Green Noise
$34.71
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
18 October 2018
Summary
The new collection from the winner of the Costa Poetry Award
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787330924 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787330923 |
| Author: | Jean Sprackland |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 18 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 90g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 7mm |
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Critics Review
Sprackland likes to read the sign language of the natural world… These poems are exact and well made, their lightness of touch often given drive by a fierce vocabulary.
Sprackland likes to read the sign language of the natural world… These poems are exact and well made, their lightness of touch often given drive by a fierce vocabulary. – Peter Scupham * Literary Review *
Jean Sprackland’s Green Noise has a tangy, earthy smell about it. She is a snooper on the natural world, a conspiratorial poet who upturns things to find out what’s odd about them and, almost incidentally, explores her own lostness as she goes. – Michael Glover * The Tablet *
About The Author
Jean Sprackland
Jean Sprackland is the author of five poetry collections, including Tilt, which won the 2007 Costa Poetry Award. She has also published two works of non-fiction, Strands- A Year of Discoveries on the Beach, which won the 2012 Portico Prize, and These Silent Mansions- A Life in Graveyards in 2020. Her forthcoming titles are Night Vision, a non-fiction exploration of darkness, in November 2025, and Goyle, Chert, Mire, her latest poetry collection, in April 2026.
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