Digital Recordings of Planet Forest

Listen to the 12 Poems for 12 Days of COP30, as narrated by Lisa Coleman, Nic Jeune, Caroline Pegg and Kim Squirrell

Day One

Imagine

Read by writer and visual artist, Kim Squirrell

Still Life, 2025. Courtesy of Corinna Wagner

Day Two

Cloud Forest

Read by Nic Jeune, award-winning film producer, first assistant director, and senior lecturer

‘Portrait of a Rainforest’, by Katherine Boland

Day Three

Ocean Forest

Read by actress and singer, Lisa Coleman

‘Beneath the Canopy’. Image courtesy of Madi Bowden-Parry

Day Four

Seed

Read by actor and writer Caroline Pegg

‘Pirucha in the Earth’. Image courtesy of Emilia Khan, Argentina

Day Five

Canoe

Read by Nic Jeune, award-winning film producer, first assistant director, and senior lecturer

‘My Father Makes a Canoe’, 2025. Image courtesy of Corinna Wagner

Day Six

Last One Standing

Read by actress and writer, Caroline Pegg

‘Ghost Gums’. Image courtesy of Katherine Boland

Day Seven

Creatures

Read by Kim Squirrell, Lisa Coleman, Nic Jeune and Caroline Peg

Day Eight

Making

Read by actress and singer, Lisa Coleman

‘Incendium Australis No.5’. Image courtesty of Katherine Boland

Day Nine

Lessons from the Soil

Read by actress and writer, Caroline Pegg

Photographic documentation of a slice of the Sycamore Gap tree for close-range photogrammetry by the Digital Humanities Lab, University of Exeter, 2025

Day Ten

Tree

Read by Nic Jeune, award-winning film producer, first assistant director, and senior lecturer

‘Canopy No1, 2025’. Image courtesy of Katherine Boland

Day Eleven

Symphony

Read by actress and singer, Lisa Coleman

Courtesy of Eugenia Rojo, Ham Khan and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Day Twelve

So Let Us Speak

Read by writer and visual artist, Kim Squirrell

‘Holding on, Carefully’ 2025. Image courtesy of Corinna Wagner