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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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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Staying in the Bastille
By Mindy GillIt was the end of summer,
I hadn’t been thinking of anyone.
Lunch at Les Deux Magots,
cold melon for dessert. -
The language of hope
By Hodan Yasin, Saba Vasefitranslated by Saba Vasefi
I close my eyes,
Releasing countless butterflies— -
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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