Melbourne poet Luke Beesley travelled to Coffs Harbor to work with the students of Bishop Druitt College on the Toilet Doors project, a resource developed by The Red Room Company that explores guerrilla poetry. As part of the workshop experience, Luke also composed a poem for the school, ‘An Attempt To Get Oats Into This Poem’, which is published on the Red Room website (or read in playlist above).

Students created new works of poetry through activities including 'blackout poems', where they remix an existing text, and the 'stars through a seive' excersise, which asks students to consider what would happen if they were to attempt to force the firmament through a collander...

View the 'blackout poems' Yr 7 students created.

View the 'blackout poems' Yr 10 student created.
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Part Two