Podcasts about red room poetry

‘Let me burrow through the earth and come back with a diamond'- from a prayer to the teachings by AJ D'Costa In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show which aired on Thursday 19th December 2024, you will hear poet AJ D'Costa talk about separateness, belonging, the sacred ordinary and the diaspora. AJ D'Costa is a poet, artist & mental health practitioner of Goan-Indian heritage. She works at the intersection of creativity and contemplative practice, performing spoken word, leading community poetry bushwalks and running a private counselling practice. AJ has been part of the Brown Women Poetry showcase in Melbourne, Sonic Poetry Festival and Red Room Poetry's Poetry Month 2024 calendar. Her work has been published by the Australian Poetry Journal, Tree Paper Gallery, We Are Explorers & New Internationalist, and she talks about creative process on the Spotify podcast Beneath The Words. She currently works from the unceeded lands of the Kulin nation. Find her @ajdcosta.creative. Poems written and performed by AJ D'Costa in this episode:subterranean riversthese are the storms that we knowa prayer to the teachingserasure NoteSpoken word and poetry come from the heart and touch on all the topics peculiar to the human condition. As such there may be content in this show that could cause distress. Please practice self-care when listening and seek help if you need it. CreditsRecorded and produced by Indrani Perera.Thank you to AJ D'Costa for sharing her poetry and to you for listening! 

BBC Contains Strong Language 2024 took place in Sydney Australia in partnership with Red Room Poetry and ABC Australia . This special edition of The Verb was recorded in State Library of New South Wales n front of a audience as part of the festival. With guests Eileen Chong the first Asian Australian poet to be on the school syllabus, who came to Australia from Singapore in 2007. Singer songwriter Paul Kelly - described as the Laureate of Australia - whose latest project sets the work of poets as varied as Shakespeare and Les Murray to music . Omar Sakr - the son of Turkish and Lebanesemigrants whose collection The Lost Arabs won the prestigious Prime Ministers Literary Award . Ali Cobby Eckermann - a First Nation poet who only met her birth mother as an adult. She, her mother and grandmother were all stolen , tricked or adopted away from their families . Her poetry talks powerfully about this personal and national story .Recorded with an acknowledgement of the Gadigal people the traditional custodians of the land where this edition of The Verb took place Produced by Susan Roberts

The BBC's Contains Strong Language festival has left British shores for the first time - and Australian arts and culture presenter Michael Cathcart hosts a special Front Row recorded on Gadigal land in Sydney in partnership with ABC and Red Room Poetry. Known as the Aussie Bob Dylan, singer Paul Kelly performs Going To The River With Dad from his forthcoming album Fever Longing Still. First nations poet Jazz Money reads from her latest collection Mark the Dawn - inspired by the stories of her Wiradjuri ancestors and her feelings of respect for the country around her. As Australia prepares to appoint a Poet Laureate, the British poet laureate Simon Armitage reads a sonnet which describes his childhood desire to dig all the way to Australia from his Yorkshire garden. And lawyer Shankari Chandran - whose novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens won Australia's most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award - reflects on how she draws on her Sri Lankan Tamil heritage to describe the trauma of war and detention of those seeking asylum. Presenter: Michael Cathcart Producer: Paula McGrath

Sasha Huber is Swiss-Haitian… but she lives and works in Finland. She's got a truly interdisciplinary practice - but she does have one particular medium, that's quite unusual - in fact, it's hard to imagine how she makes art from this non-art material. Her medium is the humble staple - not your desk type - she packs a semi-automatic staple gun like the ones tradies use.Sasha's work can be seen at Crepusculum along with artist Petri Saarikko at Gallery Project8 in Melbourne until 14 September.Freya Jobbins is an artist based in regional NSW. Her method of assemblage - the art of making three dimensional pieces from objects that have been discarded  - creates extraordinary and often disturbingly touchable sculptures are made from the flesh coloured parts of toy dolls.Freya is set to have a solo exhibition at Penny Contemporary in Hobart in the new year.It's Poetry Month and to celebrate Radio National is bringing you brand new poems commissioned by Red Room Poetry. Poet, playwright and dramaturge Dylan Van Den Berg's poem Red Face Man is his response to to Benjamin Duterrau's 1840 painting, “Mr Robinson's first interview with Timmy” 

