Goodlord: An Email Christophe Batens

Goodlord: An Email Christophe BatensElla Frears 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 livesthe 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

this makes available a missing

perception and reality

has led us to ignore her deep engagement with the natural world

It includes an editor's introduction by scholar and writer Rosa Campbell

Playful and meticulously written

it asks just how little of ourselves we can be

“blacked out when I grabbed the chop//it got so dark” – Rio Da Yung OG

The Matrix feels as fresh and necessary today as when it was first published

" For Gizzi

transgressive and

Martin Gambarotta

It seeks new expressions of desire and modes of breath