Poetry Object Commissioned Poems
Each year Poetry Object commissions new poems from celebrated poets in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. These poems feature in our learning resource and inspire students in writing their own poems about special objects!
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2019
- You’re ~ Stuart Barnes
- Forever, Flag ~ Claire G Coleman
- Ode to a Wooden Spoon ~ Arielle Cottingham
- “MYINTERLUDE” ~ Pola Fanous
- The Candle ~ Eleanor Jackson
- Psychometric Researches ~ Benjamin Laird
- To my tent ~ Jacqui Malins
- A Streetcar Named Diaspora ~ Zech Soakai
2018
- शिवलिङ्ग (Shivling) ~ Shastra Deo
- Inheritance ~ Quinn Eades
- yeperenye notes ~ Yvette Holt
- Rosary ~ Courtney Sina Meredith
- Dolmetsch ~ Arjun von Caemmerer
- Post-Extinction Banquet ~ Scotty Wings
2017
- K1: Yellomundee ~ Evelyn Araluen Corr
- Subsumed; June celebration ~ Jeremy Balius
- Longing, Wanting ~ Stiff Gins
- Oceans ~ Cameron Hindrum
- Nana’s Shower Cap Brooch ~ Anna Jacobson
- Little Wooden Duck ~ Joel McKerrow
- Meshrefet ~ Manal Younus
2016
- The small chest of sand ~ Matthew Heffernan
- Revelair ~ Kathryn Hummel
- A small thing ~ Caitlin Maling
- Talaria ~ Scott-Patrick Mitchell
- Wild Dawn ~ Adam Pettet
- Oyster Shell Necklace ~ Ellen van Neerven
- Kahlo’s Moustache ~ Chloe Wilson
2015
- The Lighthouse ~ Ahman Al Rady
- I have a hat with tiny woolen ears ~ Emilie Zoey Baker
- My one constant travel companion ~ Miranda Lello
- Here and There ~ Francis Thompson
2014
- Whites of the Eye ~ Luke Carman
- Mise en Abyme ~ Lorin Elizabeth
- Anomiidae ~ Felicity Plunkett
2013
- Face-washer ~ Eileen Chong
- Windmills ~ Eileen Chong
- Civic Duty ~ Zenobia Frost
- skin tight/worn thin ~ Royce Kurmelovs
- Souvenir ~ Kate Middleton
- Turban ~ L-FRESH The LION
- Waiter's Friend ~ Corey Wakeling
2012
- The Confessions of Saint Augustine ~ Robert Adamson
- Thread ~ Elizabeth Allen
- Visual Poetry ~ R.A. Briggs
- Suits ~ Samantha Hogg
- Empire ~ Kate Middleton
- Abendessen ~ Sarah-Jane Norman
- Cassette Sonnet ~ Nicholas Powell
- Sonnet for Brown Suit ~ Nicholas Powell