Richard Kicks off this jam packed episode with Simona Jobbagy of NICA and Sam Jacob, CEO of Collarts as they talk about Australia's only Bachelor of Circus Arts finding a new home for 2025.We have Tilly Boleyn, Science Gallery Melbourne's Curator & Gail Chin Curator from Art/Science Museum Singapore as they introduce new exhibition SCI-FI Mythologies Transformed, on-now at Science Gallery Melbourne.Curator Vipoo Srivilasa & Artist Zhu Ohmu join Richard in studio to discuss Generation Clay - Reimagining Asian Heritage Curated at Bunjil Place.Nicola Gunn Writer, director and performer also jumps into the studio to talk about her new play ‘Apologia' premiering at the Beckett Theatre on 6-18 August 2024.Band members Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh & Naoise Ó Cairealláin of Irish rap outfit KneeCap chat about the new film, in which they star and play as themselves, which premieres at MIFF later this month.hJames Jackson, Castmember and Artistic Director for Bloomshed productions has a yarn about their new production, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest', and lastly, in preparation for Poetry Month 2024 we are joined over the phone by Creative Producer Izzy Roberts-Orr for Red Room Poetry.

Jennifer Mackenzie is a poet and critic. She has published two books which focus on Indonesia, Borobudur and Navigable Ink (both with Transit Lounge), and is working on a third. She is a member of the management committee of Australian Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT), and is co-editor of the Australian edition of the international, Nepalese-based, Pratik, a magazine of contemporary writing. Jennifer's appearance at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, where the Australian edition of Pratik was launched, was courtesy of Creative Australia and APWT.Here she talks about curating along with her fellow editors Australian poetry for Pratik in conjunction with APWT. The Australian edition of the magazine, Fire and Rain, was launched in Ubud in 2023 and in Melbourne in 2024. The edition includes a collaboration with Red Room Poetry to highlight the work of First Nations authors.The Australian edition of Pratik is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Pratik-Fire-Special-Australian-Issue/dp/B0CK8MSDBN/ref=sr_1_106?crid=S1ZPIKBXO46L&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ITPjoAiRveNdwx52uUDQbdyCFAa1A4TYwfySydUQbIVeHH6e7KEh6bZt-aybCMQQcmhsnbj4rE4D80ZY9pEWTw8ZtGPF9JAIUa7T8iIzjv99pj9yYaZkBwIKGKm49lpQ6eXSIuwtZcB_3F78crdBAj3Z3tN5poitSoOSxT29GBs.QxE7mlnbVjsaDwTP7Z0RyAWZiZGHsHYERYTbf9UvceY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Nirala%20Publications&qid=1719129788&s=books&sprefix=nirala%20publications%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C596&sr=1-106&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR21iPnG0255IPM07kSGn-4_U1f--VTQBCs3UfcynFd9DkwN8YQfccmkgJk_aem_KkwHEbCZOZW6x2S8sOr1tg  Production and Interview: Tina Giannoukos                Photo: Gay LynchProduction and Interview: Tian Giannoukos

In this episode, a conversation with Manisha Anjali, a writer, artist, and teacher, and author of 'Naag Mountain'. This book is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia. Anjali brings to life the histories and events, the stories and myths of a displaced and exploited people, that have been lost in time or forgotten or hidden from view. Anjali was joined in conversation by Izzy Roberts-Orr, a poet, playwright, broadcaster, arts worker, and a Creative Producer with Red Room Poetry.

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Povo is the latest anthology from Sweatshop. Sweatshop is a literacy movement based in Western Sydney which is devoted to empowering culturally and linguistically diverse communities through reading, writing and critical thinking. Today's panel features: Adam Novaldy Anderson Adam is a mixed-race Australian-Indonesian writer and activist. Adam's short stories and essays have appeared in various anthologies and publications. He is the editor of Povo (Sweatshop, 2024). Natalia Figueroa Barroso Natalia is a Uruguayan-Australian writer from Penrith. Natalia's poem, “Anew”, was shortlisted for the 2015 Lane Cove Literary Award and her screenplay, “Roots”, was selected for a 2018 Breakthrough Emerging Screenwriter Development. Natalia was also longlisted for the 2021 SBS Emerging Writers Competition, which resulted in the collection Between Two Worlds (Hardie Grant Books, 2022). Natalia is currently working on her debut novel. Katie Shammas Katie is a Palestinian Australian writer. She has been published in Red Room Poetry and kindling & sage magazine. Final Draft is produced and presented by Andrew Pople Want more great conversations with Australian authors? Discover this and many more conversations on Final Draft every week from 2ser. Get in touch with Andrew and Final Draft. We love to hear about what you're reading! Twitter - https://twitter.com/finaldraft2ser  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/finaldraft2ser/  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/finaldraft2ser/ 

