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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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. 🍒🍋⚓🔔
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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...
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GOODLORD the audiobook out now with Rough Trade Books 💫 get it here (or wherever you normally get your audiobooks) roughtradebooks.bandcamp.com/album/goodlo...
Can’t wait! 💚
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
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.
✍️ #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!!
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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 👌
Thanks! 🌞
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
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
Which books did I recommend to prospective students at today’s applicant visit day?
