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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

clip from the Rough Trade Books showcase at the Queen Elizabeth Hall - collaboration with Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap) - ‘the body of a teenage girl’ (very nearly titled ‘Miracle Sauce’ ✨

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In May I went to Dublin to record a programme on Borges for RTE with Colm Tóibín, Luke Clancy & Ukrainian composer Olesya Zdorovetska. I chose the story ‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’ for us to discuss. Listen here to hear us get increasingly nerdy and excited 🪞📚📝 www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

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Fictions: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (XXXL) | Culture File

<p>Culture File's August reading club featuring the Fictions of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Luke and Colm welcome a special guest to discuss one story from Borges's collection Fictions. This ...

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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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...

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UK News 🇬🇧 @news-flows-uk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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...

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Calling all poets! Enter our poetry competition with Camp Bestival

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 Li...

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I’m moving to Paris in September! 🇫🇷💙

‘Meet our 2026-27 fellows’ photos of the 15 fellows

White building with white flowers on a green bush

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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...

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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

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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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🧡

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City Lit @citylit.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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...

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

DO YOU WORK IN THE LONELY OFFICE OF POETRY? It’s time we had a Christmas party. thesocial.seetickets.com/event/the-po...

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Just reminding you that you do want and need this for your writing 💘 roughtradebooks.com/collections/...

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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...

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PESSIMISM IS FOR LIGHTWEIGHTS: 30 PIECES OF COURAGE AND RESISTANCE // SALENA GODDEN, by Salena Godden

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

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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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

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 · 03/07/2025

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 · 23/06/2025

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/...

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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 · 19/05/2025

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

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Greene & Heaton Literary and Media Agency @greeneandheaton.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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 · 01/05/2025

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 @poetrysociety.org.uk · 26/04/2025

✍️ #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 · 22/04/2025

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

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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 · 06/04/2025

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 · 03/04/2025

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 · 05/04/2025

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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Sue Wallace-Shaddad @suewallaceshaddad.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

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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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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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

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

zong! By M Nourbese Philip, Will Harris’s Rendang, Them! By Harry Josephine Giles, Jen Bervin’s Nets, Sam Rivière’s Conflicted Copy, Ella Frears’ Goodlord an email, Alice Oswald’s Dart, Self Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant, and She Needs The River by JI Kleinberg

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Joseph Callanan @josephacallanan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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

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Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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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Ian Seed @ianseedauthor.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

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

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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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Real Magic Books @realmagicbooks.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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/

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The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🌹 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....

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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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

2025 Longlist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, UK & Ireland -- image of the 10 books selected for the longlist:
-There's a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem tr. Laëtitia Saint-Loubert & Karen Fleetwood (Bullaun Press)
-Invisible Dogs by Charles Boyle Invisible Dogs by Charles Boyle (CB Editions)
-How to Leave the World by Marouane Bakhti How to Leave the World by Marouane Bakhti tr. Lara Vergnaud (Divided Publishing)
-Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings (Holland House Books)
-Célina by Catherine Axelrad Célina by Catherine Axelrad tr. Philip Terry (Les Fugitives)
-Mother Naked by Glen James Brown Mother Naked by Glen James Brown (Peninsula Press)
-The Seers by Sulaiman Addonia The Seers by Sulaiman Addonia (Prototype Publishing)
-Goodlord, an email by Ella Frears Goodlord by Ella Frears (Rough Trade Books)
-Somewhere Else by Jenni Daiches Somewhere Else by Jenny Daiches (Scotland Street Press)
-Daybook by Nathan Knapp Daybook by Nathan Knapp (Splice)

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Shivanee Ramlochan @novelniche.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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-...

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Annie Brechin @anniebrechin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hard recommend

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Greene & Heaton Literary and Media Agency @greeneandheaton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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...

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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

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Ali Jones @aliskjones.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

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

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B&W Thornton of Stratford-upon-Avon @bwthornton.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

#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...

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BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, Reeta Chakrabarti, Fred D'Aguiar, Ella Frears, Edward Wilson-Lee

Reeta Chakrabarti, Fred D'Aguiar, Edward Wilson-Lee and Ella Frears.

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