Ella Frears
@ellafrears.bsky.social
Poet etc.
Books - Goodlord & Shine, Darling
Hosts Tears for Frears & Stress Test on Soho Radio
RLF Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art
Books - Goodlord & Shine, Darling
Hosts Tears for Frears & Stress Test on Soho Radio
RLF Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art
Pinned
Ella Frears
@ellafrears.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Goodlord: An Email - Ella Frears
**PRE-ORDERS SHIPPING JUNE 2024 Taking the form of one long email addressed to an estate agent, Goodlord is a fictional memoir of habitation, a genre-defying novelistic text that beautifully evokes th...
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Goodlord - out with Rough Trade Books roughtradebooks.com/products/goo...
DO YOU WORK IN THE LONELY OFFICE OF POETRY? It’s time we had a Christmas party. thesocial.seetickets.com/event/the-po...
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
DO YOU WORK IN THE LONELY OFFICE OF POETRY? It’s time we had a Christmas party. thesocial.seetickets.com/event/the-po...
Just reminding you that you do want and need this for your writing 💘 roughtradebooks.com/collections/...
October 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just reminding you that you do want and need this for your writing 💘 roughtradebooks.com/collections/...
Today is National Poetry Day - Jess & I will be taking over the national poetry day instagram 7-9pm answering your questions, reading poems and playing The Poetry Fruit Machine 🎰 🍒🍋💰
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Today is National Poetry Day - Jess & I will be taking over the national poetry day instagram 7-9pm answering your questions, reading poems and playing The Poetry Fruit Machine 🎰 🍒🍋💰
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POETRY FRUIT MACHINE by @ellafrears.bsky.social and #JessicaTodd, illustrated by #HattieStewart is out with #RoughTradeBooks today!
An addictive literary game for the materially broke, spiritual high-roller. 🍒🍋⚓🔔
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An addictive literary game for the materially broke, spiritual high-roller. 🍒🍋⚓🔔
roughtradebooks.com/collections/...
POETRY FRUIT MACHINE - ELLA FREARS & JESSICA TODD
***PRE-ORDERS SHIPPING SEPTEMBER 2025***POETRY FRUIT MACHINE is an addictive literary game for the materially broke, spiritual high-roller. A lucky card deck featuring startlingly original gamified wr...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
POETRY FRUIT MACHINE by @ellafrears.bsky.social and #JessicaTodd, illustrated by #HattieStewart is out with #RoughTradeBooks today!
An addictive literary game for the materially broke, spiritual high-roller. 🍒🍋⚓🔔
roughtradebooks.com/collections/...
An addictive literary game for the materially broke, spiritual high-roller. 🍒🍋⚓🔔
roughtradebooks.com/collections/...
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NEW this month, Rough Trade Books Audio Books. Excited to see 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' here, or should I say hear, haha, check out fantastic RTB audio books including work by @ellafrears.bsky.social and @okwonga.bsky.social and more via Bandcamp: roughtradebooks.bandcamp.com/album/pessim...
PESSIMISM IS FOR LIGHTWEIGHTS: 30 PIECES OF COURAGE AND RESISTANCE // SALENA GODDEN, by Salena Godden
35 track album
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September 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
NEW this month, Rough Trade Books Audio Books. Excited to see 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' here, or should I say hear, haha, check out fantastic RTB audio books including work by @ellafrears.bsky.social and @okwonga.bsky.social and more via Bandcamp: roughtradebooks.bandcamp.com/album/pessim...
GOODLORD the audiobook out now with Rough Trade Books 💫 get it here (or wherever you normally get your audiobooks) roughtradebooks.bandcamp.com/album/goodlo...
August 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
GOODLORD the audiobook out now with Rough Trade Books 💫 get it here (or wherever you normally get your audiobooks) roughtradebooks.bandcamp.com/album/goodlo...
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Tomorrow I’m co tutoring @arvon course at Totleigh with Will Harris, a version of the Lyric Self course we taught at Lumb two years ago. Almost packed my boxes of tricks. it’s one hour by car so the easiest journey of the Arvons. Our guest reader is the divine @ellafrears.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Tomorrow I’m co tutoring @arvon course at Totleigh with Will Harris, a version of the Lyric Self course we taught at Lumb two years ago. Almost packed my boxes of tricks. it’s one hour by car so the easiest journey of the Arvons. Our guest reader is the divine @ellafrears.bsky.social
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The theme is revisiting and remixing the classics and we have online courses from @ellafrears.bsky.social Jilia Copus, and Will Harris asking ‘Canon or Cannon?’
