TreeTalk
During the heatwave of July 2017, Ariel Gordon spent two days sitting on the patio of downtown Winnipeg's Tallest Poppy, writing snippets of poems which she hung from the boulevard tree using paper and string. Passersby were invited to TreeTalk too - their secrets / one-liners / meditations / haiku were also hung from the tree. By the end of the weekend, the elm had a second temporary canopy of leaves: 234 poems, 111 written by Gordon, 107 written by passersby, and 16 from other sources.Gordon has assembled all these voices into a long/found poem that asks: what does it mean to live in the urban forest? What does it mean to be in relationship with each other but also with the more-than-human? The book also includes pen and ink illustrations by Winnipeg artist Natalie Baird.Since 2017, Gordon has also hung poems in trees at the Sage Hill Poetry Experience in Muenster, SK, the Prairie Gate Literary Festival in Morris, MN, and at the Winnipeg Folk Festival as part of the Prairie Outdoor Exhibition. Stay tuned for more TreeTalk-ing!
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Ariel Gordon
Ariel Gordon est une poétesse et éditrice basée à Winnipeg (Treaty 1), au Canada. Spécialiste de la **poésie urbaine et naturaliste**, elle a remporté le **Lansdowne Prize for Poetry** pour ses premiers recueils. Son œuvre explore les liens entre l’humain et son environnement, avec une attention particulière pour les forêts, les champignons et les paysages urbains. Elle anime aussi des projets littéraires collaboratifs et est une figure active de la scène poétique canadienne.
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