Our Artists

Fiona Benson FRSL is the author of four poetry collections: Bright Travellers, Vertigo & Ghost, Ephemeron and, most recently, Midden Witch. All three of her first published collections were shortlisted for the T S Eliot prize, and her books have won the Forward Prize, the Seamus Heaney Prize, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her script Infamous Offspring written for the Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus / Ultima Vez has been performed across Europe and in the US. She has also edited two books of Ukrainian war poetry in translation – We Were Here by Artur Dron (2024) and Dasein: In Defence of Presence by Yaryna Chornohuz (2025). She lives in mid-Devon with her husband and their two daughters.

Fiona will be performing at Wild Women: Women Speak Volumes with Fiona Benson on Sunday 19th of April.

The Poet Beanz is a socially engaged performance poet with a background in photojournalism, film making, music and sound. Musical references, interpolation, imagery and the audible underpinning everything from the deeply personal to the ludicrous, historic and profane. Imagine John Cooper Clarke, T.S Eliot, and Pam Ayres all falling down the same flight of stairs. 

Beanz will be performing at WORD of Plymouth on Sunday 12th of April.

Thom Boulton was Plymouth Poet Laureate 2016-2020. Once described as ‘approachable and youngish’. He’s written and published three collections of poetry: Prima Materia (2018), Gebo (2021) and The Lesser Key (2026).

Thom will be performing at Between City and Sea on Friday 10th of April.

John Wedgwood Clarke is from West Cornwall. He has published three collections of poems, Ghost Pot, Landfill and Boy Thing and a number of pamphlets, including Red River: At the Mouth, with artwork by Naomi Frears. You can find out more about John's Red River project at www.redriverpoetry.com. As Professor of Poetry at the University of Exeter, he leads on poetry's animation of interdisciplinary research, most recently for RENEW, a five-year NERC-funded project to renew biodiversity.   

John will be performing at Modern Cornish Poetics: Celebrating and Interrogating the Poetry of Contemporary Cornwall on Sunday 12th of April.

Dr Rosemarie Corlett is a bilingual author and lecturer in English and Creative Writing. A versatile professional writer, lecturer and project coordinator, Rosemarie was Plymouth's Poet Laureate 2023-2025. Her collection Flightless Bird was released in 2022 with Shearsman Books, and her work has been published with several presses including Guardian Faber, Poetry Wales, Tears in the Fence and Iota. She works extensively in the community. Recent engagements include The Racial Equality Council, Plymouth Sound National Marine Park, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Children's University and The Box Museum and Gallery. She lives in a converted brewery mews in Plymouth with her daughter, Ella, and their cats, Marmite and Rhubarb.

Rosemary will be co-facilitating the Writing in Sound: Connection to Sea workshop on Saturday 11th of April.

Lesley Curwen is a poet, broadcaster and sailor from Plymouth. She had two pamphlets published in 2024 from Hedgehog Poetry Press and Hybrid Dreich. Her poems have been nominated for Forward and Pushcart Prizes. She has collaborated with Stephen Paul Wren on a poetry book about microplastics which was published by Atomic Bohemian in December.

Lesley will be performing at Between City and Sea on Friday 10th of April.

Leo Dragstedt is a host and organiser of the Tell it to the Music poetry and music fusion night. He is a former host of the Grizzly Pear poetry night, onetime unislam competitor and coach of the University of Birmingham 2026 team. He has headlined and collaborated with nights across Birmingham and was even commissioned by the Birmingham Festival 2023. You can find Leo's poetry in the These Are the Hands Anthology, Eponym Magazine, and any microphone he can get his hands on.

Leo will be performing at Dancing to Music You Hate X Tell It To The Music on Saturday 18th of April.

Lizzie Elliot-Klein is a poet, nature connection guide, and mama rooted in Plymouth, UK. Fourteen years ago, she was called by the sea to move to the city to study marine biology, specialising in rocky shore creatures and seaweeds.

Her poetry is inspired by nature, matrescence, the wild edges and our intimate relationships with the more-than-human world.

Lizzie’s work has been published in Motherlore Magazine, The Jawbone Journal, The Universes Poetry Press, Apricot Press and as part of the City Layers 2025 project. Her debut pamphlet, Love Songs for the Unloved Beings, was released in October 2025.

