Ways of Not Seeing – BBC Radio 4 – Listen here

Writer and presenter: Joseph Rizzo Naudi
Producer: Michael Umney
Executive Producer: Susan Marling
Mixing Engineer: Chris O’Shaugnessy

Original poem written and read by Ella Frears
Standard gallery audio description read by Megan McKie-Smith

TEARS FOR FREARS – Soho Radio

Host and Rough Trade Books author Ella Frears talks to special guests about those moments – big, small, and unexpected – that move us to tears.

28/07/25 TEARS FOR FREARS #13 with special guests

Poet Bohdan Piasecki

Novelist Thomas McMullan

07/04/25 TEARS FOR FREARS #12 with special guests

Historian Helen Castor

Writer Joe Dunthorne

27/01/25 TEARS FOR FREARS #11 with special guests

Poet, writer & librettist Glyn Maxwell

Writer, editor, content consultant Emma Firth

02/12/24 TEARS FOR FREARS #10 with special guests

Poet and Writer Ruth Padel

Poet Alex MacDonald

07/10/24 TEARS FOR FREARS #9 with special guests

Poet Lily Blacksell

Poet Sharan Hunjan

05/08/24 TEARS FOR FREARS #8 with special guests

Poet and novelist Joelle Taylor

Poet and novelist Keiran Goddard

03/06/24 TEARS FOR FREARS #7 with special guests

Poet Don Paterson

Poet Will Harris

01/04/24 TEARS FOR FREARS #6 with special guests

Poet & Novelist Andrew McMillan

Poet & Novelist Susannah Dickey

24/07/23 Tears for Frears #5 with special guests

Poet, Novelist & Performer Cecilia Knapp
Poet, Playwright & Performer Toby Campion

23/10/23 Tears for Frears #4 with special guests

Poet Martina Evans
Writer & performer Stuart Silver
Poet & playwright Zia Ahmed

24/07/23 Tears for Frears #3 with special guests

Novelist Tom Crewe
Artist & Designer Louise Gray
Poet Gboyega Odubanjo

17/04/23 Tears for Frears #2 with special guests:

Writer Sheena Patel
Poet Richard Scott
Writer and illustrator Rose Blake

23/01/23 Tears for Frears #1 with special guests:

Poet & Rough Trade Books editor Will Burns
Poet & critic Sandeep Parmar
Comedian Chloe Petts

STRESS TEST – Soho Radio

Martha Sprackland, Joe Dunthorne, John Osborne & Ella Frears host Stress Test. A show where host poets and special guests write poems live on air.

Martha, Joe, John, and Ella also run Stress Test Live at various festivals and events for which they and a special guest musician write music and poems under timed conditions live on stage. (for more info & bookings email Ella).

22nd September 25 – with special guest Luke Kennard

5th May 25 – with special guest Glyn Maxwell

25th November 24 – with special guest Alex MacDonald

29th July 24 – with special guest Ali Lewis

27th May 24 – with special guest Oluwaseun Olayiwola

27th November 23 – with special guest Steven Camden (AKA Polar Bear)

25th September 23 – with special guest Susannah Dickey

31st July 23 – with special guest Mark Waldron

29th May 23 – with special guest Victoria Adukwei Bulley

27th March 23 – with special guest Sarah Fletcher

EDITING

guest editing issue 100 of The Rialto
guest editing issue 86 of Magma Poetry

CORNISH MODERN POETRIES – BROKEN SLEEP BOOKS, 2022

* Winner of the Holder an Got Award for Poetry 2023 *

Cornish Modern Poetries edited by Ella Frears and Aaron Kent brings the editors’ electric luminosity and bruised tenderness into play as guides. This ground-breaking anthology celebrates the blossoming of contemporary Cornish poetry, featuring luminaries such as Pascale Petit, Jennifer Edgecombe, John Wedgwood Clarke, and Penelope Shuttle alongside many more. Cornish Modern Poetries captures a duality which has made Cornwall an ice-cream famous tourist destination while housing some of the most deprived neighbourhoods in Western Europe. The anthology features poems in English and Kernewek, keeping the Cornish flame burning, into an uncertain future.

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