Ella Frears
Friday 2nd May, 6:30pm
Join us in welcoming poet and artist Ella Frears to Falmouth! Ella’s latest work, Goodlord: An Email is a dazzling, funny, and incisive work taking the form of an email to an estate agent, and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the Sky Arts Awards’ Times Breakthrough Artist of the Year.
Ella Frears is a poet and artist based in London. Her debut collection, Shine, Darling, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. In 2022, Ella was named first ever Poet in Residence for the Dartington Trust’s grade II listed Gardens, selected by Alice Oswald. Ella has had poetry published in the London Review of Books, the Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Guardian, The Telegraph and more. She is currently the Royal Literary Fund Fellow for the Courtauld Institute of Art.
The Poly, Falmouth
£8 + Poly fund
Goodlord: An Email
Asked by letting agent, Ava, to make an account with the ominous sounding property technology ‘Goodlord’, our narrator launches into a breathless and rage fuelled reply that swings wildly between anecdotes of chaotic house-shares, grubby university halls, the claustrophobic school days that haunt her still, her various underpaid exploitative jobs at pubs and restaurants, relationships and sexual encounters both troubling and ecstatic, and an artists’ residency that offers her the space she craves but demands a complicated transaction in return. Written in sharp, unflinching prose, Goodlord exposes the grinding inequalities of modern life.
It is a blistering exploration of what it means to live in a world where everything, including your dignity, comes with a price tag.