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1 y separately published work icon MAD Poetry David Stavanger (editor), Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2020 21429622 2020 website poetry

'We are full of worlds that can't be contained by a pill. MAD Poetry is an initiative that originated in the Illawarra, evolving in 2019 into workshop pilots in Port Kembla and Wollongong supported by the Mental Health Commission of NSW. 2020 sees MAD Poetry find a home at Red Room Poetry coordinated by David Stavanger.

'The key focus is on creating a safe writing space for emerging voices with a lived/living experience of mental health issues to express how they see the world, where these poets can define themselves through their creativity not their diagnosis, and explore by pen and page their experience of illness, institutions, recovery, self-care, and beyond.'

Source: Red Room Company.
1 y separately published work icon Writing Water Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2020 21427050 2020 website poetry

'Red Room Poetry’s Writing Water: Rain, River, Reef project commissioned celebrated poets – Eunice Andrada, Tony Birch, Luke Davies and Georgina Reid – and invited public submissions that looked below the surface and reimagined our essential relationships with water. From the slow-moving waters of TarraWarra in Victoria to the extinction of corals and conversations with wetlands in Western Australia, poems are provocations to honour, remember and interrogate our responsibilities with water in a time of environmental change.'

Source: Red Room Company.
1 y separately published work icon Writing Water : Rain River Reef Eunice Andrada (editor), Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2020 21427012 2020 anthology poetry

'From rain, rivers and reefs to tidal pools and coastal shelves, the Writing Water chapbook is a bespoke collection of 24 poems, written by commissioned and public poets about their relationship with our earth's most precious resource, water. Discover new poems by Eunice Andrada, Tony Birch, Luke Davies, Georgina Reid, JV Birch, Esther Ottaway and others.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon In Your Hands The Red Room Company , Sydney : The Red Room Company , 2020 21414272 2020 anthology poetry 'What is a poet without an audience? What is a new book without hands to hold it up to the light? The outbreak of COVID-19 has meant the cancellation of live poetry events and writing festivals Australia wide, resulting in many poets and their publishers losing income and key opportunities to showcase new work, not to mention build readerships and celebrate the words beyond print.
 
'To offer a little relief in response to this, Red Room Poetry and Oranges & Sardines Foundation have collaborated to create In Your Hands – a free digital collection featuring 80 poems by poets whose recent, current or forthcoming release has been directly affected by the closure of live events. All poets are paid for their contribution to In Your Hands and the collection encourages audiences to buy copies of the books.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Poetry in First Languages Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2018-2020 21420485 2018 website poetry

Delivered by Red Room Poetry and developed by Gunai poet Kirli Saunders, Poetry in First Languages (PIFL) celebrates, shares and preserves knowledge of First Nations languages and culture through poetry, music, dance and art. PIFL aims to support students to find strength in their cultural identities through language learning and connecting to Country, Culture and Community with the intention of enhancing overall wellbeing and knowledge.

In addition to published poems (indexed below), the series also including workshops in classrooms and the development of curriculum resources.
1 y separately published work icon New Shoots Anthology : Poems Inspired by Plants Ella Skilbeck-Porter (editor), Surry Hills : The Red Room Company , 2017 11376206 2017 anthology poetry

'Created by The Red Room Company, New Shoots, is a poetic partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Sydney Olympic Park and Bundanon Trust. The project celebrates and cultivates poems inspired by plants and place.

'Coinciding with the 200th birthday of the Royal Botanic Garden, poets Mark Tredinnick, Eileen Chong and Eric Avery have been commissioned to create "poetic pathways" now installed throughout the Garden. At Sydney Olympic Park, poet Lorna Munro is creating poems that will be embedded into the Badu Mangroves boardwalk. Linked creative learning resources also support a series of poetic workshops across these sites and others in the future.' (Source : Red Room Company website)
1 y separately published work icon Unlocked : Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre, 2016 Johanna Featherstone , Gareth Sion Jenkins , Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2016 15782952 2016 anthology poetry

Poetry by inmates of Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre, workshopped in July and August 2016.
1 1 y separately published work icon Unlocked : Balund-a, 2016 Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2016 15780649 2016 anthology poetry

