. I have been working my way through…
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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