EPISODE 4: BEING ALONE & TALKING TO PEOPLE. Rebecca Kelly & Misbah Wolf. Today EWF are stoked to share a conversation between poets Rebecca Kelly and Misbah Wolf. Rebecca Kelly is a poet from the waters of Darkinjung Country, currently situated on Wurundjeri Country. Presently, her work is fuelled by questions of class, being, identity and psyche. Misbah Wolf is a Naarm based poet, who is a hybrid artist, combining music, poetry, performance and art. Their current obsession is exploring the intersections of monotheism and alternative spiritualities through cut-ups, music, research and channelling and are currently writing what they have called an ‘auto-mythological' fiction funded by Creative Victoria. They have published work through Peril Magazine, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, Slow Canoe, Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word, Mascara Literary Journal, Overland, Red Room Poetry and La Mama Poetica.. Their first book was Rooftops in Karachi. Her new book ‘Carapace' was published by Vagabond Press in 2022. Misbah and Rebecca met for the first time for this conversation. They spoke about the spiritual, musical and thematic influences within their poetry, and the idiosyncratic patterns and processes of their practices. This is a tender-hearted, down-to-earth conversation. We hope you enjoy. Credits: Producer: Jess Zanoni (@jesszanoni) Co-Producer & Audio Engineer: Sam Pannifex (@otalgiaaudio) Intro Music: Georgia Farry @bby__g__) Artwork: Tinieka Page (@tinieka) With thanks to Henry Farnan, EWF's Marketing & Publicity Coordinator. With support from the Queen Victoria Women's Centre (@qvwc_melbourne), Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne. Proud to showcase the works of creatives of @melcityoflit.

This week on Women on the Line, Dr. Shih Joo (Siru) Tan and Professor Marie Segrave discuss their study into migrant and refugee women's experiences of sexual harassment in the workplace. And later in the show, we play a poem by freelance writer Karen Wyld for this year's Red Room Poetry. 

Waffle Irongirl speaks with Izzy Roberts-Orr about Red Room Poetry and Poetry Month, with poetry readings from Lulu Houdini, Stuart Barnes, Andrea Goldsmith  and Barrina South.

August is Poetry Month! Each year Red Room Poetry celebrate Australian poets and poetry through a series of events, workshops and showcases throughout August. Red Room Poetry are now in their 20th year and are celebrating Poetry Month this August. Gamilaraay/Gomeroi poet Lulu Houdini shares her poem 'Mangrove Girls'. For more details check out redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month You can get more books, writing and literary culture every week on the Final Draft Great Conversations podcast. Hear interviews with authors and discover your next favourite read! Book Club is produced and presented by Andrew Pople Want more great conversations with Australian authors? Discover this and many more conversations on Final Draft every week from 2ser. Get in touch with Andrew and Final Draft. We love to hear about what you're reading! Twitter - https://twitter.com/finaldraft2ser  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/finaldraft2ser/  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/finaldraft2ser/ 

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Andrew is joined by Dr Tamryn Bennet, a poet and the Artistic Director of Red Room Poetry. Launched in 2021 by Red Room Poetry, Poetry Month aims to increase access, awareness and visibility of poetry in all its forms and for all audiences. Poetry Month features a range of accessible online events and live streams, workshops by international guest poets, writing prompts via our daily #30in30 comp, and poetic installations. Find out more at Red Room Poetry - https://redroompoetry.org/  Final Draft is produced and presented by Andrew Pople Want more great conversations with Australian authors? Discover this and many more conversations on Final Draft every week from 2ser. Get in touch with Andrew and Final Draft. We love to hear about what you're reading! Twitter - https://twitter.com/finaldraft2ser  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/finaldraft2ser/  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/finaldraft2ser/ 

Jordan Sahley welcomes Helena Fox to the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate Helena's #Novel The Quiet And The Loud. Helena is an author, poet and writing mentor, living by the ocean on Dharawal Country in Wollongong, Australia. She mentors young writers and runs writing workshops to support mental health. Helena's debut novel, How It Feels to Float, won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Literature and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Writing for Young Adults in Australia, and was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year in the U.S. Her second novel, The Quiet and the Loud is out now,  Helena's poetry has been published in the Admissions—Voices Within Mental Health anthology and with Red Room Poetry. Click here to visit Helena's website - https://helenafoxauthor.com/  Click here to visit our website - www.readingwithyourkids.com 

