Mon 24 Mar
|BookBar
BookBar Presents... Ella Frears in conversation with Sheena Patel
Join Forward Prize-shortlisted poet Ella Frears in conversation with Sheena Patel, author of I'm A Fan, to discuss Ella's prose poem Goodlord at BookBar on 24th March 2025.
Time & Location
24 Mar 2025, 19:00 – 21:00
BookBar, 166 Blackstock Rd, London N5 1HA, UK
About the event
Forward Prize-shortlisted poet Ella Frears will be in conversation with author of I'm A Fan Sheena Patel to discuss Goodlord, Ella's superb prose poem. Written as an email from the woman to her landlord, this original story about sexual politics and the housing crisis is told like no other, in this witty and moving story told in verse.
Join us at BookBar to hear from Ella Frears on 24th March 2025 from 7pm.
About Goodlord
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…