Red Lobster is a Melbourne Channel 31 program produced through Northern Access Television (NAT), a member group of C31 Melbourne. It is a program about Poetry, featuring performances by a wide range of poets, published and unpublished, from all walks of life. It started going to air in early April 2003 and was on air weekly until March 2007. After a break of a year it came back from March 2008 until the end of November 2008. It is currently is off air, with the intention of returning to air in June 2010.

The program was started by me and fellow Poet Michael Ward, with help from Ted Ward and later Martin Downey.

The program was generally filmed at reading in various venues around the city. There are around thirty regular poetry readings, monthly, fortnightly and weekly, that take place in various venues all over Melbourne. Some of the readings featured in past episodes have included venues such as the Dan Poetry sessions at the O'Connell, the Spinning Room Readings at ET’s Hotel Prahran, the Passionate Tongues readings in Brunswick, amongst others.

The program was generally filmed in one or two shoots per month, with material for several programs being gained from each shoot. In the past reaction to the filming of the program from the local poetry community has been very positive. Some of the highlights of the program have included the Regular “Dan Poetry Sessions”, The annual MPU panel discussion and the Montsalvat and Overload Poetry Festivals.

Though the program is about poetry some prose readings, music, and even a play, have been included from time to time. We have also occasionally included interviews with poets in the program.

Past episodes available as streaming video in windows media format, on this site along with the details of which poets were in each episode.