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'.  

Ella Frears is a poet and artist based in London. Her collection Shine, Darling (Offord Road Books, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Ella has been Poet in Residence for Tate St Ives, the National Trust, Royal Holloway University physics department, John Hansard Gallery and the Dartington Trust's grade II listed gardens, among others. In 2023 she was a Creative Fellow for Exeter University's environmental history department. She is currently RLF fellow for the Courtauld Institute of Art. Ella hosts Tears for Frears on Soho Radio.