The talented line-up of queer poets moved the sold-out audience from laughter to tears.
“Bella Cox’s (@bellacoxpoet) sensual piece on lesbian sex had everyone suspended on their every word.”
To mark the launch of the Barbican’s new exhibition ‘Modern Couples’, eight Londoners tell real-life modern love stories set in the city.
Lavender in London
By Bella Cox, a Barbican Young Poet living in east London
“I’ve never had a girl bring flowers to a date before” …[cont.]
TIME OUT London, 2018
REVIEW: A CHANGE IS GONNA COME, BARBICAN
"All poets speak with a very distinctive voice. Particularly impressive is Bella Cox, with her vividly physical accounts of commuting, love, and family relationships. In her work, poetry truly becomes one with life, and words and gestures fuse into a single means of communication.” - Anna Zanetti
REVIEWS & ARTICLES
COVER
RAIN DOVE TAKES US ON A JOURNEY THROUGH MODELLING AND BODY ECSTASY
interviewed by Bella Cox
GALLERY
Headline at Sundowners Durban, SA. 2016
Aespia Festival, 2017
Hosting SPEAK=, 2018
Bi Pride UK, 2019
Competing at Genesis Slam, London 2017
Photo by Kojo Stein, 2019
Lee Krasner exhibition performance at the Barbican, 2019.
Heard Collective at H Club Covent Garden, 2019
Mother Wolf Club, using loop pedal, 2021
Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival 2022
BiPride UK, 2022
Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival, 2022
The Big Queer Poetry Show, 2022