Bio
Television producer-director Colin Bell's debut poetry collection Remembering Blue was published in
2019 by Ward Wood Publishing. His second poetry collection, Brief Encounters - 100 Fibs, featuring the
poems first published in The Fib Review, is scheduled to be published by Ward Wood Publishing.
His two published novels are Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love (Ward Wood Publishing, 2013) longlisted
for the Polari Prize 2014. Blue Notes, Still Frames, (Ward Wood Publishing, 2016). His third novel,
Over the Hills is a Long Way Off, will also be published by Ward Wood. A fourth novel is now in its final draft.
His poetry has been published by Cinnamon Press, Frogmore Press, Shot Glass Journal, Soaring Penguin Press,
The Fib Review, and a number of anthologies in the US and UK. Several of his fibs have been set to music
as the song cycle, Fibonacci Poems (2017) for tenor voice and piano by American composer Tim Risher.
In 2020 he was made Musepie Press' Featured International Poet and his Fibonacci poetry has been twice
nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Colin Bell
To the distant beloved
Peeling apples is dangerous
fingers find my spine
breath on my neck guides the knife and
I bleed.
On a mid-afternoon train
an empty seat isn't empty
I'm crushed thigh to thigh
my own private rush hour.
This is an invasion an ambush
out there far away you have an alibi
I'm here by myself never alone
warming my feet by an unlit fire.