Green Noise by Jean Sprackland Kate Behrens firmly rooted in the natural

firmly rooted in the natural world seen through the eyes of a keen intelligence

longing and guilt

'A brave and unsettling collection

a boy steps tentatively from the shadows onto a strobe-lit dancefloor

and the reader hears poetry that sings without use of a single poetic device of sound or form

Green Noise by Jean Sprackland Kate Behrens firmly rooted in the naturalJean 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