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20+ Years
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90+ Major projects
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1,818+ Poets commissioned
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43,665+ Poems created
Apply Now: Red Room's Fellowship
The Red Room Poetry Fellowship supports six poets to deeply engage with and develop their practice. This opportunity encourages poets to undertake an intensive period of creative development including a residency at Varuna or remotely, mentorship, as well as a poetic commission to be published as part of Poetry Month in August.
Applications for the 2026 Red Room Poetry Fellowship are now open and will close 5pm, Tuesday 3 February 2026 (AEDT). Apply.
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Looking to the stars...
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all the while, trying to start the engine
By Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips, Helen Franzmann(for Jupiter)
between waking and sleep, two switches flicker
connecting stop-starts from Life and Now -
The Great Displaced
By Omar MusaFor Jess
The boy lights a candle
and faces a perilous horizon.
Featured Projects
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ABC Line Break
We are thrilled to be partnering with the national broadcaster, ABC Radio National, to bring you a weekly poem across 2025 from poets across the continent. -
Baraya Barray - Whale Song
Baraya Barray is a cultural immersion experience for young First Nations people, celebrating First Languages through the creation of poetry, song and dance. -
Middle of the Air
A new national competition with ABC RN, uniting poem and song
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Find your new favourite poem
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How Long
By Jo Giles“So, have they told you how long they think you’ve got?”
Gun loaded, trigger pulled, gun shot.
It’s a common question, I should mention
This Doctor’s not so out of line -
Poem For a Stranger in a Time of War
By Tishani Doshi, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted LipsWe left the city and found at the gates
a prescription with your name on it.
We took the metro to the beach
and on the shore, we saw
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