She currently runs nature-based creative writing workshops through SeaWyld and works as a creative facilitator for community groups in the City.

Lizzie will be co-facilitating the Writing in Nature workshop on Friday 17th of April.

Henry Everett is an performance storyteller, author, artist and poet. Henry tells stories for all ages across the country (Crick Crack Club), had a sold out run at Brighton Fringe (2025), and can be found at festivals, schools, art centres and woodlands. He is the author of ‘Pixie Folk Tales’ a collection of 50 rascular traditional folk tales of the infamous magical characters (Illustrated by David Wyatt, published by The History Press 2025). He also co runs South Devon Storytellers. Henry lives on Dartmoor with his cat, Pooka.

Henry will be co-facilitating the Storytelling Though Poetry workshop on Monday 13th of April.

Mélisande Fitzsimons is a French poet, translator and workshop facilitator based in Plymouth, UK. She has a background in Fine Arts and translation and writes in French and in English and has published four collections of poetry: A Language of Spies, Sirène, Life Here is Full of Tomorrows, and The Only Country in the World. Her work has appeared in international magazines, and she is currently working on her fifth collection, with Aquifer (UK). 

Mélisande will be performing at WonderZoo Presents: Four Women Writers of Plymouth on Thursday 16th of April and at Pyre: The Mother Tongue Showcase on Friday 17th of April.

Maria Ferguson is a writer and performer. Her poetry has been widely anthologised and published in literary magazines such as Magma, The Rialto, The North and The Poetry Review. She was a finalist of the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024 and her debut collection, Alright, Girl? (Burning Eye, 2020), was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. On the stage, her one-woman show Fat Girls Don’t Dance (Oberon, 2017) won the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Show; Essex Girl (Oberon, 2019) was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award and won Show of the Week at VAULT Festival. She has been commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts, Stylist magazine, The Bronte Parsonage and BBC Radio. Her work has been featured in The Guardian and on Radio 4’s The Verb and Woman’s Hour. She is the Associate Producer of LIVEwire Poetry and teaches creative writing in a variety of settings. Her second poetry collection, Swell was published in 2025 by Penguin Random House.

Maria is our poet-in-residence for the festival, and will be performing at WORD of Plymouth on Sunday 12th of April.

Jonny Fluffypunk is a stand-up poet, lo-fi theatremaker and self-made underachiever who’s been dragging his art around the UK for over 25 years, fusing bittersweet autobiography, disillusionment and wonder into an act that has established him as a firm favourite at gigs, festivals and housing benefit offices everywhere.

“Acute social observation, intricate humour, surreal fantasy, sharp irony and wit… and England’s most pretentious moustache.” – The Independent

Jonny will be performing at Spork: A Momus On The Lips at Cafe Momus on Saturday 11th of April.

Ella Frears is a poet and artist originally from Cornwall, now based in London. Her debut collection,  Shine, Darling,  (Corsair, 2020) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.   Goodlord  (Rough Trade Books & Corsair 2024), a hybrid work which takes the form of one long email to an estate agent, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Sky Arts Award for Times Breakthrough Artist of the Year. Ella is this year’s Poetry Fellow at UEA.

Ella will be performing at at Modern Cornish Poetics: Celebrating and Interrogating the Poetry of Contemporary Cornwall on Sunday 12th of April.

Jasmine Gardosi is the former Birmingham Poet Laureate 2022-24. They are a multiple slam champion, beatboxer, and Honorary Doctor of Letters (Birmingham Newman University). They are a winner of the Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry and winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Performer.

Their work exploring identity, LGBTQ+ issues and mental health has appeared on Button Poetry, at the Tate Modern, Glastonbury Festival and across BBC Radio, including BBC Radio 3's The Verb, Radio 4 and BBC Asian Network. They were featured on Sky Arts' BAFTA-winning show Life & Rhymes alongside Benjamin Zephaniah, and their poem about the pandemic, filmed on a rollercoaster, was broadcast across America on PBS after going viral on Twitter. Their performance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall was broadcast on BBC Four. Their debut pamphlet Hurtz is published by Verve Poetry Press.

Jasmine will be performing at Dancing to Music You Hate X Tell It To The Music on Saturday 18th of April.

