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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 his new book 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. Oscillating between trenchant satire and touching honesty, often poignant autobiography spiced with gentle humour, Bell presents poems on Tony Blair and Iraq, on Radovan Karadzic, the Serbian war criminal whom he met on trial in the Hague, on his hero, Reuters reporter Kurt Schork, killed on assignment in Sierra Leone, and colourful episodes from his work and life, from the chart-topping calypso written about him in St Lucia to his being a guest at Idi Amin's wedding: ' - that by God / Was well worth doing, if distinctly odd.' Topical, timely - the book will include poems on key events in 2011 - and with Martin's irrepressible guiding voice, For Whom the Bell Tolls will be the perfect fireside companion this Christmas, from the man convinced that 'life begins at three score years and ten.'
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Martin Bell OBE is one of the best-known and most highly regarded names in British television journalism. In 1997 Martin became the first Independent MP to be elected to Parliament since 1950. His most recent book was A Very British Revolution (Icon, 2009)
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A man I much admire and wish to share his enemies though I am about to become one. I do not rate his poetry.
Format:Kindle Edition
Witty, pithy, informed commentary on 21st century idiocy. Poetry for both non-poetry reader and dedicated poetry fan. Martin Bell knows what he is writing about, and does it well.
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A lot of good verse and lot where he is straining . I particulary liked the Prime Ministerial visit to Afghanistan and the one on Blair. OK as a small present - has gone down well at a local bookshare group where peopl borrow to read and pay a small sum to charity to do that. Not a book to keep
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