July 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The theme is revisiting and remixing the classics and we have online courses from @ellafrears.bsky.social Jilia Copus, and Will Harris asking ‘Canon or Cannon?’
THE POETRY FRUIT MACHINE
✨out Sept 25 ✨
🍋 54 poetry prompts
🔔54 multiplayer versions for playing with friends/at the pub/in a workshop
🍇 fruit machine symbols that function like a trashy tarot
💰booklet with fun/informative poetry glossary. GET THOSE PREORDERS IN roughtradebooks.com/collections/...
✨out Sept 25 ✨
🍋 54 poetry prompts
🔔54 multiplayer versions for playing with friends/at the pub/in a workshop
🍇 fruit machine symbols that function like a trashy tarot
💰booklet with fun/informative poetry glossary. GET THOSE PREORDERS IN roughtradebooks.com/collections/...
June 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
THE POETRY FRUIT MACHINE
✨out Sept 25 ✨
🍋 54 poetry prompts
🔔54 multiplayer versions for playing with friends/at the pub/in a workshop
🍇 fruit machine symbols that function like a trashy tarot
💰booklet with fun/informative poetry glossary. GET THOSE PREORDERS IN roughtradebooks.com/collections/...
✨out Sept 25 ✨
🍋 54 poetry prompts
🔔54 multiplayer versions for playing with friends/at the pub/in a workshop
🍇 fruit machine symbols that function like a trashy tarot
💰booklet with fun/informative poetry glossary. GET THOSE PREORDERS IN roughtradebooks.com/collections/...
Frank Skinner & I duet my poem ‘phases of the moon / things I have done’ at Launceston Poetry Festival 🌙✨
June 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Frank Skinner & I duet my poem ‘phases of the moon / things I have done’ at Launceston Poetry Festival 🌙✨
Campaign to make my hidden gem a gem 💎 thanks Daily Express
May 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Campaign to make my hidden gem a gem 💎 thanks Daily Express
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SHINE, DARLING, the debut poetry collection by @ellafrears.bsky.social is now out with #Corsair with a new poem and essay, on poetry and process!
‘Fizzing with insistent energy . . . full of crystalline images and metaphors’ - Guardian
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ella-...
‘Fizzing with insistent energy . . . full of crystalline images and metaphors’ - Guardian
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ella-...
May 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
SHINE, DARLING, the debut poetry collection by @ellafrears.bsky.social is now out with #Corsair with a new poem and essay, on poetry and process!
‘Fizzing with insistent energy . . . full of crystalline images and metaphors’ - Guardian
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ella-...
‘Fizzing with insistent energy . . . full of crystalline images and metaphors’ - Guardian
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ella-...
Shine, Darling is being rereleased today! ✨⚡️ this time with Corsair. This new edition features an essay on poetry, (not) driving, and how I write. Get it here www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ella-... buy it for your friends, lovers, enemies
May 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Shine, Darling is being rereleased today! ✨⚡️ this time with Corsair. This new edition features an essay on poetry, (not) driving, and how I write. Get it here www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ella-... buy it for your friends, lovers, enemies
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✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects.
Today's prompt is from Ella Frears, who is published (...)
Today's prompt is from Ella Frears, who is published (...)
April 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects.
Today's prompt is from Ella Frears, who is published (...)
Today's prompt is from Ella Frears, who is published (...)
