Welcome to Red Room Poetry
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20+ Years
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88+ Major projects
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1,416+ Poets commissioned
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32,356+ Poems created
Featured Projects
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Red Room Fellowship
The Fellowship is an annual residency program recognising the achievements and artistic goals of contemporary Australian poets. Applications for the 2024 Fellowship are now open. -
Poetry Month
Poetry Month aims to increase the profile of Australian poetry and poets. Our goal is to increase access, awareness, value and visibility of poetry in all its forms and for all audiences. -
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. -
POEM FOREST
POEM FOREST is a free nature writing prize that breathes life back into the natural world that sustains us. Entries now open! -
Phone-a-Poem
Pick up the landline handset and dial a number to hear a poem. -
MAD Poetry
We are full of worlds that can't be contained by a pill. MAD Poetry creates a safe writing space for emerging voices with a lived/living experience of mental health issues to express how they see the world.
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Ban Maganindadjyang (My Old People Done)
By Jacob Morris~ poem written in Gumea Dharawal, with interpretations by Jacob
Gumea-Dharawal
Waagl Ngura Ngiagaang, Ban Gili Maganindadjyang -
Listening to Trees
By Jacqueline SuskinI press my forehead against
an old growth redwood trunk,
twisted bark like thick fur
the color of rust. I step inside -
An Heirloom of Love
By Adrian Mouhajer, Princess Arinola Adegbiteafter bell hooks
Here on my table, we share the memory of our countries,
centuries of recipes stitched into the strands of my hair,
