Bio

Television producer-director Colin Bell's poetry collection, Remembering Blue (2019) and his novels, Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love (2013)and Blue Notes, Still Frames (2016) are published by Ward Wood Publishing. His third novel, Blue Notes, Still Frames, will also be published by Ward Wood. 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. A Producer-director of arts documentaries and then Executive Producer, Music and Arts, he has made arts programmes for ITV, BBC, Channel Four, and for broadcasters in the USA (WNET and Disney), in Japan (NHK) and Germany (WDR).

"St Francis of Assisi" by Cimabue (1240 - 1302) (from the Porziuncola Museum, Assisi).
The Exhibition St Francis between Cimabue and Perugino was at the Sala Capitolare of the Palazzo della Minerva, Rome 11 December 2024 - 2 March 2025