Red Room Poetry: Line Break
Red Room Poetry: Line Break
If a poem was a room you could walk into, whose voices might you hear? Red Room Poetry, Australia's leading organisation for commissioning, creating, publishing and promoting poetry in meaningful ways, grew from a community radio show focused on the voices of Australian poets. Now celebrating our 20th year, we’re exploring our audio archives - including commissioned poems from the first two years…Follow the podcast:
'ኪዳን / Covenant' by Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes
Yirga is a writer, researcher and poet from Lalibela, Ethiopia. He currently lives in Whadjuk Noongar Boodja (Perth, Western Australia), where he is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University. His Amharic poetry was published in a solo collection, የተራሮች ጩኸት (The …
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'Mangrove Girls' by Lulu Houdini | 30in30
Lulu Houdini is a proud Gamilaraay/Gomeroi woman, writer, artsworker, nurse and birth worker. She creates and explores around connections with poetry of land, sea, sky, story. The main themes she explores are texture, Country, identity, traditional language, kweer nature, sensuality, love and find…
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'A Day at the Beach' by Karen Wyld | 30in30
Today's #30in30 poet is freelance writer and author of Martu descent Karen Wyld! Karen has recently authored the books Where the Fruit Falls (UWA Publishing) and Heroes, Rebels and Innovators: Inspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from history (Hachette Australia Books ). She live…
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'Kush Dil' by Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa | 30in30
Poetry Month (1–31 August) is an initiative presented by Red Room Poetry to increase the profile of Australian poetry in all of its forms. Every day across Poetry Month, 30in30 delivers new original poetry, reflections and writing prompts from some of the country’s leading poets, public figures, an…
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Line Break | Poetic Lifelines, hosted by David Stavanger
“Poetry is about freedom and it's survival. Poetry for me was lifesaving.” ~ Mohammad Awad MAD Poetry Producer, and Poetry Month Senior Producer David Stavanger draws out selected poems from the MAD Poetry archives in this episode, plus a range of selected poems previously commissioned as part of …
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'my most-watched YouTube searches of the year (so far)' by Andrew Sutherland | 30in30
Poetry Month (1–31 August) is an initiative presented by Red Room Poetry to increase the profile of Australian poetry in all of its forms. Every day across Poetry Month, 30in30 delivers new original poetry, reflections and writing prompts from some of the country’s leading poets, public figures, an…
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'The Stars' by Melanie Mununggurr | 30in30
Poetry Month (1–31 August) is an initiative presented by Red Room Poetry to increase the profile of Australian poetry in all of its forms. Every day across Poetry Month, 30in30 delivers new original poetry, reflections and writing prompts from some of the country’s leading poets, public figures, an…
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'pinged hammy' by Harry Reid | 30in30
Poetry Month (1–31 August) is an initiative presented by Red Room Poetry to increase the profile of Australian poetry in all of its forms. Every day across Poetry Month, 30in30 delivers new original poetry, reflections and writing prompts from some of the country’s leading poets, public figures, an…
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'COMPROMISING THE AMBIANCE' by Poetry Ambassador David Quirk | 30in30
Poetry Month (1–31 August) is an initiative presented by Red Room Poetry to increase the profile of Australian poetry in all of its forms. Every day across Poetry Month, 30in30 delivers new original poetry, reflections and writing prompts from some of the country’s leading poets, public figures, an…
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'Rituals' by Joanna Yang | 30in30
Poetry Month (1–31 August) is an initiative presented by Red Room Poetry to increase the profile of Australian poetry in all of its forms. Every day across Poetry Month, 30in30 delivers new original poetry, reflections and writing prompts from some of the country’s leading poets, public figures, an…
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