![]() ‘Two substantial novellas – novels by any other name – make up this volume. ![]() ‘An original and absorbing version of a cryptic life.’ - Sunday Telegraph ‘Tentatively, delicately and poignantly fills in the person behind the myth.’ - Observer But what is playful is also meaningful: Skinner is concerned with capturing these fragments of our language and culture, our natural landscape – in other words, the things we risk losing – and giving them back to us beautifully reformed.’ - Tamar Yoseloff Praise for Previous Work ‘Richard Skinner’s White Noise Machine is a glorious mix tape of a collection, bold and brilliant in its mash-ups of pop songs and poets as various as Muldoon and Yeats. ![]() It’s all part of the pleasure afforded by this truly remarkable collection.’ - Peter Didsbury These range from bright-eyed vocalic transpositions to wholesale melding of poems by different authors. ‘There’s a tremendous kinetic energy in these poems, evidenced in the wide variety of linguistic stratagems he deploys to express the wonder and joy of things. White Noise Machine is striking, profound and fresh as the cherry tree that “explodes in white noise every spring”.’ - Sarah Westcott ‘Imbued with the spirits of Peter Gabriel, Agnes Martin and MacNeice, amongst others, these are poems of formal skill, playfully pressing up against formal and aleatory constraints and re-making themselves anew. A white noise machine is a device that produces a noise that calms the listener, which in many cases sounds like a rushing waterfall or wind blowing through trees, and other serene or nature-like sounds and Skinner has used this idea to try to create this effect in many of the poems. Where Richard Skinner’s previous pamphlets, Invisible Sun and Dream into Play, were primarily concerned with the play of light and playfulness respectively, White Noise Machine is mainly concerned with sound. ![]()
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