Casey Garfield is a nonbinary poet, occasional publisher, and devoted pal. Their work has been featured in publications including McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and Maudlin House, events such as Wild Paths Festival and Polari Literary Salon, and workshops facilitated for the NHS Wellbeing Service. Their most recent chapbook, ‘stories in which’, is currently available through Salo Press, with their next pamphlet forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books.

Casey will be performing at (Re)writing the Archive: An Afternoon of Trans Poetics on Sunday 12th of April.

Purdy Giles will be sharing her story of navigating the space between her Punjabi heritage and British nationality. When she ran away from her childhood home to Plymouth in 1979, the food of her homeland became her constant companion — her only cultural frame of reference in a world that felt unfamiliar. It was the golden thread that quietly led her back home: to herself, to her wider community, to her roots in India, and eventually, back to her childhood home. This is a story of joy and sorrow, of belonging and becoming — and of a deep knowing that this was always her story to write.

 
Purdy will be performing at the Wonderzoo Presents: Four Women Writers of Plymouth on Thursday 16th of April.

Freya Gillard is a nineteen-year-old poet from Devon. She was a Top 15 Foyle Young Poet 2023 and has written further for the Poetry Society, most notably for their Bog Talk project. Through the Poetry London Apprenticeship Scheme, Freya was mentored by Pascale Petit, and has since been published with the magazine. She attended the Tower Poetry Summer School 2025, and is part of the poetry cohort of the Arvon Advanced Writing Programme 2025-27. Freya is also developing as a poetry critic, and was one of ten participants in the Young Critics Scheme 2025, run alongside the TS Eliot prize.

Freya will be performing at the Young Poets Takeover on Saturday 18th of April.

Remi Graves is a poet and drummer. A former Barbican Young Poet, their work has been commissioned by St Paul's Cathedral, Arthouse Jersey and BBC Radio 4. They have performed at Tate, Cheltenham Literature festival and more. Remi has led courses at The Poetry School and facilitates in schools and community spaces across London and the South East. Remi’s debut pamphlet with your chest (2022) was published by fourteen poems. They have been selected for residencies with Jan Michalski Foundation and La Napoule Foundation/La Maison Baldwin. Remi is the winner of 2024 Prototype Prize (short form category), coal was published by Monitor Books in 2025.

Remi will be performing at (Re)writing the Archive: An Afternoon of Trans Poetics on Sunday 12th of April.

Nafeesa Hamid is a Brum-Kashmiri writer; educator; performer; director. When she’s not archiving city council bankruptcy, Nafeesa uses a multidisciplinary approach to her creative practice. Her debut poetry collection, Besharam, was highly commended in the Forward Prizes 2018. Nafeesa is published in Forward Poems of the Decade 2011-2020, among other publications. She's appeared on BBC Bitesize, BBC Radio 4 Comedy, The Verb & international literary festivals. Nafeesa received a scholarship for an MA in Writing Poetry at Poetry School London 2023-2025. Nafeesa continues to develop a body of work exploring corner shop culture, car boots, faith, divine love, and female health. She continues to learn ways to incorporate film, bansuri, printing techniques, and puppetry into her poetic practice. She is currently a resident artist at Vivid Projects, Birmingham, archiving film and video materials.

Nafeesa will be performing at Belonging and Becoming: A Celebration of South Asian Women's Voices on Sunday 19th April.

Shagufta Iqbal’s debut poetry collection Jam Is For Girls, Girls Get Jam (Burning Eye Books) was described by gal-dem as “heart-wrenching and relatable”, and praised by Nikesh Shukla as “a socio-political masterclass”. Her children’s book Bibi and Rumi (HarperCollins) is a warm, joyful story that celebrates wonder, connection and cultural heritage.

Shagufta’s writing has been featured in a wide range of anthologies, including Slam: You’re Gonna Wanna Hear This (Macmillan), Spin! (Otter-Barry Books), The Book of Bristol (Comma Press) and The Best Poetry Book in the World (Burning Eye Books). She is currently working on her second poetry collection, a debut novel and a children’s poetry collection with Troika Books.

Shagufta will be performing at Belonging and Becoming: A Celebration of South Asian Women's Voices on Sunday 19th April.

