summoning friends
(one two five)
celebrate those fugitive tones
~ Jessica Wilkinson, from ‘Music Room’
We’re pleased to announce the Red Room Poetry Fellowship shortlist for 2019.
This shortlist is a luminous reflection of the calibre of creative individuals that we’ve worked with over the past 16 years. A selection of their commissioned poems can be explored below.
Our 2019 Fellowship shortlised poets are:
- Richard James Allen
- Susan Bradley Smith
- Jeanine Leane
- Mark Tredinnick
- David Stavanger
- Michael Farrell
- Tricia Dearborn
- Maryam Azam
- Sarah Rice
- Caitlin Maling
- Jessica Wilkinson
A sincere thanks to all our poets for the time and energy invested in crafting considered applications. The panel has pored over these poetic aspirations and achievements at length.
The Red Room Poetry Fellow will be announced 3 April 2019.
Poets
Poems |
Blue Carbon
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Initial Impressions of a Pakistani-Australian in London
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The Fire & the River & the City & the Bush
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Here/Not here
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The lifeguard is taxed
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Components
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My father's portrait
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Bodyland
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What the Gargoyle Said
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The ocean's lullaby
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Grace at the Edges
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Dream Management as a Product Placement Poem
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Fun Fact
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My Mind as a Dutch Tilt
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Sonnet Descending the Staircase
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Bush Philosophy: Rivers and Pools
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Domestic Time Travellers
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...Patsy Cline in the desert
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Hills Hoist Philosophy
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/ Under Lovely Curtains / Maya
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Anangu is pronounced arn-ung-oo
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On waking in the bed of a novelist
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The Moment Keeper
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