In partnership with Artful Scribe and John Hansard Gallery, join poet Ella Frears to celebrate the release of her new publication Goodlord: An Email.

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 (Guardian)

Direct Address: Poetry Workshop

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.

Tickets can be purchased for the poetry reading (6-7pm) or workshop (2-4pm) and poetry reading (6-7pm).

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 physics department, 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.