Henry Bell (writer)
Henry Bell (born 1989) is a writer and editor based in Glasgow. He is a poet,[1][2] author of socialist history,[3] and as editor of Gutter Magazine.[4][5]
Early life
Bell was born in Bristol in 1989, he settled in Scotland in 2008.[6]
Career
While at the University of Glasgow in 2011 Bell began working with Liz Lochhead, William Letford and Lorna MacBean on a project to bring Palestinian poets to Scotland and Scottish poets to Palestine.[7] The readings in both countries resulted in the multilingual collection A Bird is Not a Stone (2014), edited by Henry Bell and Sarah Irving, it was the first anthology of Palestinian poetry in English.
Since 2014 Bell has been a member of the workers cooperative that produces Gutter Magazine, Scotland's magazine of new writing.[8]
Work for theatre has included Between The Speech Bubble and the Thinks Balloon, performed at the Oran Mor in 2014[9] and Lifted, with his co-writer Sara Shaarawi, which appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2015 and 2016.[10] Other projects include a Cairene adaptation of Alasdair Gray's 1982, Janine with Sara Shaarawi. The play Haneen had a rehearsed reading in Egypt.[11]
As a producer Bell is known for his work with festivals and events including Fail Better, Solas, and Chill Habibi, a nightly cabaret at Arab Arts Focus,[12] the largest Arab Arts Festival to come to the Edinburgh Fringe.[13] He is a founder member of The Workers Theatre,[14] and produced Megaphone, a crowdfunded residency for artists of colour in Scotland.[15]
In 2017 Bell was ranked 43rd in The List Hot 100 cultural Scots.[16]
His biography of the communist organiser John Maclean: Hero of Red Clydeside was published by Pluto Press in 2018.[17][18]
Bell is the recipient of a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust.[19]
His debut poetry pamphlet The Last Lochan was published by Speculative Books in 2020. A follow up, The Inner Circle, came out with Stewed Rhubarb in 2022.[20]
His collaboration documenting the 2020 Covid Pandemic with the photographer Angela Catlin was described by the Morning Star as 'a celebration of the way collective life defiantly continued behind closed doors, masks and social distancing.' [21]
Personal life
Bell lives in Glasgow, Scotland.[22] He is on the founding committee of the Red Sunday School.[23][24]
References
- ↑ Waddell, Laura (30 March 2022). "Glasgow in Lockdown". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "New Writer 2019: Henry Bell". Scottish Book Trust. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ McNicol, Jean (2019-12-22). "The Atmosphere of the Clyde". London Review of Books. 42 (1). ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "Feature: Kate MacLeary, editor of Scottish biannual journal Gutter, reflects on ten years in print". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "United and Divided: Bell and Catlin". The Herald Magazine. March 19, 2022. pp. 13–19. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ↑ "Henry Bell". Bella Caledonia. 2018-07-31. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
- ↑ "Found in translation: poems from Palestine via Scotland". Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "Feature: Kate MacLeary, editor of Scottish biannual journal Gutter, reflects on ten years in print". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "Reviews: Theatre". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "Lifted | The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "From Janine to Haneen". TLS. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "Notes on Contributors". Scottish Literary Review. 13 (1): 121–123. 2021. ISSN 2050-6678.
- ↑ "Edinburgh Festival, review, Chill Habibi: A great evening's entertainment". The Independent. 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "Workers Theatre on Something Has to Happen Festival: The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "Megaphone project launches to promote black artists in Scotland". The Stage. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "The Hot 100 2017: 50–41". The List. 2017-11-01. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
- ↑ "Henry Bell – John Maclean: Hero Of Red Clydeside". The List. 2018-11-07. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ McNicol, Jean (2019-12-22). "The Atmosphere of the Clyde". London Review of Books. 42 (1). ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "New Writer 2019: Henry Bell". Scottish Book Trust. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "A-May-zing things are happening". Push the Boat Out Festival. 2021-05-03. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "Singing about the dark times". Morning Star. 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-29.
- ↑ "Socialists Took Down the British Empire". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ "Red Sunday School". Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ↑ O'Neill, Christina (2022-04-17). "Glasgow's first socialist Sunday school in decades opens for children". GlasgowLive. Retrieved 2022-06-29.
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