Many discussions around power took place over the project which were used to loosen up the pupils and inform the poetry - these included political power, the power of love, patriarchal power and the disadvantages/advantages of being a man or a woman.

A pupil wrote:

whilst another thought that women got away with things, had more rights and had a power in pregnancy that men didn't have.

Different forms of poetry were explored and developed - rhythmic, non-rhythmic, haiku, acrostic. Each pupil was also asked to write a line beginning with 'Give me the power to...'. At the beginning of the project these were mostly all based around Western notions of power but were rewritten on the last day to include many personal hopes, wishes and desires around: