Celebrate Poetry Month with these inspiring and heartwarming anthologies…
“Home is not where you are from,
It is where you belong.
Some of us travel the whole world to find it.
Others, find it in a person”
– Beau Taplin The Explorers
Poetry Month (1–31 August) is a new initiative presented by Red Room Poetry to increase the profile of Australian poetry, poets and publishers.
Celebrate Poetry Month with these inspiring, heartwarming and thought provoking anthologies in our collection.
Worlds of You : Poetry & Prose – Beau Taplin
From Australia’s social-media sensation. Think of Beau Taplin as capturing the essence of love and heartbreak, challenges and paradoxes, yearning and fulfilment, and attaching that to magical, majestic life. Beautiful, inspiring and empowering, Beau Taplin’s poems sweep readers away on a journey of emotion. When you need advice, wisdom, something for your soul, Beau offers insight and balm.
I Love Poetry – Michael Farrell
Michael Farrell is the most adventurous and experimental of contemporary Australian poets, continually pushing the boundaries of what poetry can do. Highly regarded for the playful rhythms and comic, gestural qualities of his poetry, his poems set language, syntax and punctuation in motion. His eye for metaphor and the unexpected combination, for punning and the letter in both its verbal and visual aspects gives his poetry its unique humour and energy.
Pillow Thoughts – Courtney Peppernell
Make a cup of tea and let yourself feel. Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most.
When the World Didn’t End : Poems – Caroline Kaufman
Kaufman explores the shock, wonder, and beauty of an uncertain future. The poems provide a vivid account of trying to find a path forward while reckoning with the pain of the past, embracing imperfection, and unlearning the language of self-criticism.
Soft Thorns– Bridgett Devoue
“The poetry living within these pages tells stories of love, heartbreak, freedom, oppression, sexual assault, sexism, hope and humanity. Our darkest times are where we grow the most, so in this book, I share mine, and together, we learn how to heal.
Keen to become the next Shakespeare or Beau Taplin? Red Room Poetry has some very cool online workshops coming up, check them out!
LinkedIn Learning has short courses to get you started writing, typesetting and reading poetry. Free with your Library membership.