The Bird Cage

'The Bird Cage' was commissioned as part of Red Room Poetry's Unlocked program, held at NSW's Dillwynia Correctional Centre in 2012. Staff and residents were visited by poets Johanna Featherstone, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Gareth Jenkins, who engaged participants in a series of poetry workshops.

Identification was a major topic of discussion throughout the workshops, as poets and participants explored the importance of finding or developing an identity, especially for Indigenous Australians, and the role that poetry can play in this process. As with all Unlocked projects, the final outcome was a print anthology.