Vato Klemera is an award-winning composer, pianist, and improviser from Birmingham. Since graduating the University of Birmingham in 2021, Vato has been an active presence in the Birmingham scene. Vato frequently collaborates with musicians, poets and artists, bridging mediums alongside working as a session musician. Vato recently graduated from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, having studied a master's in composition. His work blends Jazz, folk, and experimental electronics, with a philosophy of improvising with tradition to critically examine lineage and facilitate the unusual.

Vato will be performing at Dancing to Music You Hate X Tell It To The Music on Saturday 18th of April.

Kenny Knight's work has appeared  in In the Presence of Sharks — New Poetry from Plymouth (Phlebas Press), Fire, The International Times, Litter, Smith's Knoll, The Rialto, Tears in the Fence and Terrible Work, as well as Ten Poems About Tea (Candlestick Press), in which he shared the pages with the likes of Thomas Hardy. His collections, The Honicknowle Book of the Dead, A Long Weekend on the Sofa, Love Letter to an Imaginary Girlfriend and Ghost Town Street were published by Shearsman Books.

Kenny will be performing at Between City and Sea on Friday 10th of April.

Kate Kreke is from the South Side of Chicago but lives in the South Hams. After completing her honours degree in Liberal Arts from Columbia College Chicago, she moved to the UK to pursue her master’s in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. Kate uses poetry as her gateway drug to return to writing. She has been published in The Amphibian and in a vending machine, performed alongside Ella Frears, and had poems on the radio. She is working to publish her first novel.

Kate will be performing at Writing Across Borders: The Poetry of Time and Place on Saturday 11th of April.

Lucy Lepchani is a poet from Devon who has two published collections of poetry, is currently writing eco-fiction and with a third poetry collection in gradual progress. She also works to develop others’ work for performance, publication and broadcast. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Plymouth.

Lucy will be performing at Between City and Sea on Friday 10th of April.

Kat Lyons (they/them) is a socially engaged Queer writer, performer, workshop facilitator and creative producer. They held the role of Bristol City Poet from 2022-24, have been published in journals including Bath Magg and Under the Radar, and their poetry collection Love Beneath the Nails is available from Verve Poetry Press. Kat performs regularly across the UK, with Dry Season - their spoken word solo show exploring menopause - touring theatres from 2022-23. Kat writes for commission, hosts and produces poetry events, and facilitates creative writing workshops for people of all ages. Kat lives at the foot of the Mendips, where they spend a lot of time poking around in the undergrowth looking for fungi. They are interested in how stories connect us to our world and each other, and in artistic and interdisciplinary collaborations of all kinds. They believe everyone has a story to tell, and a voice worth hearing.

Kat will be performing at Spork: A Momus on the Lips on Saturday 11th of April.

Cia Mangat is the Education Coordinator at The Poetry Society. She runs Young Poets Network, the Young Critics Scheme, and the Poets in Schools service, among other education projects.

Cia will be performing at the Young Poets Takeover on Saturday 18th of April.

Ellen McPetrie is a poet who has a lot of feelings. They write about them and respond to them, sometimes in the same line. In 2023 they wrote a little poetry book to talk about their feelings, and in 2025 they were a Foyle Young Poet. Now Ellen is studying a pre degree arts course, and so mostly spends a lot of time covered in paint.

Ellen will be performing at the Young Poets Takeover on Saturday 18th of April.

Maile Mia Heart is an emerging talent within Plymouth's vibrant art and writing communities. Her work delves deeply into the interpretations of life and everything within it, capturing the unique depths that each individual possesses. She celebrates the diverse ways we all shine, emphasizing that love remains universal regardless of our differences. Her writing seeks to uncover truths both in our world and beyond, exploring what it truly means to be a Woman artist. Through her art and words, Maile aims to foster confidence and esteem among women to all helping them discover hidden strengths. Her focus is on creating meaningful connections with the inner self and embracing the dance that guides our life's journey, inspiring others to find their authentic rhythm and voice.

Maile will be performing at Wonderzoo Presents: Four Women Poets of Plymouth on Thursday 16th of April.

