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
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Stargazing
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The Great Displaced
By Omar MusaFor Jess
The boy lights a candle
and faces a perilous horizon. -
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
Featured Projects
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Poem Forest 2026
Poem Forest is a free nature writing prize that breathes life back into the natural world that sustains us. Entries now open! -
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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This difference exists
By Candy Royalle1.
all that makes us
sink beneath the
weight of simply -
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. -
With Change
By Aurora Liddle-ChristieThe land is crying for us to care
care that blood waters its soil more than rain
The seasons have shifted, but humanity stays the same
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