Johanna's BlogElla Holcombe
Ella Holcombe lives in Melbourne. Her work has appeared in publications including The New England Review, Egg (Poetry) and Poetrix, as well as several University Creative Writing collections. Her poem ‘Olivia’ was read on Radio National’s Poetica, as part of The Young Regional Poets Competition. In 2005 Ella's poem 'The Storm' was awarded first place in The John Marsden Competition, presented by Voiceworks, and in 2006 she presented her work at the Melbourne Emerging Writers' Festival. Ella's first collection of poetry, Welcome/No Vacancy, was published by Five Islands Press as part of their New Poets Series. Her poems detail the strangely intertwined lives of humans, houses, skeletons, and broken umbrellas.
Ella contributed the poem 'Waiheke' and small objects to The Cabinet of Lost and Found project.
Waiheke
for days
we walk the island
broken tennis rackets, tent poles
strange murmurs in the bushes
today is night without the darkness
rain falls like a whisper
we watch a grey mass of cloud
shift across the sky
and smoke damp cigarettes,
hold hands beneath trees
the fish and chip lady sings 'love me tender'
over the splutter of fat
my shoes fill with sand,
we fall asleep on the beach
in the morning we swim
the bluest, coldest sea
Ella Holcombe Final
