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Book Launch Ella Frears: Goodlord

20 June 2024 at 18.30–20.30
Front cover of the book Goodlord by Ella Frears

© Rough Trade Books

Join Ella Frears to celebrate the release of her highly anticipated new publication Goodlord

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 the people and places of our lives—the spaces of work, those that may or may not be ‘home’, sites of trauma and ecstasy. Showing all the control of voice one would expect from a poet of her rare skill, Ella Frears has created a book that is as funny as it is harrowing, and beautifully skewers the contemporary housing crisis while questioning the fundamental desires, drivers and disappointments that lie at the heart of our obsession with ‘property’.

'All the hot women I know have Ella Frears on their bedside tables.'

Sheena Patel

Ella will be in conversation with her editor Will Burns, who will also be introducing his latest offering Natural Burial Ground.

During the event the restaurant bar will be open for refreshments.

Ella Frears

Ella Frears is a poet and artist born in Cornwall, now based in London. Poems from Shine, Darling (2020) adorned the walls of the Tate St Ives and the collection was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.

She has held residencies and fellowships for
the Tate Gallery, the National Trust, Royal Holloway University physics department, John Hansard Gallery, the Dartington Trust, 16 motorway service stations, the number 17 bus in Southampton, and Exeter University’s environmental history department.

She is currently the RLF Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She hosts Tears for Frears on Soho Radio.

Will Burns

Will Burns was born in London and lives in Buckinghamshire. He is Poet-In-Residence at Caught By The River and was named as one of the four Faber & Faber New Poets for 2014 with his debut pamphlet in that series published in October 2014.

His second pamphlet was published as part of the Clutag Press 5 Poems series in early 2016, and in 2019, alongside the composer Hannah Peel he released Chalk Hill Blue, a collaborative album of electronic compositions and poems.

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