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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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. -
Poem Forest 2026
Poem Forest is a free nature writing prize that breathes life back into the natural world that sustains us. Entries now open! -
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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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 -
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 -
The language of hope
By Hodan Yasin, Saba Vasefitranslated by Saba Vasefi
I close my eyes,
Releasing countless butterflies—
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