Poetic Learning

Baraya Barray Learning

Quicken your pace, soften your stride
Peer through the foliage and witness a treasure
Are you close? Can you hear?

~ Bridgette L, Year 7, from ‘The Last Asterolasia Seed’ POEM FOREST 2023

Red Room Poetic Learning inspires students and teachers to create, perform and publish poetry in meaningful ways.

We enliven poetic experience through curriculum-aligned resources, and workshops that awaken imaginations and support creative opportunities for children and adults.

In 2024 we invite students to take part in our Education programs: the POEM FOREST nature poetry prize, planting a tree for every poem received, and Baraya Barray - Whale Song, an immersive experience for First Nations students.

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Current Learning Projects

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    POEM FOREST

    POEM FOREST is a free nature writing prize that breathes life back into the natural world that sustains us. Entries now open!
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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.
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    For Our Elders NAIDOC Learning Resource

    Celebrating the 2023 NAIDOC Theme ‘For our Elders’, Poetry in First Languages is honouring and highlighting Elders through new poem commissions and a new curriculum-aligned learning resource

Poetic Learning Resources


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PIFL Gundungurra workshops 2024
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PIFL Gundungurra Workshops 2024

Testimonials

My grade 3 class LOVED this workshop! They were hooked for the entire session and even my reluctant writers were buzzing! Thank you!

~Teacher response, 2023

Our child loves seeing his poem published, and being able to read all the others from his school. He reads lots of poetry but doesn't frequently get inspired to write it. The idea that a tree would be planted if he did really motivated him.

~Parent, Poem Forest 2023

Poetry Object Learning Videos

Delve into poetic devices with this free series of Poetry Object-inspired animations and curriculum-aligned resources that introduce alliteration, imagery, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification and simile.

Designed for Years 3-6, resources can be used to plan an individual English lesson or a unit of work. Animations and activities can be utilised in the order presented or adapted for specific a teaching plan and class. 

Produced by Red Room Poetry in collaboration with ClickView. 

See all the videos, with descriptions and additional resources, here.