How many breakups does it take to break someone? When western culture runs on the power of the romantic couple, it took losing a best friend to prove to Breakup Queen Brooke that she wasn't made entirely of stone and ice.Brooke Scobie is a queer Goorie woman, single mum, poetry and prose writer, podcast host and community worker. Born and bred on Bidjigal country, and now living on Darkinjung land, she considers herself first and foremost a creative weirdo. As a writer she is dedicated to telling stories that centre Blak identities, queer love, family, and unpacking some of the issues that can affect First Nations' communities and countries. Brooke has been published in Overland Journal, Running Dog, Red Room Poetry, SBS and was awarded second place in the 2020 Judith Wright Poetry Prize.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For more information, visit www.queerstories.com.au and follow Queerstories on Facebook.The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia.To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gloria pens a letter to their baby nephew and in doing so ponders what it means to be their Tita, or Tito, or simply Gloria.Gloria Demillo (they/them) is a poet, researcher and multidisciplinary creative. Their most notable contributions include the Harana Poetry Tour for the Art Gallery of New South Wales; published works with the Australian Poetry Journal, Peril Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, Red Room Poetry; and performances at the Biennale of Sydney, the National Young Writers Festival, Wollongong Writers Festival, Australian Poetry Slam, and the Bankstown Poetry Slam Olympics. They performed this story at Riverside Theatres in Parramatta.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For more information, visit www.queerstories.com.au and follow Queerstories on Facebook.The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia.To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In celebration of All The Best reaching 500 episodes, we're looking back into the archives and replaying episodes that, while recorded in years past, remain relevant today. This week we're bringing you ‘Vanishing Voices', an episode that first aired in 2020. Over centuries, language has played an important role in connecting people, especially minorities, to community and culture. For refugees and immigrants in a Western country or First Nations people dealing with the consequences of colonisation, work must be put in to avoid losing language. This eternal work is explored in the stories from this episode. ***************** Stories about how language is passed between generations, and people working to keep languages alive. ‘Speak The Language' by Wing Kuang In July, parents at Footscray Primary School were notified that from next year, the school would replace the 23-year-old Vietnamese Bilingual Program with Italian. The decision has raised concerns among parents and the local Vietnamese community, and they're fighting hard to keep the program going. Producer: Wing Kuang Supervising Producer: Evana Ho Music: ‘Checkered Blue', and ‘Basketliner' by Blue Dot Sessions ‘Bigger Than School Stuff' by Declan Furber Gillick Before invasion, this continent was home to about 250 languages, with different dialects within each. Many of those languages have been taken away systematically or stamped out by shame. In this story, playwright, artist and educator Declan Furber Gillick considers how people can turn that shame around. Written and performed by Declan Furber Gillick Sound design by Ryan Pemberton Music: ‘Slow Dial' and ‘A Simple Blur' by Blue Dot Sessions This story was published in ‘Guwayu – For All Times', a collection of First Nations poems commissioned by Red Room Poetry. You can purchase the collection and read this story with Arrernte translations at redroomcompany.org. All The Best credits: Executive Producer: Ryan Pemberton Victorian State Coordinator: Mell Chun Host: Maddy Macquine Episode mix and compile: Ryan Pemberton Community Coordinators: Chloe Gillespie and Danni Stewart SYN Community Coordinator: Lee Robinson Social Media Producers: Matilda Fay and Angela MoranSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this show, we play a selection of performances by poets from around the country for Red Room Poetry Month. Presented in collaboration with the Community Radio Network and Red Room Poetry. The poets presenting their work are: Maria TumarkinJazz MoneyEloise GrillsElfie ShiosakiDaniel BrowningSandra RenewGavin Yan GaoSisonke MsimangHuda the GoddessMunira Tabassum AhmedEsther OttowayDan HoganSteven Herrick

This week on 3CR Spoken Word, we play a selection of live performances from the Red Room Poetry Month Gala event at The Wheeler Centre last week.Featuring Laniyuk, Bebe Backhouse, Joelistics, and a special spoken word tribute to the recently passed Archie Roach. 

This month, RN Breakfast has been hearing from talented young voices across the country who are using their words to spark positive climate action. It's part of the new Poem Forest nature poetry prize, an initiative led by Red Room Poetry, which has seen thousands of seedlings planted in the critically endangered Western Sydney Dry Rainforest and Cumberland Plain Woodland in NSW.

This month, RN Breakfast has been hearing from some talented young voices across the country who are using their words to spark positive climate action. It's part of the new Poem Forest nature poetry prize, an initiative led by Red Room Poetry.

