Green Noise by Jean Sprackland Christine Marendon Whether it is about discovering

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Green Noise by Jean Sprackland Christine Marendon Whether it is about discoveringJean 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