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Ella Frears

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Nov 14

Goodlord - out with Rough Trade Books roughtradebooks.com/products/goo...

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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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 9d

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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Greene & Heaton Literary and Media Agency @greeneandheaton.bsky.social · 15d

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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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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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · Sep 2

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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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Aug 30

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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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Jul 14

Can’t wait! 💚

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · Jul 13

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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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · Jul 3

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?’

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Jun 23

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/...

Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Jun 2

Frank Skinner & I duet my poem ‘phases of the moon / things I have done’ at Launceston Poetry Festival 🌙✨

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · May 19

Campaign to make my hidden gem a gem 💎 thanks Daily Express

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Greene & Heaton Literary and Media Agency @greeneandheaton.bsky.social · May 1

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-...

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · May 1

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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The Poetry Society @handle.invalid · Apr 26

✍️ #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 (...)

Poetry prompt written by Ella Frears that reads: Write a machine's dream. What does your phone dream about? Your washing machine, oven, car? What about the little cleaning robot at Charing Cross? An electric tin opener? A helicopter? A treadmill? This is not an invitation to use AI. Use your own operating system (brain) to dream into them.

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Apr 22

My moon poem is in the @poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social anthology 🌖✨ a thrill to see it next to the iconic Kim Addonizio

Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Apr 7

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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Writing East Midlands @writingeastmidlands.com · Apr 6

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

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IndieThroughTheLookingGlass @jo-bartlett.bsky.social · Apr 3

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

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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · Apr 5

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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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Apr 6

Thanks! 🌞

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Sue Wallace-Shaddad @suewallaceshaddad.bsky.social · Mar 22

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