Invitation to the Voyage: Selected Poems of Peter Marshall Bell

Twenty-one poems encompass anguish and despair, irony, humor, love and tenderness.

From a review by Jack A Urquhart: Bell wrote the collection’s final poem a mere six weeks before his death. Entitled “Silent Vigil” (by the editor; several of Bell’s poems were untitled), the poem is steeped in the traditions of romanticism. I count it the most moving and the most transcendent of the lot. As a writer, I like to think that the reason the poem resonates is that it leapfrogs grim reality—the cold...