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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  POEM FOREST Yuin

  With support from the Australia Council Re-imagine: Sector Recovery Initiatives fund, we’ve been working with Elders and Custodians across Yuin Country to come together to heal Country and community through poetry and planting.

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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.

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  Admissions Anthology

  We've partnered with our MAD Poetry Coordinator, David Stavanger and Upswell Publishing to support the release of the forthcoming lived-experience mental health poetry anthology Admissions: Voices Within Mental Health.

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  Emerging Poets Residency

  With support from the Adès Foundation, the Emerging Poets Residency encourages the creative trajectory of emerging Australian poets.

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  Poetry Month

  Poetry Month aims to increase the profile of Australian poetry and poets. Our goal is to increase access, awareness, value and visibility of poetry in all its forms and for all audiences.

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  Red Room Fellowship

  The Fellowship is an annual residency program recognising the achievements and artistic goals of contemporary Australian poets.

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  Fair Trade

  Fair Trade invites some of the world’s leading First Nations poets to weave words across lands and seas, gathering collaborative threads from Australia and across the globe.

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  Voices in the Cage

  Voices in the Cage shares the pain, hopes and sorrow of women in Afghanistan through poetry, published for International Women's Day (8 March 2022).

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  Writing in Resistance

  Writing from a new generation of women with experiences of detention in Australia. Created, curated, edited and translated by human rights journalist and writer, Saba Vasefi.

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  Power through Poetry

  Children are invited to go deeper into the themes of Unsettled by reflecting on the poetry of First Nations artists and responding in their own words with the Australian Museum.

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  New Shoots: Wollongong Botanic Garden

  Five local poets have been commissioned to create new poems for Wollongong Botanic Garden's 50th anniversary.

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  Guwayu – For All Times

  Guwayu – For All Times is a fiercely uncensored collection featuring 63 poems from First Nations poets in 12 First Nations languages commissioned by Red Room Poetry.

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  In Your Hands

  Free e-anthology featuring 80 poems by poets whose recent, current or forthcoming release has been directly affected by the current closure of live events due to COVID19.

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  Writing Water: Rain, River, Reef

  Writing Water: Rain, River, Reef project joins celebrated poets and public submissions to look below the surface and reimagine our essential relationships with water.

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  A Sweatshop in a Red Room

  A Sweatshop in a Red Room is an ongoing collaboration with Sweatshop: Literacy Movement showcasing poetic voices beyond the margins of race and class.

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  Past/Present Pets

  Past/Present Pets honours the life force of animals through a body of poetic and visual work that captures the spirit of companionship.

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  Poetry in First Languages

  Poetry in First Languages (PIFL) celebrates, shares and preserves knowledge of First Nations languages and culture through poetry, music and art.

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  Shadow catchers

  Adopting the mirror as a metaphoric device and the echo as a visual conceit, Shadow catchers offers a playful portrait of photographic doubling.

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  Panacea: Collaborative Chain Poem

  Creating seven-word poems, Panacea branches out into the possibility of connectivity in a world increasingly at odds with itself.