Welcome to Red Room Poetry
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20+ Years
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100+ Projects
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1,800+ Poets Commissioned
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43,600+ Poems created
Featured Theme
Stargazing
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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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Red Room Fellowship
The Fellowship is an annual residency program recognising the achievements and artistic goals of contemporary Australian poets. Applications are currently closed. -
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. -
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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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 -
The Great Displaced
By Omar MusaFor Jess
The boy lights a candle
and faces a perilous horizon. -
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