Voice of Trees (High Park, Toronto, CANADA)

19 ECHOES

Welcome to High Park sound walk. By following the route on the Echoes app, you will hear a selection of original poems read aloud by the poets themselves.
Each poem represents a different location within High Park and encourages visitors to discover spots for quiet contemplation. Inspired by the monumental trees and surrounding landscape, these poems serve as a celebration of the unique features of the area. Voice of Trees High Park is a collaboration between Giovanna Iorio, Michael Rothenberg, Robert Priest and Larry Sawyer.

Poets included in the sound walk:

Bill Bissett- A Tree

Phil Hall- Toward A Blacker Ardour

Mark Goldstein- My Ravine

Larry Sawyer-Memory Suit

Lina Ramona Vitkauskas- Taiga

Geoff Bouvier-Those Old Familiar Ditties

Dale Smith- Grass Seeds

Charlie Petch-Daughter of Geppetto Part 4

Jennifer Hosein- Exile

Lillian Allen- I Saw A Perfect Tree

Robert Priest- A Tree Will Take The Heat For You

John Robert Colombo-Memory of Falling from a Tree

Lawrence Bayne- Tree

Patrick Connors - The Path

Michael Holmes- St. Marys Deacon Blues

Honey Novick- High Park

Marty Smith- The tree and me by onecloud

Clifton Joseph - Not poem

Giovanna Iorio - Sound Artist (UK)

I am a sound artist and I live in UK. I am the founder of the Poetry Sound Library, an archive that preserves the voices of poets from past and present. I research ways to link poetry to the landscape. My sound walks are in UK and around the world. Among my projects there is "Voice of Trees, a sound walk to discover the voices of the most important poets from the Poetry Sound Library: monumental trees or parks receive a poet's voice and they become part of an inspiring sound installation. Website & Info: https://thevoiceoftrees.weebly.com/ https://poetrysoundlibrary.weebly.com/