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) long-listed 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 Acumen, 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
Dangerous Meditations
Silence is the warning
cotton sheets crush out sleep
the unspoken rises awakened
I sink underwater
cast-iron taps splutter
voices censored in water pipes
muted screams siphoned underground
a deep-sea diver searcheshiding
the gaping jaw remembered
after the mourners have fled
wordless confessions remain unheard
a cowl-eyed dog licks tears from cold tiles
under a wild cherry tree
where white blossom rains
grass burns my skin
in the breeze birdsongsilent