Laurie Page is a Plymouth-based poet and writer whose work explores experiences of land, gender, and language in a shifting time. She has a background in music, frequently harnessing the melodic and rhythmical in her writing. She began writing poetry over a decade ago and has since performed at numerous literary events, showcases, and open mics. Her first poetry collection, The Colour of Thunder, was published in 2024 by The Jawbone Collective. She is a second-year English and Creative Writing student at the University of Plymouth. Laurie's short fiction won both the 2025 Charlotte Fox Short Story Prize and the 2025 Appledore Literary Festival Prize. She is the joint organiser of Pyre Events.

Laurie will be performing at (Re)writing the Archive: An Afternoon of Trans Poetics on Sunday 12th of April.

Ali Shair is a flautist and committed student of raag-based music, training under the guidance of Ustad Hanif Khan, a distinguished bansuri maestro from Lahore, Pakistan. His practice is rooted in the traditions of raag while also engaging in contemporary collaborations. Alongside his musical journey, Ali is a Fellow at the University of Sussex, conducting ethnographic research on British-Pakistani and British-Muslim soundscapes and the cultural politics of musical heritage.

Ali will be performing at A Celebration of South Asian Women's Voices on Sunday 19th April.

Taran Spalding-Jenkin is a native Kernewek speaking poet, performer and translator. Their work explores the spaces between identities, disability, queerness, and hireth – the longing for a lost home or one which has never existed. Taran has been awarded the Awen medal for creativity and in 2024 became a bard of Gorsedh Kernow for their contributions to Cornish poetry. Their debut pamphlet Health Hireth is out now with Broken Sleep Books.

Taran will be performing at at Modern Cornish Poetics: Celebrating and Interrogating the Poetry of Contemporary Cornwall on Sunday 12th of April.

Lorna Stubbs grew up in Scotland’s central belt, in a close-knit working-class mining community. She earned a BA (Hons) in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Exeter at forty, and completed a Master’s in Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth two decades later, graduating with distinction. Her poetry was recently featured in Plymouth’s City Layers exhibition in the town centre.

Lorna will be performing at Between City and Sea on Friday 10th of April.

Ed Tapper is a poet with a keen ear for the spoken word. He’s a familiar face on the Plymouth poetry scene and has had work published in Republic Magazine, Lay of the Land, Clutter and Dung Heap Cockerel. Ed’s new book about Life Drawing ‘A Pattern of Looks’ from Stoat Books is out soon and his third collection of poetry ‘A Pocket for the Fist of Empire’ will be published this year.

Ed will be performing at Writing Across Borders: The Poetry of Time and Place on Saturday 11th of April.

Jackie Taylor lives in Cornwall and writes short fiction, poetry and hybrid work, with interests including rural edgelands, ageing and care, and approaches to writing environmental crises. Her writing has appeared most recently in Mslexia, Cornwall in Short (Inkfish Press) and Spelt. Strange Waters, a collection of interlinked short stories, was published by Arachne Press in 2021. Jackie holds an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University  of Glasgow  and is a member of the 2025/26 Word Space writer development programme for new voices from the South West.

Jackie will be performing at Wild Women: Women Speak Volumes with Fiona Benson on Sunday 19th of April.

R.C. Thomas lives in Plymouth. He has four books of poetry: The Strangest Thankyou (Cultured Llama, 2012), Zygote Poems (Cultured Llama, 2015), Faunistics: A Collection of Wild Haiku and Illustrations (2024), and Infinity Strings (with Hifsa Ashraf, 2025). His poems have been published in online and print journals internationally including Frogpond, Gutter, Modern Haiku, Orbis, Poetry Salzberg Review and Tears in the Fence. He’s Plymouth Laureate of Words 2025-27.

R.C. will be performing at Between City and Sea on Friday 10th of April.

Helen Thomas is a poet of Sierra Leonean and Irish heritage. She was born in London, has four children and has lived in Cornwall for 25 years. She loves swimming in the sea, researching black British history, yoga & velvet.

Helen will be performing at Wild Women: Women Speak Volumes with Fiona Benson on Sunday 19th of April.

Edward Tripp is an award winning Northern Irish comedian, poet and former Bard of Exeter. Known for props, music and the occassional theatrical effect, Edward has brought his unique brand of spoken word poetry to comedy nights, festivals and spoken word events all over the UK. Edward Tripp also received the perilous accolade of being the only UK City Bard to hold a poetry ‘anti-slam’ title at the same time as his Bardship. This means that Edward was recognized as the best and worst poet in the Southwest of England simultaneously. 

