Let's Talk Peace Ballarat released a video of Megan J Riedl's three-part poem Fallout on the International Day of Peace last week.

The release came as Cr Belinda Coates' motion for council to resolve to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was defeated at a meeting on Wednesday.

Australia has not yet signed or ratified the treaty.

Let's Talk Peace co-convenor Madonna Quixley said she hoped Ms Riedl's poem would help keep the conversation about peace alive in Ballarat.

"There are people in Ballarat who really do want grassroots action on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons," she said.

Ms Reidl was originally asked to write the poem to read during a forum in January that celebrated the day nuclear weapons became illegal under international law.

She worked with Ballarat production company Green Eggs and Ham to create the video for the International Day of Peace.

Ms Riedl said she believed poetry could be used for activism. "I think it is a really interesting and special way for people to interact with topics that can be confronting," she said.

Ms Riedl said she had a moment in the weeks before she was due to complete the poem when she dropped a full glass jar of mayonnaise on her kitchen floor. It became a metaphor that is used throughout the poem.

The video was funded by a City of Ballarat grant and supported by Compassionate Ballarat and Ballarat Arts Alive.

Visit vimeo.com/609395954 to watch it.

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