Green Noise by Jean Sprackland women Opening with new poems written

Opening with new poems written during his 80s – since his Costa-shortlisted collection Standard Midland (2010) – the book’s second section is a gathering of uncollected poems mainly written during the 1960s

and wrestling with desire

working as a mountaineer for the British Antarctic Survey

‘The verbal gymnastics of a north country Spike Milligan coupled with the comic timing of Eric Morecambe

from the 'Foreword'

Green Noise by Jean Sprackland women Opening with new poems writtenJean 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