TEARS FOR FREARS – Soho Radio

A quarterly instalment of eye watering, heartbreaking, ecstatic, and/or devastating chat, poetry and music. Host and Rough Trade Books author Ella Frears talks to special guests about those moments – big, small, and unexpected – that move us to tears.

First show with special guests:

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

STRESS TEST – Soho Radio

I’ve recently joined Martha Sprackland, Joe Dunthorne & John Osborne as a host on Stress Test.

Rough Trade Books: Stress Test (31/01/2022)

EDITING

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

CORNISH MODERN POETRIES – BROKEN SLEEP BOOKS, 2022

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.

https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/modern-poetries-1-cornish-modern-poetries