Bio

Colin Bell's novel, Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love, will be published in 2013 (Ward Wood Publishing). He has worked as a producer/director and executive producer of arts programmes for British, American, Japanese and European broadcasters.He has published short stories, children's stories, articles, film reviews in Ether Books, Novello Publishing, Mansized, and poetry in the UK and the USA by The Blotter, Cinnamon Press, Lumen Camden Poetry, Bittersweet, Prism, Every Day Poets, Shot Glass Journal and the Fib Review. He lives in Lewes, England and writes a daily blog as wolfiewolfgang on his website http://www.wolfiewolfgang.com.

I
hide
behind
politesse –
my éminence grise –
muffling internal explosions,
keeping the peace maintaining our entente cordiale.
You defuse my ammunition
with diplomacy.
Etiquette,
you say,
is
nuts.