Bell Smetek

Bells Smetek – Bells is an agender creator from Silesia, Poland. They spent a couple of years in Barcelona and now live in Cracow with their partner, three adopted cats, and a dog. They juggle life as an IT worker on the spectrum, raising their home zoo, completing a yoga teacher course, and creating. As a dog behaviourist, they help people better understand their dogs. They read and write prose and poetry in English and Polish. They hope.

Their poetry talks about love, death, sexuality, loneliness, identity as a non-cis-straight person, mental health issues, and the general exploration of one’s differences and similarities to others, one’s weaknesses and strengths. It’s poetry about life, with its violence and its softness, and a recording of one’s road to living with oneself, among people and in one’s own mind. 

They write their poetry in English and translate into Polish. They publish on their social media as @seriobells and are hoping to gather enough resources to be able to publish their works in print some time in the future.