The result of a week-long residential program at Balund-a Diversionary Program, Tabulum, New South Wales, facilitated by Lionel Fogarty and Joe Geia.
1 y separately published work icon Unlocked : John Morony, 2015 Gareth Sion Jenkins , Candy Royalle , Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2015 15783005 2015 anthology poetry

Poetry by inmates of John Morony Correctional Centre, workshopped on 31 August 2015.
1 y separately published work icon Unlocked : The Compulsory Drug Treatment Correctional Centre 2015 Compulsory Drug Treatment Correctional Centre, 2015 Andri Christofides (editor), Johanna Featherstone , Nick Bryant-Smith , Surry Hills : The Red Room Company , 2015 11995471 2015 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Unlocked : South Coast Correctional Centre, 2014 Johanna Featherstone , Nick Bryant-Smith , Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2014 15782351 2014 anthology poetry

A second anthology of poetry from inmates at the South Coast Correctional Centre, Nowra.
1 y separately published work icon Unlocked : Mid North Coast Correctional Centre Johanna Featherstone , Nick Bryant-Smith , Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2014 15782308 2014 anthology poetry

Poetry by inmates of the Mid North Coast Correctional Centre in Kempsey.
1 y separately published work icon Unlocked : Dillwynia Correctional Centre, 2014 Johanna Featherstone , Nick Bryant-Smith , Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2014 15782209 2014 anthology poetry

The third anthology from inmates at Dillwynia Correctional Centre.
1 1 y separately published work icon Unlocked : Nowra Unlocked : South Coast Correctional Centre Joel Scott (editor), Johanna Featherstone , Lionel Fogarty , Nick Bryant-Smith , Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2013 6517873 2013 anthology poetry

'The South Coast Correctional Centre is located near Nowra, a little more than two hours south of Sydney.The centre houses uup to 600 inmates, mostly men. In early October 2012 The Red Room Company's Artistic Director Johanna Featherstone headed to Nowra with poets Lionel Fogarty and Nick Bryant-Smith to run intensive poetry workshops over three days. Like other 2012 Unlocked projects, The South Coast Correctional Centre workshops focused on Indigenous inmates, in response to the deeply troubling over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prisons.' (Source: Redroom Company website)
1 y separately published work icon Unlocked : Balund-a Joel Scott (editor), Johanna Featherstone , Lionel Fogarty , Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2013 6516280 2013 anthology poetry

Poems by inmates at Balund-a Diversionary Program, Tabulam, New South Wales.
1 y separately published work icon Unlocked : The Compulsory Drug Treatment Correctional Centre, 2013 Nick Bryant-Smith , Johanna Featherstone , Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2013 15780887 2013 anthology poetry

Poems by inmates at the Compulsory Drug Treatment Correctional Centre.
1 y separately published work icon The Disappearing Sydney : The Red Room Company , 2012 Z1884581 2012 anthology poetry multimedia (taught in 1 units)

The Disappearing is an innovative new [free] app for iPhone, iPad and Android that (literally) explores poetry and place. Transform the world around you with new poems by some of Australia's finest poets, who've created a poetic map charting traces, fragmentary histories, impressions and memories.

Beginning with a collection of over 100 poems about Sydney, The Disappearing will stretch across Australia during 2012. Along with previously unpublished poetry, The Disappearing features exclusive videos of readings and interviews with poets. Users can upload their own poems to The Disappearing, preserving ideas, emotions and experiences about their own environment that vanish over time (publisher blurb http://redroomcompany.org/projects/disappearing/ sighted 5/9/2012).
1 y separately published work icon First Light : Clubs, Societies and Poetry Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2012 8213214 2012 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Unlocked : Dillwynia Johanna Featherstone , Gareth Sion Jenkins , Ali Cobby Eckermann , Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2012 15780836 2012 anthology poetry

Poems by Indigenous inmates at Dillwynia Correctional Centre.
1 y separately published work icon Clubs and Societies Darlinghurst : The Red Room Company , 2011 Z1906323 2011 anthology website poetry Clubs & Societies was The Red Room Company's major project for 2011, pairing contemporary poets with clubs and societies from across Australia.
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