Grass Notes is a highly crafted poetry collection. Subtle, rich and diverse in subject matter, Sarah Day's poems are linked by cadence and musicality. Time and transience form the sub-stratum of much of the book: the past from the perspective of the present, the present from the perspective of the past (View From a Roman Litter). The poems take into their scope geological time and the enigmatic nature of the present, inviting the reader to ask questions and share in her vividly rendered observations. Sarah Day has a distinctive voice.
Grass Notes is a highly crafted poetry collection. Subtle, rich and diverse in subject matter, Sarah Day's poems are linked by cadence and musicality. Time and transience form the sub-stratum of much of the book: the past from the perspective of the present, the present from the perspective of the past (View From a Roman Litter). The poems take into their scope geological time and the enigmatic nature of the present, inviting the reader to ask questions and share in her vividly rendered observations. Sarah Day has a distinctive voice.
(Her poems enable us) to capture the lost intensity of our own perceptions. (Robert Dessaix)
This collection moves from wide angle views of humanity orbiting a mundane star on the outer margins of the Milky Way (Observatory), to close-ups as intimate as the palm of a wombat soft as a child's with lines scored/ the line of fate, the line of the heart.
Sarah Day is clearly a poet who matters, one with the gift of being able to transform the world we know. (Veronica Brady)
