Red Room's annual celebration returns to showcase the breadth of Australian poetry.

10 Jul 2025 9:00

Poetry Month is an initiative of Red Room Poetry, the only organisation in Australia that consistently commissions poets and produces live poetry events nationally.

This year’s program includes both in-person and online events as well as workshops.

• Finger Exercises for Poets with Dorianne Laux (US) presented with The Guardian
• Ecopoetic Voicing with Robert Sullivan presented with NZ National Poetry Day
• Youth Workshop: Poetic Intention with Sara Mansour

This year’s line-up of Poetry Month Ambassadors will be joined by a new Youth Ambassadors program to showcase and foster the next generation of Australian poetic talent. The four inaugural Poetry Month Youth Ambassadors will be announced online on 12 August in time for International Youth Day.

20 pub quiz literary questions – the Aussie version

Commissioned, paid and published by Red Room, 30in30 delivers new poetry, reflections and writing prompts each year to provide a snapshot of contemporary Australian poetry. The initiative features original commissions by the 2025 Poetry Ambassadors and Red Room Poetry Fellows, as well as some leading poets. 

Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian. She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025). Threads: @thuy_on123 Instagram: poemsbythuy

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