About

Our Story

Poetry Sound Library is a dream: we wanted to hear the poets' voices and we wanted to see where they come from. The map collects voices and poems in the original language. Poems can be replaced but only ONE POEM at a time is allowed on the map. The voice of living poets from all around the world is accessible by clicking on the marker on the map. The yellow marker is for living poets the blue marker is a parallel project to recuperate digitalised voices of non living poets of the XX and XXI century.This is a no-profit project and no money is requested to be part of the map.

Behind Poetry Sound Library there is a dreamer: Italian poet and sound artist Giovanna Iorio.
Based in London, UK she is happy to give you more info about the Poetry Sound Library and the project.
For more info about Poetry Sound Library please write to: giovannaiorio96@gmail.com
The Project is supported by individuals and Associations.

#AmbassadorsOfVoice
To become an Ambassador you will need to spread the word, contact poets and send or ask the poets to send the audio to Poetry Sound Library

SOUND Library is a non profit project; the only purpose is to promote poetry and to share the rich patrimony of voices of poetry. All the rights of the poems on the maps belong to each author and we are happy to amend or replace any entry that does not satisfy the author.
We have many collaborators and welcome more.

To partecipate, collaborate, join the project or propose a partnership please write to:
poetrysoundlibrary@gmail.com

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUBMIT YOUR POEM? CLICK HERE

T H E T E A M

GIOVANNA IORIO, Founder of Poetry Sound Library (London, UK)

ALAN BATES Co-founder (London, UK)

From February 2020 PSL partnerships with Fondazione ALFONSO GATTO, ITALY

Collaborators: Videos & Music: Lucio Lazzaruolo Maintanance: Diaolin (Giuliano Natali)

Poetry Sound Library Map from Giovanna Iorio on Vimeo.

We must preserve the voice, return to the purity of sound, remove the noise from the words, awaken the primordial sound of the wind, give back to poetry the power of the voice

Giovanna Iorio

Poetry Sound Library Map by Giovanna Iorio is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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