Martin Bell OBE has been many things - an icon of BBC war reporting, Britain's first independent MP for 50 years, a UNICEF ambassador, and 'the man in the white suit' - a tireless campaigner for honesty and accountability in politics.
But as For Whom the Bell Tolls reveals, he's also a poet of light verse, and here Bell's poems continue his war by other means on duplicitous politicians, our all-consuming media, the venality of celebrity culture and much more.
Bell presents poems on Tony Blair and Iraq, on Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic, on his hero, Reuters reporter Kurt Schork, and colourful episodes from his work and life, from being starstruck by Angelina Jolie, to a mordant epitaph on Margaret Thatcher, to his being a guest at Idi Amin's wedding:
'. that by God / Was well worth doing, if distinctly odd.'
- ISBN10 1848313047
- ISBN13 9781848313040
- Publish Date 6 October 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 24 May 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Icon Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English