Swan Lake

'Swan Lake' was commissioned as part of the Red Room Poetry education initiative, Papercuts, which begun in 2007 and involved numerous workshop series run by poets across dozens of Australian schools. Judith Bishop wrote this poem for Sunning Hill School students, with whom she worked to explore and respond to provocations from the Cabinet of Lost and Found learning resource in 2010.

Sunning Hill was the first juvenile justice education facility to be involved in Papercuts. You can read more about the experience - and view an accompanying student poem - via this article from the Sydney Morning Herald. The final results of the project were shared at a special collaborative reading event attended by students from Sunning Hill, Bankstown Girls' and Pymble Ladies' College on Monday 13th December, 2010.