Johanna Bell

Johanna Bell lives in Darwin where she writes and works as an independent audio producer. Her written work has been published by Allen & Unwin, Scholastic, Overland, Meanjin, Griffith Review, Black Inc and Australian PoetryBirds Eye View, co-created with women in Darwin Prison, won a New York Radio Award, Australian Podcast of the Year and a Walkley Award nomination. Currently, Johanna is working on a verse novel about vanishing birds.

Articles by Johanna Bell:

22 October 202120 November 2021 · Friday Poetry

Poetry | While we were on Twitter

Johanna Bell

A kingfisher swallowed a cane toad near Kakadu | A woman in south-east Queensland saw rainbow lorikeets fall from the sky | A flock of brolga fished for frogs in an algal bloom | Just outside Cairns, a bush-stone curlew bounced off the bonnet of a speeding ute | In Broome, a grey nomad pulled a blue-faced finch from the radiator of his 4WD

Published in Overland Issue 225 Summer 2016 ·

Runner-up: Silver linings

Johanna Bell

The moon called through the eucalypts and we went, my brother and I, barefoot against the mountain night. At the bank of the creek we stopped and rolled up our pyjamas. The flannelette, still warm, felt like fur. Our toes searched for smooth river stones and with our arms linked, we nudged our way through the icy water. It stung but it felt good too, like an ice-cream headache.