Just finished this absolutely amazing, hilarious, angry book. Would absolutely love to teach this @roughtradebooks.bsky.social @ellafrears.bsky.social

Join Martina Evans to celebrate the launch of Drunken Driving in London!🚗 She will be reading from Drunken Driving at Burley Fisher Books on Tuesday 9 June, joined in conversation by Ella Frears. Get tickets here: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/drunk...

Calling all poets! The Independent is teaming up with Camp Bestival for a poetry competition Poet Ella Frears challenges writers to respond to a prompt from her Poetry Fruit Machine – and winners will receive a family weekend ticket and able to take part in a special poetry workshop at The...

I’m moving to Paris in September! 🇫🇷💙

In this ongoing series, we publish an original poem, written in response to a work of contemporary art. This month, poet Ella Frears chose Volcano Snake Sun, September (2024) by Charlie Prodger. Read now: artreview.com/volcano-snak...

Listen here sohoradio.com/show/rough-t...

Today 2-4pm on Soho Radio - TEARS FOR FREARS a @tseliotprize.bsky.social special featuring Nick Makoha & Sarah Howe. Tune in live sohoradio.com

During next week’s Small Press Takeover, we will be joined by the incredible Yanita Georgieva, Ella Frears, Alia Kobuzsko, and Nathanial King! This event series is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30, with readings commencing at 7pm🧡

Reminder: Applications are open for the 2026–27 @malorieblackman.bsky.social Scholarships for Unheard Voices. This is your chance to receive up to £1,000 towards City Lit writing courses. Applications close 8 Feb 2026. @citylitwriting.bsky.social Apply now: www.citylit.ac.uk/malorie-blac...

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/...

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 🎰 🍒🍋💰

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/...

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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...

GOODLORD the audiobook out now with Rough Trade Books 💫 get it here (or wherever you normally get your audiobooks) roughtradebooks.bandcamp.com/album/goodlo...

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

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/...

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

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-...

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

✍️ #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 (...)

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…

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

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

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 👌

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

Which books did I recommend to prospective students at today’s applicant visit day?

GOOD LORD by ELLA FREARS an emotional poem/novel that is hard to shake off

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

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

Book of the day! Goodlord: An Email by Ella Frears 🩷🔑 Ella is our very special guest here tomorrow (Friday) night at the shop, reading for us and in conversation with Will Burns. ‘A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny’ Observer wegottickets.com/event/647993/

🌹 Poetry Reading – Liz Berry, @ellafrears.bsky.social, Charlie Brogan Join Charlie Brogan (MA in Writing Poetry grad) alongside Liz Berry & Ella Frears for an exciting evening of live poetry at Battersea Arts Centre! 📅 Thursday 27 February, 7–9:30 PM (GMT) 🎟️ thewritingschool.co....

Reading w @ellafrears.bsky.social & others at @sohopolypoetry on 7 March. Come thru!!! 🎶✨🎶

Tonight! ✨ tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/goodlord-e...

2025 Longlist for the Republic of Consciousness Small Press Prize, UK & Ireland #booksky #literature #smallpresses #prizes 📚💙

I know. It’s not what you expect from me. Herein, I unearth a poem that's almost a decade old, talk about two of my major tells, and ask you to join me for a week of love and relationships at @arvonfoundation.bsky.social with @ellafrears.bsky.social novelniche.substack.com/p/flank-and-...

Hard recommend

GOODLORD: AN EMAIL by @ellafrears.bsky.social is out today in paperback with Corsair! Shortlisted for the Forward Prize 2024 Sky Arts Award Nominee for Breakthrough Artist of the Year 2024 A Guardian Book of the Year 2024 www.waterstones.com/book/goodlor...

Out in paperback today! 🎉

This is very exciting! Tickets here: www.foyles.co.uk/events/goodl...

Loved being on The Verb yesterday - listen again on BBC sounds 💫 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Amazing book - thank you @ellafrears.bsky.social for these powerful words.

#poetry #books Reeta Chakrabarti, Fred D'Aguiar, Ella Frears, Edward Wilson-Lee The Verb Sun 17:10 BBC Radio 4 Ian McMillan is joined by guests Reeta Chakrabarti, Fred D'Aguiar, Edward Wilson-Lee and @ellafrears.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🌹 Poetry Workshop: Rough Magic with @ellafrears.bsky.social 📅 Sat 22 Feb 2025 | 🕙 10am–5pm GMT 📍 2 Kings Head Parade, High St, Wendover, Aylesbury HP22 6DX Join Rough Trade Books in the picturesque Chiltern Hills! ✨ Sign up here: roughtradebooks.com/...

‘A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny’ OBSERVER ‘A dark, addictive and deceptively erudite read’ TELEGRAPH ‘It’s Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground reimagined for the renting generation’ DAZED

We are honoured and excited to be hosting an evening with Ella Frears here at Real Magic Books on Friday 21 February, celebrating her fierce, dark, funny and unique novel-in-verse, Goodlord: An Email. Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/647993/