21/03/2025
Since it's World Poetry Day, we'd better showcase our next headliner at Homebrew Poetry next Wednesday... And it's the one and only Bella Cox!
An internationally acclaimed artist, Bella Cox (she/her) is a British Spanish writer, poet, and performer whose poetry centres around relationships and how personal identity influences politics and ways of loving one another. While her proudly q***r, feminist, relationship-fuelled work navigates her own identity, her multicultural upbringing has influenced work that explores the notions of belonging, home, and self-empowerment, making art that reclaims the body as the first home and embraces sensitivities and neurodivergence as tools for self-liberation. Often including a loop pedal in her performances to create layered vocal soundscapes underscoring her poetry, her work has been described as captivating, passionate, and cleverly thought out.
Her debut poetry pamphlet; Sikiliza was published with in 2023. She has performed and shared work at events such as TEDx Pretoria, Sköll World Forum, Bi Pride UK, and the Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival, among many others. Her work has also appeared in numerous anthologies, and she has been commissioned to write for institutions such as the Barbican Centre, HSBC UK, Time Out London and others, as well as Westminster Abbey where she was the Poet In Residence for 2023.
Come catch Bella at the Hillbilly Social next Wednesday! Tix here: http://homebrewpoetry.eventbrite.com/
