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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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.
Featured Theme
Bureaucracy
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Throes
By Kate Lilley, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted LipsThis world is a ball – give it to me
or take it from me (if you can).
Quick, quicker, quickest,
all the parts of speech apply. -
The Anti-travel Travel Poem
By Adam AitkenThe anti-travel travel poem suggests the road
romance & regrets
the endless paperwork we left behind
I dreamed of walking boots that wouldn't lace -
Principles for victims and others
By Robin M Eames, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted LipsThe patient is unfit to appear / in this Act
in absence of person / the person becomes an involuntary patient
when the person is admitted.
A person is presumed / a person only if it’s appropriate
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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,
