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Red Room Poetry: Line Break

Red Room Poetry

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 of the national Poetry Month and beyond. We’ll be sharing daily 30in30 poetry commissions and writing

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30in30: A poem for every day in August

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2024/08/27

Every day across Poetry Month in August, 30in30 delivers new original poetry, reflections and writing prompts from some of the country’s leading poets, authors, and spoken word artists. 30in30 provides a snapshot of some of the best of contemporary Australian poetry - and in this episode, we’ve pulled together a selection of this year’s commissioned works for your listening pleasure. Find out more about Poetry Month and the artists featured in this episode at redroompoetry.org/poetrymonth Artist

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27:31

Comparison is the thief of creativity: Brendan Cowell...

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2024/08/20

What do art and sport have in common, and how do you feed your creativity? Brendan Cowell is an award-winning writer, actor and director for television, theatre and film. He is currently in production on a six-part adaptation of his novel Plum with ABC and Screen Australia, starring Asher Keddie. Red Room Poetry Creative Producer and Line Break host Izzy Roberts-Orr spoke with Brendan about his poem, ‘Boyd Cordner’, commissioned for Poetry Month 2021 and published in Red Room Poetry’s 20 year

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Mucking around with the material: Nam Le on art,...

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2024/08/13

What does poetry mean to you? And what if you could put a book on shuffle? Nam Le’s work encompasses fiction, non-fiction, poetry and screen. His debut poetry collection 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem was published in March 2024 in Australia, the U.S. and U.K. Red Room Poetry Creative Producer and Line Break host Izzy Roberts-Orr spoke with Nam about breaking the form of the book apart, poetry’s ability as a form to reach through language toward the incommunicable, and his poem, ‘Quilting the

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A poem made entirely of questions: Jazz Money on...

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2024/08/06

What can poetry do to change the world? Earlier this year, we met up with poet and artist Jazz Money in a half-renovated room at Carriageworks during the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Scooched into the corner sitting cross-legged on the floor, Red Room Poetry Creative Producer Izzy Roberts-Orr spoke with Jazz about the radical potential of poetry, Sara M Saleh’s brilliant poem, ‘Border control: mediations’, and specificity as a gateway to the universal. Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist whose

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'ኪዳን / Covenant' by Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes

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2023/10/16

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 Cry of Mountains), and has been performed widely on stage and radio in Ethiopia. His English short stories and translated poems have been published in anthologies and journals, including Westerly, Unlimited

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'Mangrove Girls' by Lulu Houdini | 30in30

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2023/08/27

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 finding our way back home to the guniimara, the mother's hands. She currently lives on and cares for Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi & Jinibara Country, Sunshine Coast. Lulu is also one of the inaugural recipients of

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'A Day at the Beach' by Karen Wyld | 30in30

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2023/08/26

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 lives by the sea on Kaurna Yarta in South Australia. 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

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'Kush Dil' by Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa | 30in30

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2023/08/25

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, and spoken word artists. https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/ Read the full poem here: https://redroompoetry.org/poets/sukhjit-kaur-khalsa/kush-dil-happy-heart Our theme music is 'DIY’ by

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Line Break | Poetic Lifelines, hosted by David Stavanger

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2023/08/24

“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 Poetry Month #30in30. If a poem was a room you could walk into, whose voices might you hear? Red Room Poetry grew from a community radio show focused on the voices of Australian poets. Now in our 20th year,

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'my most-watched YouTube searches of the year (so...

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2023/08/24

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, and spoken word artists. https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/ Read the full poem here: https://redroompoetry.org/poets/andrew-sutherland/my-most-watched-youtube-searches-year-so-far/ Our theme

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'The Stars' by Melanie Mununggurr | 30in30

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2023/08/24

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, and spoken word artists. https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/ Read the full poem here: https://redroompoetry.org/poets/melanie-mununggurr/stars/ Our theme music is 'DIY’ by Material Gurl

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'pinged hammy' by Harry Reid | 30in30

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2023/08/24

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, and spoken word artists. https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/ Read the full poem here: https://redroompoetry.org/poets/harry-reid/pinged-hammy/ Our theme music is 'DIY’ by Material Gurl

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'COMPROMISING THE AMBIANCE' by Poetry Ambassador...

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2023/08/24

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, and spoken word artists. https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/ Read the full poem here: https://redroompoetry.org/poets/david-quirk/compromising-ambiance/ Our theme music is 'DIY’ by Material Gurl

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'Rituals' by Joanna Yang | 30in30

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2023/08/24

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, and spoken word artists. https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/ Read the full poem here: https://redroompoetry.org/poets/joanna-yang/rituals/ Our theme music is 'DIY’ by Material Gurl

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'TIME' by Warren Mason | 30in30

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2023/08/24

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, and spoken word artists. https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/ Read the full poem here: https://redroompoetry.org/poets/warren-mason/time Our theme music is 'DIY’ by Material Gurl

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'Fan of Bad Taste' by Lucinda Shannon | 30in30

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2023/08/24

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, and spoken word artists. https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/ Read the full poem here: https://redroompoetry.org/poets/lucinda-shannon/fan-bad-taste/ Our theme music is 'DIY’ by Material Gurl

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'Screen Memory' by Anwen Crawford | 30in30

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2023/08/24

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, and spoken word artists. https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/ Read the full poem here: https://redroompoetry.org/poets/anwen-crawford/screen-memory/ Our theme music is 'DIY’ by Material Gurl

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'THE EPIC HIGHS AND LOWS OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL' by...

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2023/08/24

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, and spoken word artists. https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/ Read the full poem here: https://redroompoetry.org/poets/rebecca-shaw/epic-highs-and-lows-high-school-football Our theme music is

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'Together We Can Walk That Mile' by Sean Choolburra |...

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2023/08/24

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, and spoken word artists. https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/ Read the full poem here: https://redroompoetry.org/poets/sean-choolburra/together-we-can-walk-that-mile Our theme music is 'DIY’ by

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'Sea Grape (A Decaying-Flourishing Sestina)' by...

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2023/08/24

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, and spoken word artists. https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/ Read the full poem here: https://redroompoetry.org/poets/stuart-barnes/sea-grape Our theme music is 'DIY’ by Material Gurl Created

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