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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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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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
Featured Theme
Find Your New Favourite Poem
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We Are Asking For Songs
By Leah SeniorWe go to pray where the edge of land drops away
We spread our picnic rug on the air
No holy wine, we hold our glasses to the sky
Drinking cumulonimbus and contrails -
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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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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