 7:00 Acknowledgement of Country 7:07 Michaela, from 3CR's radioactive show, spoke with Miree LeRoy about some recent activities in the campaign to stop Adani's Carmichael mine. Currently under construction on Wangan and Jagalingou country in the Galilee Basin, the mine will become Australia's largest coal mine if allowed to continue.Details of the online rally on Sunday 30 August at 6.30pm AEST at https://www.stopadani.com/respect_wangan_and_jagalingou_online  For other campaign websites mentioned in this interview see - https://www.stopadani.comhttps://www.marketforces.org.auhttps://frontlineaction.org 7:20 Alice speaks with Claire Hastie from the Long Covid Support Group UK about research into long Covid and the road forward. 7:37 Ella speaks with 3CR's Dean Lim about two major issues facing the sex work community at the moment: OnlyFans, a content subscription platform favoured by sex workers, has announced they will be banning sexually explicit content; andLegislation to decriminalise sex work and provide sex workers with standard workplace rights and protections will be introduced to the Victorian parliament by the end of the year. 7:57 Claudia speaks with Professor Brett Hayes from the University of NSW about the effects of lockdown on memory and cognitive capacity. 8:07 Australia is enjoying its first national poetry month this August. We hear from organisers at Red Room Poetry about why a dedicated poetry month is long overdue, and hear three readings from poets who have contributed. https://redroompoetry.org Songs Dionne Warwick- You're Gonna Need MeIchiko Aoba- PorcelainArthur Verocai- Na Boca Do Sol

Poetry Month, presented by Red Room Poetry, is a celebration of how poetry connects, entertains and educates. Red Room Poetry is partnering with RN this August to feature some of the commissioned poets and poems.

A selection of poems I've written over the years. 1'20" - I know nothing 4'43" - The club 10'00" - A pebble for your kingdom 15'33" - The man from Queensland For more details about Poetry Month 2021 visit Red Room Poetry. Most of the music is by Blue Dot Sessions. Contact Mike Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikewilliams_v  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikewilliams_v/  Website: https://mikewilliams.com.au  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Podcast contains a reading of Mark Tredinnick's, ‘Litany: an Elegy'. https://redroompoetry.org/poets/mark-tredinnick/litany-elegy/ (Published with permission from the publisher ‘Red Room Poetry') This audio adaptation is copyrighted, © James Laidler (Litpoetry) Poem Recital was by Mark Tredinnick and was recorded by Red Room Poetry. The following audio tracks used are licensed to Litpoetry through www.musicbed.com and include: 'You are Mine' (feat. Holly Maher) by Secret Nation, ‘Love You Well' by Secret Nation, ‘Fireflies' by Timbre, ‘Borderland Sorrows' by Slow Meadow, Floating on water (with Jackson Love) by Jesse Brown

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.Today's episode features Anne Marie Te Whiu & David Stavanger discussing Red Room Poetry's inaugural Poetry MonthToday on the show...Poetry Month is a showcase of the incredible wealth of poetic talent in this country and will be Featuring:30 in 30 - delivering daily, original text/video poems from some of Australia's best poetsPoetry Workshops - with incredible poetsLine Break - a weekly online poetry showFair Trade - conversations with First Nations poetsWant more great conversations with Australian authors?Discover this and many more conversations on Final Draft every week from 2ser.https://2ser.com/final-draft

