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James Bell

James Bell is a poet originally from Scotland now living in Devon. His sequence of poems Rumours of Sunlight was the dedicated feature issue for Poetry Scotland. He co-hosts and organises UNCUT poetry in Exeter.


publications:
the just vanished place (to be published in May 08)

Some poets find restrictions strangely liberating and James Bell is one such. He has nine lines to get his message across, no more, no less, and his nine-liners are as liberating for the reader as they obviously were for the poet.
                                                                                                                   Tony Frazer

 

from the just vanished place

1. 

 

there was no bright colour

more stone greys

white for quartz

 

a fascination with order

in ancient stones

rhomboids in inclement weather

 

in other days she would

have been an oracle

a seer

 

2.                                

 

it was not snow - it was            

time to watch snowflakes

and the reactions of faces

through windscreens who

watched with wonder and fear

for what nature had done today

 

snow had slain arrogance

in one frost - one heavy shower

of white for a blank page