Red Room Poetry ‘makes poetry highly visible, vibrant, relevant and accessible, especially to those who face the greatest barriers to creative opportunities.’ They aim to reflect the diversity of Australian voices. Each year Red Room invites students, teachers and commissioned poets to create poems based on objects. There are extensive learning resources for students from preschool to year 12, and over 18,000 student-created poems online.
Structure and features
Students can do these things:
- explore an extensive range of poems from diverse Australian voices
- learn about literary and poetic technique by looking at a collection of short animations that are linked to example poems and poets' reflections on their technique
- read, enjoy, connect with and analyse poetry by other young Australian poets
- take part in the 2020 Poetry Object Australia competition – submissions close 22 May 2020.
For students and families
Students can read the poems, use them as models for their own poetry, and look at competition opportunities.
For teachers
Teachers can direct students to poems, model texts, definitions of poetic techniques and examples. They also can buy the 'poems to share ll' resource.
Teacher notes
Focus areas
- poetry
- literature
- literary technique
- critique
- intertextuality.
Curriculum links
- English.
Assessment
Formative and summative tasks as directed by teacher.