This week I wanted to do something a little different for our book club. Usually I'm bringing you some kind of long form narrative (typically a novel) and opening up on my thoughts about how the particular story engages with issues or questions that get to the heart of our lives.I love these stories, they're immensely satisfying and I'll definitely be back with more soon.This week though I wanted to bring you a little poetry. Specifically I wanted to let everyone out there know about Poetry Month an initiative from Red Room Poetry.This is the inaugural poetry month and it really is a festival of poetic art spanning styles from the traditional, through hip hop and an array of voices from throughout the community.Poetry Month is organised and run by Red Room Poetry and it's designed to increase the profile of Australian Poets, Poetry and Publishers.I don't know about you but I've always loved poetry. Having said that, I haven't always made time for it in my life.Poetry has a way of demanding your attention, slapping you in the face with a line that makes you look at the world like you've been wearing blinkers (spoiler alert - you have).A collection I've been loving recently, though by no means underestimating as it sneaks up on me in strange ways, is Evelyn Araluen's Drop Bear. Throughout the collection Araluen chews up ideas and visions, cliches and tropes to show us this country in ways we never thought to look…In Index Australis, Araluen writes:No law against that, no laws for nothingIn the age of entitlementIn the decolonial DundeeAnd well may we say , we will decideWho and howWell may we not be lectured and wellMay we do it slowlyJust there in that stanza, Araluen skewers our political class and us for our reliance on either side for their moral high ground while they leave so many languishing.Evelyn Araluen joins poetry month as part of Fair Trade - First Nations poetic conversations, a series of conversations bringing together some of the world's leading first nations poets.Poetry Month will also be Featuring:30 in 30 - delivering daily, original text/video poems from some of Australia's best poetsPoetry Workshops - with poets such as Tony Birch & Hope OneLine Break - a weekly online poetry show Fair Trade - conversations with First Nations poetsAnother poet who'll be featuring as part of poetry month is Omar Sakr. His collection The Lost Arabs won amongst other accolades The Prime Minister's Literary Awards Poetry Prize. I often wonder if the PM reads the works that get his award. I feel like if he had read The Lost Arabs we might get a little more humility, more understanding and less bluster.One thing that scares me when I read poetry is that I might misunderstand, but then the poet always seems to leave room. Omar is an Arab Australian poet whose work addresses identities that are not my own, and yet when I read in his poem How to Destroy The Body Slowly:You. Every day for a hundred yearsIf you're so luckyLive with this ordinaryDivinity, live with this death as long as you can& waste not a single day on a rose.I hear something of the insecurity and the beauty that I struggle to find in life sometimes and that we can all discover when we read Omar's poems.If you're looking for more, well Poetry Month starts soon and the best part of all is it's online, so join in wherever you are.For more details check out https://redroompoetry.org/ and discover all the poetry events across the month....

‘Guwayu' is a Wiradjuri word meaning ‘still and yet and for all times'. Guwayu – For All Times is a groundbreaking collection of 63 poems from 36 First Nations poets in 12 First Nations languages. Commissioned by Red Room Poetry, this collection – 16 years in the making – is an exquisite expression of living First Nations culture, with the diversity of languages represented unprecedented in publishing. Hear from the remarkable poets and contributors to the anthology, Ellen van Neerven, Nardi Simpson, Kirli Saunders and Joel Davison, in conversation with ABC Radio National's Daniel Browning. Presented in partnership with Red Room Poetry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kirli Saunders is a proud Gunai Woman and award-winning international writer of poetry, plays and picture books. She is a teacher, cultural consultant and artist. In 2020, Kirli was named the NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year. Kirli created Poetry in First Languages, delivered by Red Room Poetry. Her debut picture book The Incredible Freedom Machines was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards and CBCA notables. Her poetry collection, Kindred was shortlisted for the ABIA 2020 Book Awards. Her verse novel, Bindi was the inaugural winner of the WA Premier's Book Awards and the Daisy Utemorrah Award. Kirli has been shortlisted for the Nakata Brophy prize in 2018 and 2020. She is an esteemed judge for the 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, QPF Val Vallis Award and Blake Poetry Prize. As a playwright, Kirli is co-creating Dead Horse Gap with Merrigong Theatre and South East Arts. Her first Solo play, Going Home has been supported by Playwriting Australia, and will take the stage in 2022. Kirli mentions Ali Cobby Eckermann's verse novel Ruby Moonlight, and you can listen to an interview with Aly on The Garret about Ruby Moonlight here. About The Garret Read the transcript of this interview at thegarretpodcast.com. The interview was recorded by Zoom, and we can't wait to start recording in person again soon. You can also follow The Garret on Twitter and Facebook, or follow our host Astrid Edwards on Twitter or Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gayle Kennedy is an award-winning writer, speaker and presenter and proud member of the Wongaiibon Clan of the Ngiyaampaa speaking Nation of south-west NSW. This  poem is her response to an exhibition of Carved Trees at the State Library of NSW. It is read by, her sister, Victoria Kennedy, also a proud member of the Wongaiibon Clan of the Ngiyaampaa speaking Nation of south-west NSW, an actor and health professional. First published by Red Room Poetry (redroomcompany.org). 

With NAIDOC week approaching we are revisiting Red Room Poetry's  Unlocked poetry and music workshops at Balund-a. This time we feature recordings from the NAIDOC week workshops and community celebration  in 2017. Balund-a is a diversionary program for young indigenous offenders situated on a beautiful working cattle property near Tabulam in northern NSW. Apart from regular indigenous mentors and facilitators Lionel Fogarty, Joe Geia and Lewis Walker we also hear from a member of staff at Balund-a. She outlines the purpose and philosophy behind the programs offered at Balund-a.