My moon poem is in the @poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social anthology 🌖✨ a thrill to see it next to the iconic Kim Addonizio
April 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
My moon poem is in the @poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social anthology 🌖✨ a thrill to see it next to the iconic Kim Addonizio
I wrote about how much I love this Judy Grahn poem for the Poetry Review @PoetrySociety. Thanks to editor Wayne for commissioning & shout out Cy who first showed me this poem 💫 video of Grahn reading it here: youtu.be/iUXEljobPEw?... AM I NOT OLDEN OLDEN OLDEN…
April 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I wrote about how much I love this Judy Grahn poem for the Poetry Review @PoetrySociety. Thanks to editor Wayne for commissioning & shout out Cy who first showed me this poem 💫 video of Grahn reading it here: youtu.be/iUXEljobPEw?... AM I NOT OLDEN OLDEN OLDEN…
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It's the UniSlam Grand Finals 2025! 🎉
Join the country's top 4 university teams for a night to remember. With ⚡ electrifying ⚡ performances, featuring host Vanessa Kisuule, and judges Harry Baker, @ellafrears.bsky.social and Late Kid!! 😱
Tickets available here ➡️ buff.ly/pbWQVOk
Join the country's top 4 university teams for a night to remember. With ⚡ electrifying ⚡ performances, featuring host Vanessa Kisuule, and judges Harry Baker, @ellafrears.bsky.social and Late Kid!! 😱
Tickets available here ➡️ buff.ly/pbWQVOk
April 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It's the UniSlam Grand Finals 2025! 🎉
Join the country's top 4 university teams for a night to remember. With ⚡ electrifying ⚡ performances, featuring host Vanessa Kisuule, and judges Harry Baker, @ellafrears.bsky.social and Late Kid!! 😱
Tickets available here ➡️ buff.ly/pbWQVOk
Join the country's top 4 university teams for a night to remember. With ⚡ electrifying ⚡ performances, featuring host Vanessa Kisuule, and judges Harry Baker, @ellafrears.bsky.social and Late Kid!! 😱
Tickets available here ➡️ buff.ly/pbWQVOk
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Everything’s gone green!! Check out of fab new line up poster for the new festival Danny and I have started! A couple of new additions - the wonderful Ella Frears on the Talks Stage and the Modular Cafe are doing a modular synths take over on the Crooked Hut Stage!!
Www.thewake.uk
Www.thewake.uk
April 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Everything’s gone green!! Check out of fab new line up poster for the new festival Danny and I have started! A couple of new additions - the wonderful Ella Frears on the Talks Stage and the Modular Cafe are doing a modular synths take over on the Crooked Hut Stage!!
Www.thewake.uk
Www.thewake.uk
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Catching up on reading and loving this @ellafrears.bsky.social essay on Judy Grahn. A tribal elder gave me the JG reader eight years ago and I’ve been quietly obsessed since. Good punning in this essay as well 👌
April 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Catching up on reading and loving this @ellafrears.bsky.social essay on Judy Grahn. A tribal elder gave me the JG reader eight years ago and I’ve been quietly obsessed since. Good punning in this essay as well 👌
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Check out who is appearing at the causleytrust.org/the-launcest... I am delighted to be running some drop in community sessions and mentoring sessions over the weekend 29 May - 1st June 2025 - Readers include Andrew Motion, Frank Skinner, Pascale Petit, Ella Frears, Katrina Naomi
The Launceston Poetry Festival 2025 - The Charles Causley Trust
Launceston Poetry Festival 2025The Charles Causley Trust is delighted to welcome you to the inaugural Launceston Poetry Festival, a celebration...
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March 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Check out who is appearing at the causleytrust.org/the-launcest... I am delighted to be running some drop in community sessions and mentoring sessions over the weekend 29 May - 1st June 2025 - Readers include Andrew Motion, Frank Skinner, Pascale Petit, Ella Frears, Katrina Naomi
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Which books did I recommend to prospective students at today’s applicant visit day?
March 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Which books did I recommend to prospective students at today’s applicant visit day?
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GOOD LORD by ELLA FREARS an emotional poem/novel that is hard to shake off
March 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
GOOD LORD by ELLA FREARS an emotional poem/novel that is hard to shake off
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What an amazing line up for Launceston Poetry Festival. @pascalepetit.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social @ellafrears.bsky.social and Fiona Benson....need to book some tickets asp
March 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
What an amazing line up for Launceston Poetry Festival. @pascalepetit.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social @ellafrears.bsky.social and Fiona Benson....need to book some tickets asp
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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Just caught up with this wonderful edition of The Verb. Especially enjoyed the reading by the wonderful @ellafrears.bsky.social
The Verb - Reeta Chakrabarti, Fred D'Aguiar, Ella Frears, Edward Wilson-Lee - BBC Sounds
Reeta Chakrabarti, Fred D'Aguiar, Edward Wilson-Lee and Ella Frears.
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February 22, 2025 at 7:06 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Just caught up with this wonderful edition of The Verb. Especially enjoyed the reading by the wonderful @ellafrears.bsky.social