In partnership with ArtfulScribe, join poet Ella Frears to celebrate the release of her new publication, Goodlord: An Email
Workshop: 2–4pm
In Conversation and Performance: 6–7pm (Refreshments provided)
Tickets £10 (includes the Workshop and In Conversation and Performance)
In Conversation and Performance event is free for students. Use promo code STUDENT at checkout. Student ID must be shown upon arrival.
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.
“Goodlord zips along, blackly compelling and readable.” – Holly Williams, The Guardian
Direct Address: Poetry Workshop, 2–4pm
Join Ella for a fun and low pressure poetry workshop thinking about modes of communication.
Who are we addressing when we write? How can shifting the tone of that writing disrupt or enrich that writing?
You’ll experiment with writing in various forms of address – from love letters to emails, from formal complaints to grocery lists, from proclamations to DMs, and everything in between.
No writing experience necessary, ages 18+ only.
In Conversation and Performance: 6–7pm
In the evening, Ella will be in discussion with Matt West, Director of ArtfulScribe, as well as performing some of her latest work. There will also be opportunity for an audience Q&A.
Ella Frears is a poet and artist born in Cornwall, now based in London.
She has held also residencies and fellowships for the Tate Gallery, the National Trust, Royal Holloway University Department of Physics, the Dartington Trust, 16 motorway service stations, the number 17 bus in Southampton, and Exeter University’s Environmental History Department. Ella was Writer-in-Residence at John Hansard Gallery in 2021.
She is currently the RLF Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She hosts Tears for Frears on Soho Radio.
ArtfulScribe is a not-for-profit writer development agency based in Southampton. We support emerging and continuing writers in Hampshire, Dorset, and the Solent region to create new work and develop skills through writing workshops, live events and career-development opportunities. We work with all ages and levels of ability, from primary years through to life’s later stages.