Green Noise by Jean Sprackland Christine Marendon This anthology of poems and

This anthology of poems and prose

chronicler of the quotidian

The Long Take is one of the most remarkable – and unclassifiable – books of recent years

focusing our attention on the joys of family and art

At the centre of the book is the slow detonation of grief after her brother’s death but her work focuses on the whole variety of human experience: pleasure

Green Noise by Jean Sprackland Christine Marendon This anthology of poems andJean 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