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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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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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. -
Youth Poet Laureate
Red Room Poetry is building Australia’s first Youth Poet Laureate Program for poets aged 18-25. We’ll elevate the nation’s most brilliant young poets, embed their voices in public life, and gather audiences to enjoy their work. -
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.
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Find Your New Favourite Poem
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Guest Rooms
By Svetlana Sterlin1.
some poems take years to arrive,
growing to the backdrop of screaming
cicadas, galahs, and mozzies in the ears -
I don’t need to tell you that rain is poetry (the earth is an open mouth)
By Pascalle Burton'X marks the spot—the whole thing’s an X.'
from The Ignoramus of Love by Destroyer
this morning, I stepped outside
it had rained overnight -
Second Innings
By Bharat SundaresanThey huddled around me, like close-in fielders on a Mumbai dustbowl
A couple stood a few feet away, hands clasping their knees
The other two much closer, crouched low right under my nose
To catch anything that came their way
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