A Line in the Sand: 20 Years of Red Room Poetry Collection

An anthology spanning 20 years, 80+ projects and 1200+ commissioned poets with a body of original poetic work unlike any other literary organisation.

Featuring 80 poems that are highly representative of both contemporary poetry as a form as well as drawing on a multitude of voices across the history of Red Room from a number of projects including Poem Forest, Mad Poetry, Writing in Resistance and Poetry in First Languages.

The collection showcases some of our leading poets and writers, marginalised voices, First Nation poets, musicians, spoken word and hip hop artists, emerging young writers and public figures, including Archie Roach, Bruce Pascoe, Ali Cobby Eckerman, Dr Karl, Grace Tame and more.