Words through Walls

Evelyn Holloway has a long career in writing. Her poems have been published in several magazines and anthologies. Two chapbooks: Conversation in Colour and A Live in If have been published by Labyrinth, a Viennese group of English writers. She has also written plays and works as literary translator.Born 1955 in Vienna Evelyn Holloway started writing and publishing already as a teenager. At the age of sixteen she leaves her family and travels to Oxford to finish her education and to study English. Decisive for her writing was an encounter with her literary hero Samuel Beckett in 1973 which she describes in a poem.
She has lived in Beirut, Athens and other places wherever the work of her husband took him and after her divorce spend a few years in Jerusalem where she performed as a Clown in a local theater.Now for a long time she has been moving every three to four months between Vienna and St. Ives/Cornwall where she participates in the annual festival. The costal landscape has left lots of traces in her poems. I don’t describe, I go straight into the core of things. I go straight inside. This is what Evelyn says about herself and her writing. Words through Walls is not a simple statement, even less a demand, but rather an appeal to herself, to others, to continue writing, speaking, protesting, wordplaying, living.