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writhing Rainbow Serpent
emerald eucalypts, opal skies
It holds the stories of sorrow and hope
that Aunty told me
~ Lily from 'Friendship Holder' Year 8, Reddam House (NSW)

Sparking creativity through poems about treasured, curious, everyday, extraordinary, interplanetary, or talismanic objects.

From its conception in 2011 until 2020, Red Room Poetry Object was Australasia’s largest free poetry-writing competition for young people and their teachers. It aimed to spark creativity by inviting poems about treasured, curious, everyday, extraordinary, interplanetary, or talismanic objects..

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