Ella Frears

Ella Frears’s debut pamphlet, Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity, is out from Goldsmiths Press.

Poem: ‘And Sand and Sand and Sand’

Ella Frears, 20 December 2018

For W.

I have this friend who’s into sand / not like the beach / like sand you might use in construction / the economics of sand / buying and selling sand / not that he buys or sells / but he enjoys / for example / that there is a black market for sand / this friend is a writer / he writes these novels in which the characters are obsessed with sand / buried in sand / crack a tooth on...

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