"Seek Edward out like buried treasure" - Spencer Jones, Comedian and Actor 

Ed will be performing at Spork: A Momus On The Lips on Saturday 11th of April.

Charlotte Turner is a writer, arts organiser and communications professional based on the Rame Peninsula in Cornwall. She helps to run the creative complex Patchwork Studios at Maker Heights, where she champions welcoming, community-focused cultural events.

Seven years ago, she founded WORD, a poetry and spoken word night that has since attracted performers from across the South West to share their work in an intimate, supportive setting. Under her stewardship, WORD has grown into a much-loved platform for both emerging and established voices.

A former ITV and newspaper journalist, Charlotte now runs the press office for a major brewery. She holds a degree in Creative Writing and serves as a director for the British Guild of Beer Writers. Alongside her professional roles, she is an avid poet, using the medium to chronicle life’s harder moments with unflinching honesty; from grief and her own experience of cancer to the powerful stories she encountered as a health reporter.

Charlotte will be performing at The Maker Poet Takeover on Saturday 18th April.

Deeksha Verender is a Devon-based writer and performer, who draws from her lived experience to interrogate ideas of race, belonging, and the relational dynamics that shape our interior worlds. She has received commissions from organisations including English Touring Opera, and her writing has been published in The Bangalore Review and The Alipore Post, among others.

Deeksha will be performing at A Celebration of South Asian Women's Voices on Sunday 19th April.

Jackie Wacha was born in Uganda during a time of political turmoil and upheaval. She read Law at Makerere University, and went on to study Human Rights at London Metropolitan University. Jackie is poet who writes about climate change, politics and social justice, interspersed with humorous observations. 

Jackie is a Human Rights lawyer by profession and worked on WonderZoo's Hidden Figures of Plymouth project, her poetry has featured in several publications. She is the author of 'Wild Rats', a story about the plight of street children in Uganda.

Jackie will be performing at WonderZoo Presents: Four Women Writers of Plymouth on Thursday 16th of April and at Pyre: The Mother Tongue Showcase on Friday 17th of April.

Megan Wheeler is a full time English and Creative Writing student at the University of Exeter, with an aim to create a career out of her passion. 

Prior to poetry, Megan firstly remembers her love of stories in the way her mum read her Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne and the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis; she remembers stories in her dad’s great belly laugh accounts of growing up in the wilds of Tennessee, escaping wild boars and sliding down waterfalls; she remembers stories in every book she wanted to devour, and her dread to finish the last page.

Megan’s constant has always been stories. It was through this that Megan found a great love for all things writing, and especially, the intimate and tender stories we tell through poetry. Megan now lives in Plymouth, and finds inspiration for her poems through her journey with mental health, righteous feminism, and the rapture of nature. She runs Word of Plymouth: Spoken Word Open Mic at the Bread and Roses.

Megan will be performing at WORD of Plymouth on Sunday 12th of April.

Belinda Zhawi (b. Zimbabwe) is a literary & sound artist based in London (UK) & Marseille (FR), author of Small Inheritances (ignitionpress, 2018), & experiments with sound/text performance as MA.MOYO. She heavily collaborates with musicians in the ever growing South East London jazz and beat-making scene - mainly with harpist Marysia Osu. Belinda’s work explores African diaspora research and narratives, and how art and education can be used as intersectional tools. Her literary & sound works have been featured on various platforms including The White Review, Vogue, NTS, Boiler Room & BBC Radio. She’s held residencies with Triangle-Asterides, France; Cove Park, Scotland; Serpentine Galleries and ICA London. She was a Brixton House Associate Artist 2022 - 24. Her debut album, a collaboration with Duncan Bellamy (Portico Quartet) was released under the moniker BZDB on AD93 Records (November 2024). Her debut solo EP was released by Accidental Meetings (2025) and she’s currently working on her first full collection of poems. Belinda’s the co-founder of literary arts platform, BORN::FREE.

Belinda will be performing at Writing Across Borders: The Poetry of Time and Place on Saturday 11th of April.