Green Noise

Jean Sprackland is celebrated for her tactile, transformative poetry which makes the miraculous seem familiar and the domestic other-worldly. Her new collection is tuned to new and deeper frequencies. ''Green noise'' is the mid-frequency component of white noise - what some have called the background noise of the world - and these poems listen for what is audible, and available to be known and understood, and what is not. Each poem is an attempt at location - in time, in place, in language. Some enquire into the natural world and our human place in it, by investigating hidden worlds within worlds: oak-apples, aphid-farms, firewood teeming with small life. Others go in search of fragments of a mythic and often brutal past: the lost haunts of childhood, abandoned villages, scraps of shared history which are only ever partially remembered. A physical relic or a mark on the landscape seems briefly to offer a portal, where a sounding is taken from present to past and back again. Deeply engaged with the flux of the world, these poems are alert, precise and vividly memorable - listening to the ''machine of spring/with all your levers thrown to max'', ''hearing the long bones of the trees stretch and crack''.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Sprackland, Sprackland Jean
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781787330924
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-092-4
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 7 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)